Highway Persuit(freeware game)

[Ace Pace]

And now for something completly differant:

Highway persuit, a completly addictive freeware game, based on an old game. Retro gamers, this where you come in.

First off, the idea is simple, you are a James Bond type superhero, in an awesome shiny silver car with a pair of front facing machineguns.
Using your trusty keyboard, navigate this ultra high speed highway, dodging innocent civilian cars, taking down several types of enemy cars, dodging helicopters through several terrain types.

I'm not sure what makes this game addictive, maybe its the actully good gameplay mechanics(simple but complex at the same time), maybe its the AI that seems to work together even as they do amazingly weird things, maybe its just that I LOVE playing this game for distance.

The graphics are pretty good, some very good use of basic shaders, the car models are fine(except for one enemy car), dust pileups in the desert portion are fairly realistic and the sense of speed works.
Audio comes into play here aswell, the distortion as you pass another car, the whirr of a helicopter, all work together. The music is agreeably clichy but can easily be disabled and an audio app running in the background dosn't interfere.

In the end, you are faced with your score and distance traveled, a rather nice payoff. Its just fun competing with friends to longest distance or best kill/distance ratio.
At the end, its a simple game, completly 15-30 minutes of gaming garunteed unless you are addicted like me.

[Bounty]

Isn't that just Spy Hunter

[Ace Pace]

Isn't that just Spy Hunter

Yes, though the name slipped my mind. But its a fun game regardless of its orgins.