Rubber and Lead

[h1] Clunky interface. Bad controls. Plays like a free flash game from early 2010. Terrible. [/h1]

A good homage to the old Autoduel/Car Wars games. Worth the buck if you are looking for a simplistic arcade style game to while away some odd hours. There's a lot of missing polish with this but it's very reminiscent of the games that were put out in the 90's and it's not bad for the current price.

So bad

https://youtu.be/5kD3Y8BLo48 No longer functional on modern PCs / Windows reduces any reason to buy this title.

Like other reviewers said, it's an updated version of the old school game Autoduel, and mostly faithful, including Arena with tiers, types of cars and weapons, cities and map, courier jobs and salvage, and simple plot. Pros: fun, easy to learn, simple controls, limited options lets you jump right into the action, runs between towns are short. Cons: reputation system very bad, punishing gameplay, no save scumming, weapon animations are bad, sprite collisions unstable. I love Autoduel! I could recommend Rubber and Lead, even on sale, if two things were fixed. 1 - sprite (car) collisions were fixed. I often drove right through building walls but crashed into other cars that were two car lengths away. And 2, most egregiously, the reputation system frequently makes you delete your character to start over. Your reputation lowers upon losing a car/courier run/arena, but the arena tiers and courier jobs are limited to certain reputations. it's super easy to fall into a situation where your reputation is too low to do anything in game, because you can't travel between cities unless you have a job (unlike the original Autoduel which had two ways to travel between sities without a cou…

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