1999 · Racing
Killer Loop
The game takes place in a future where gasoline powered vehicles and paved roads have been replaced with electromagnetic vehicles and metal highways. Such vehicles are used for intense racing where vehicles could drive on bending, twisting tracks. The player has the option to have automatic or manual assistance on using their vehicle's magnets to drive on higher areas. The player could also use power-ups against other opponents picked up from the tracks. Race tracks included Moscow, Mars, Hawaii, the Himalayas, Needle Rock and the Orbital Wharf space station.
- Released
- 31 October 1999
- Platforms
- ArcadeDreamcastPlayStationWindows
- Genres
- Racing
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Crave Entertainment
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Country
- Germany
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
About
Killer Loop (also known as MagForce Racing for Dreamcast) is a futuristic racing game released in 1999-2000. It was developed by VCC Entertainment and published by Crave Entertainment.
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Development
Some of the developers who worked on this game (including Tammo 'kb' Hinrichs), whose names appear in the default high scores, went on to form the Farbrausch group of the Demoscene.
Reception
The PC version of Killer Loop received favourable reviews, while the PlayStation version and MagForce Racing received mixed reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen gave both console versions negative reviews in two separate issues, saying of the PlayStation version: "Six tracks and six vehicles spread over four classes with no two-player mode – you do the math. Although a competent effort, this is the definition of a placeholder title, and you've seen it all before" (#61, January 2000); and later of MagForce Racing: "There's nothing here you haven't seen done before and done better" (#69, September 2000).
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Ported as
- MagForce Racing
- Built on it
- MagForce Racing
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Platform libraries
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Genres
- Racing gamesList › 1990s
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