Viper Racing

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Viper Racing
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Developer(s) Monster Games
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
Producer(s) Owen Justice
Designer(s) Owen Justice
Dave Pollatsek
Programmer(s) Richard Garcia
Dave Broske
Artist(s) Troy Harder
Brian McCabe
Platform(s) Windows
Release
Genre(s) Sim racing
Mode(s) Single player, up to 8 players in multi-player

Viper Racing is a Dodge-licensed 3D car racing game, released in 1998 on the Windows PC platform. It was the first commercially released game developed by Monster Games.

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Development

The game was developed in two years with a team of six people. [2]

Reception

The game received favorable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [3]

The game was a finalist for Computer Games Strategy Plus ' 1998 "Racing Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Motocross Madness . The staff called the former "a fabulously rich game experience, with an excellent career mode and more customization options than you could find at a real Dodge dealer." [15]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Features". Gaming Entertainment Monthly. Archived from the original on December 6, 1998. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Viper Racing for PC". GameRankings . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
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