If you've ever dreamed of being a stuntman, but don't have the guts to do it, then StuntMANIA Pro may be right up your street.

StuntMANIA Pro is a fast paced 3D car stunt driving game, where you get to perform daring tricks and stunts in purpose built stunt tracks. There are nine stunt cars to choose from ranging from buggies to 4x4's. You can choose to play either against the clock, challenge the computer or just go mental on your own driving around like a lunatic pulling 360s in the air. Plus there are a load more game mode options such as ""Bubble Bonus" and "Trick Master" where you are set several different challenges.

StuntMANIA Pro gets full marks for choice because in addition to this, you get 11 different tracks plus a night time environment which makes a difficult game almost impossible. To add a bit of interest, there aren't only ramps and ravines to cross but each level has bonuses and hidden challenges including power-ups that can give you extra speed, jumping ability and teleport you to other parts of the track.

The graphics in StuntMANIA Pro are excellent, especially the vehicles which are illustrated in fantastic detail. There's plenty of tracks to keep you going although it's shame there is no race mode where you can take on other opponents in a race around the tracks.

StuntMANIA Pro is an excellent driving game that will appeal to all ages and with plenty of choice to maintain your interest for more than just a few plays.

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MaxDriving is not an action game. The racing part sees you using a stick shift to choose your speed at various points on the track. The race then takes place and you see the result, which depends on your car stats, and your race plan.

The presentation is all very slick and, unusually for this type of resource management game, there are ample instructions and help. MaxDriving is very much geared towards boys, with some pretty stereotyped illustrations of women.

Some players might find the enforced waiting irritating - you might have to wait 25 minutes until a race starts, and if you miss it, you have to wait again. While MaxDriving features none of the high-octane action of racing games, for fans of online management, it's not bad.

MaxDriving is a well presented online management game, but it fails to really grasp the excitement of real life street racing

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Once registered and signed in, you have to give yourself a street name, choose a car, and then you're off. The Fast & The Furious is essentially a statistics based role playing game, with street racing stuck on top. You race to win points, so you can tune up your car, and beat better opponents.

The focus is on tuning, not racing, as this isn't an action game. Drag races are animated, but you can choose to click past them and just get the result. It's a bit like Need For Speed, but without the driving.

As you win The Fast & The Furious races you increase your skill and so on, but you also increase Police attention. Once that's over 50%, you are likely to be thrown in to jail unless you wait for the heat to cool off. What this means is that you cannot play The Fast & The Furious constantly, clicking through races to increase your XP and stats, as the game forces you to wait. There are premium options that allow you to spend your way out of the waiting game, however.

If you enjoy this type of numbers game, there appears to be a reasonably large community to interact with, but nothing really stands out in The Fast & The Furious to make it extra special. The lack of real action makes it pretty dull, unless you get addicted to the mindless RPG grinding.

The Fast & The Furious is a relatively simple online RPG, based around the exiting sport of street racing, but without any of the adrenaline rushes.

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There are few decent driving games on the Mac and even fewer that are free. Racer is definitely a decent attempt at creating the latter, although I came across more than a few problems with it.

Racer is a cross-platform car simulation project which is high on realism, employing accurate car movements and controls to maximum effect. The fact that it's open source means that what you download are only the basics - to add more cars and tracks you'll have to go to the contents page where you will find links to several sites providing more cars and tracks.

When you start Racer, it's best to go to 'Options' and then 'Controls' to configure how you'd like to control your car. Click on the aspect you want to change the control for (such as accelerate and brake) and then press the button you'd like to use for it. When you start a race, you're able to configure how many cars you'd like to race against, which track, which car and how many tracks. However, you have to download these options from the contents page and upload them to Racer. It would have been nice if the developer had included at least a few examples to give a better taste of what the game can do. And besides, when I tried to select 16 cars to race against, the game simply crashed.

Because the controls are designed to be as realistic as possible, handling your car is quite tough. To get started, get your revs up and then shift into first gear. The problem is that the gear indicator isn't very clear, so as you're racing it's hard to know what gear you're in. However, the sounds and controls give a feeling of realism and the graphics aren't bad at all for a free racing application.

The good thing about Racer is that it is open source and the sky is the limit for those wanting to add to it. The bad is that you have to visit different sites to add bits onto it, the controls take some getting used to, and it is still prone to crashes.

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One of my favorite games as a kid was Stunt Car Racer on the Commodore Amiga. It wasn't the polygon graphics that won me over but the playability that got me addicted.

Crash3D widget doesn't quite beat that classic game in my biased eyes but it's still a fun driving game that you can play on your Dashboard to kill a bit of time. Crash3D sees you take control of a stunt car as you race around a desert landscape hitting as many ramps and loop-the-loops as possible in an attempt to get your name on the high score table. The fun thing is, you're competing against competitors from around the world who can log onto the Crash3D Server and register their high score.

Points are awarded for how much time you spend in the air, how many hoops you jump through and how many loop-the-loops you manage to perform in the time allotted (which is about 10 minutes). Although the splash screen at start-up says you have to use W, A, S and D to control the car, I found the arrow keys worked fine with the spacebar used for turbo boost.

If you're like me, you'll probably start by just hitting turbo boost and flying around the desert crashing into rocks but beware because the boost is limited to about 10 seconds of continuous driving before it needs five seconds to reload.

The stunts are fun at first although once you've been round the circuit a few times, you soon get bored. It would have been nice to have had a few more scenarios to choose from, or a few more more original stunts. Also, your car is virtually indestructible which makes it a bit too easy, and if it flips over and you get stuck, you can press 'R' to reset it.

All in all however, Crash3D is a handy widget for racing fans to waste a few minutes or indulge in their stunt car fantasies.

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Driven to succeed, Lightning McQueen the hotshot rookie race-car is headed across country to take on the Piston Cup Championship. But along the way, McQueen gets sidetracked in the sleepy town of Radiator Springs�where he gets to know some of the most offbeat characters around. And where they help him realize there are more important things than trophies and fame. So fasten your seat belt and get ready for wildly fast and funny adventures with all your favorite characters from the Disney/Pixar blockbuster �Cars.�

Features:

• Burn rubber in more than 30 races and mini-games
• Explore the open world of Radiator Springs
• Speed to the finish line with more than 10 playable characters
• Make your friends eat your dust in multiplayer mode
• Enjoy the voices of Paul Newman, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, Larry the Cable Guy and more

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One of the funnest board games ever is now available on Mac.

For anyone who's been gone from this planet in the last 100 years, let me quickly reexplain what Monopoly is. The goal isn't complicated: buy as many properties as you can to become the richest player. You'll have to take turns with other players circling the game board, buying property and paying out rent whenever you fall on someone else's property. The game gets more exciting as you start adding buildings, charging higher rent and ultimately buying back others' properties. Because you throw dice to advance on the board, the game includes a certain element of chance but it also involves negotiation and good interaction with others.

Anyways, you get it: Monopoly is a great game to play with friends and family. The single player mode is also very enjoyable, but it lacks all the laughs and quips of multiplayer. The graphics and animations of the game are particularly well done and emphasize the classic touch of the original Monopoly. You'll also get to play with the original tokens like the dog, race car or boot. The history pane on the right of the interface will also let you know all the last moves carried out by all players.

Great fun whether alone or in multiplayer, Monopoly for Mac presents a beautiful game board with all the classic touches and elements of the original game.

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The year is 1957 and a fleet of flying saucers from Planet X have come to Earth. These saucers are under the control of the evil Brain Aliens who are abducting helpless human beings and taking them away to strange alien worlds to become slaves of The Giant Brain. Luckily for the human race there exist the Otto Matics, robots who police the galaxy in name of all that is good and decent.

You are Otto Matic, the robot who is given the job of saving Earth from the clutches of The Giant Brain from Planet X. You must rescue as many humans as you can while defeating the Brain Aliens and all of their evil followers. Your mission will take you to strange and fantastic alien worlds which are often treacherous and will require Otto to perform amazing feats.

Your rocket ship will take you to each of the planets, starting with Earth. While on each planet you must save as many humans as you can, but be careful because the Brain Aliens will try to abduct the humans before you can save them. When you save humans, they are teleported to your rocket ship. To escape the planet you must also collect rocket fuel. Once The Giant Brain has been defeated and peace restored to the galaxy, you will return to Earth with your human cargo where they will be freed.

In Otto Matic...

• 10 levels on strange alien planets!
• Battle 25 different alien creatures!
• Attack with 7 different types of space-age weapons
• Fight off giant radioactive killer vegetables!
• Ski behind giant metal beasts on a sea of toxic ooze!
• Ride soap bubbles across noxious lakes of slimy goo!
• Get shot out of a cannon!
• Smash alien clowns in hovercraft bumper-cars!
• Drink radioactive potions to grow to 50ft tall!
• Ride a zip-line to escape mutant radioactive robots!
• Pilot a flying saucer and lay waste to an alien fortress!
• Battle the Giant Brain from Planet X

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The prospect of playing a racing game almost always sounds exciting, however Adrenalin Racing felt more of a nightmare than anything. The graphics are very weak and the background on racetracks looks like it's made out of cardboard. There are many different car models to choose from, but they all look very clunky. We were also extremely disappoint by the playability. Moving your car on the race track feels more like if you were pushing a cardboard box around and it's difficult to negotiate corners properly.

It's a shame that the graphics and playability are so poor because the different game modes (arcade, adrenaline, ghost and tournament) seem promising. The camera movement, while it follows your car on the track is probably the only other thing that we liked in Adrenalin Racing.

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