Switchcars

Switchcars is a PC game released by Altfuture on March 5, 2016, in its early access phase, then on April 30, 2021, the game was fully released.

Gameplay
The objective of this game is to escape to the year 2055 while switching vehicles according to the terrain and scenery while being chased by aliens.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Extremely challenging and fast-paced gameplay in which the player must escape to the year 2055 while being pursued by aliens.
 * 2) A wide variety of sceneries like a racetrack, city, forest, ski resort, airfield, cave, and even outer space scenery.
 * 3) The retro-looking 16-bit graphics are awesome.
 * 4) The concept of switching vehicles is unique and awesome. The player can switch vehicles according to the terrain and scenery. For example in cities and racetracks, land vehicles are suitable, watercrafts to travel across the water, and on railroad tracks, the player can use trains.
 * 5) There are lots of powerups in this game:
 * 6) *Helmet: The player can give a second chance when the player loses all of his health. Usually can be obtained in construction vehicles.
 * 7) *Armor: The player has double health and the vehicle equipped with is fully armored.
 * 8) *Health: The player restores their health and heals current animals the player has. Can be obtained in scattered places or in an ambulance.
 * 9) *Fuel Station/Repair Station/Charging Station: The player can refuel, repair, and recharge vehicles the player has.
 * 10) *Nitrous: The player can use nitrous to increase acceleration of the vehicle. Can be obtained in modified tuner cars.
 * 11) *Off-road Wheels: The vehicle driven by the player can be applied with off-road wheels to increase the traction while driving off-road.
 * 12) *Caterpillar Wheels: The vehicle driven by the player can be applied with caterpillar wheels to increase the traction while driving off-road similar to off-road wheels.
 * 13) *Grappling Hook: The player can use the grappling hook to boost the player's speed. Some vehicles can come with the grappling hook, and the player also wields a grappling hook from the start.
 * 14) *Horn: The player can honk to stun the vehicles.
 * 15) *Siren: Emergency vehicles like police cars, ambulances and fire trucks come with sirens. The player can use this to swerve the traffic.
 * 16) *Machine Gun/Rockets: Weaponized vehicles like police boats and tanks come with machine guns/rockets. The player can use this to destroy vehicles.
 * 17) *Fuel Engine/Electric Motor: Makes your vehicle faster with a cost of your vehicle's fuel.
 * 18) *Rocket Thruster: Works the same as Nitrous, but makes your vehicle 5 times faster than using it.
 * 19) *Road AI/Driver: Makes your vehicle drive by itself. Can be found on futuristic cars and luxury cars.
 * 20) *Hovercraft Skirt: Makes your vehicle drivable in any surface.
 * 21) *Alien Decoy: Repaints your vehicle to wind off aliens.
 * 22) *By collecting some of these powerups, you can actually pimp your vehicle with it and make it into an all-going-yet-unstoppable-mile-runner machine, as these powerups were equipped until your vehicle has been swapped with another vehicle, not in a limited time.
 * 23) Saving the best for last, because this game has MORE than 1,300 vehicles and has a extremely huge of variety that no other game has, such as luxury cars, classic cars, compact cars, crossovers, muscle cars, sports cars, supercars, concept cars, go-karts, rally cars, LMP race cars, touring cars, tuner cars, F1 race cars, dragster funny cars, top fuel dragsters, electric supercars, sport bikes, scooters, ATVs, tuktuks, choppers, police cars, taxis, ambulances, fire trucks, minivans, vans, pickup trucks, SUVs, limousines, semi trucks, commercial trucks, cement trucks, dump trucks, crane trucks, garbage trucks, monster trucks, tractors, tanks, HMMVs, single deck buses, double deck buses, bulldozers, forklifts, dumpers, skid steer loaders, steam shovels, drillers, combine harvesters, snowmobiles, snow plows, baggage handlers, airline pushback tractors, hot air balloons, passenger planes, cargo planes, hydroplanes, fighter jets, heavy-lift helicopters, military helicopters, amphibious helicopters, ferries, speedboats, tugboats, jet skies, oil tankers, police boats, hovercrafts, sea tractors, buggies, a unicycle, the 1971 Boeing LEV-001 lunar car, golf carts, a monocycle, jet powered vehicles, bullet trains, monorails, diesel multiple units, speeders, hovertrains, electric trains, electric multiple units, the 1771 Cugnot Fardier (the very first vehicle in the history and the only video game which features this vehicle as a playable vehicle) and even featuring animals like elephants, cows, camels, horses, zebras, and alien younglings. All of those compiled into the game and its size were pretty small and friendly for even a mid-end mobile device, which is 115.54 megabytes.
 * 24) *On version 1.1, you can also create your own vehicles.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) The game can be brutally hard to the point it can be a rage game like mh:crappygames:Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Ghosts 'n Goblins, mh:crappygames:Unfair Mario, Syobon Action or Getting Over It. Worst of all, if you lose, you must start the game all the way from the beginning. These are the reasons.
 * 2) *Switching between sceneries can be quite unexpectable and unpredictable as you would drive a vehicle from the previous scenery. For example, if you were driving a bullet train from a railway scenery and suddenly, the game prepares to switch to a racetrack scenery (indicated with terrain icons and arrows on the right side of the screen), so you need to get out immediately and find (or grapple) a vehicle that suits if available and possible.
 * 3) *The aliens, they were able to jump, stomp, and drift on the ground, causing major damage to your vehicle and yourself. Worse, they depend on your speed too, so even if you're driving a souped up LMP car, they are still on your rear view mirror, stomping you to eternity.

Trivia

 * The 1771 Cugnot Fardier along with the 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen and the 1886 Mercedes-Benz Daimler Motor Carriage from Gran Turismo 4 are the only drivable vehicles from 19th century and prior in videogames.
 * This game holds the world record of 1,300 vehicles in the official videogame history (if not counting with the mod Ultimate Car Pack from Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now with a whopping amount of 1647 vehicles which is 347 more than the amount of vehicles in Switchcars) with Gran Turismo 6 being the second game with most amount of vehicles with a roster of 1,201.

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