City Racing (Gametop.com)

City Racing is a freeware 3D racing game released by GameTop.com in 2008. It is one of very popular games of GameTop.com with 5.7 million downloads[1].

Description
You're a stranger in the town trying to be the best racer in the city. You can either race to the top, buy and upgrade cars and deal with cops, or work as a taxi driver to make yourself some extra bucks.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Graphics are great for a low budget freeware game released in 2008. And it still looks pretty decent in 2020.
 * 2) * Day/night cycle also helps the game in graphic aspect.
 * 3) While array of drivable cars are narrow, the fact they can get damaged, customized and upgraded neutralizes this a bit.
 * 4) Police AI is decent for a late-2000s freeware game, arguably at around the level of (or better than) 3D era GTA games.
 * 5) An active city environment, you can see pedestrians in city, again a rare feature for an old freeware game.
 * 6) Offers an average playtime of 3 or 4 hours, four or eight times of an average freeware game (from the same era).
 * 7) The ability of working as a taxi driver is nice, especially for a game like City Racing.
 * 8) You don't have to get a beefy computer to run this game. An average Windows XP computer can run this game with zero lag.
 * 9) * GameTop.com advertises you can run this game on Windows 98.[1] (factcheck needed)
 * 10) In-game soundtrack is decent.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There are noticeable grammar/spelling errors in this game.
 * 2) Acceleration physics is quite unrealistic. A non-damaged stock Clio NSX (an in-game car vehicle that player starts the game with) struggles to reach 100 kilometres per hour. Cars also turn slowly, which is kinda realistic but it ruins the handling aspect at a major extent.
 * 3) In-game car models are cheesy and a bit cartoony when looked at close.
 * 4) GameTop.com or EA Group doesn't seem like they ever bothered improving this game or adding a new content, which means the game lost a very big potential.
 * 5) Cars' engine sound doesn't fit into the game.
 * 6) When you kill a pedestrian a pop-up appears, like day/night transition of Castlevanie 2: Symphony Of The Night.
 * 7) Pedestrians tend to glitch out in some instances. They also have no skin, they are "black as shadow" with words of Stan Burdman.