Driver Club: Highway Racing

Driver Club: Highway Racing is a traffic racer, a style of driving game where the main obstacle is not the track but the other vehicles on it. You drive down busy highways, cut between lanes, and overtake cars to clear each section as fast as possible. A separate Race mode adds a strong, faster rival on top of the traffic, so you are racing someone while dodging everyone else. Winning pays out money, which buys new cars and upgrades, and you can also change the paint color and the rims. The environments vary, and a leaderboard tracks the best drivers.

It works well in a browser because a single run is short and the controls are the familiar WASD or arrow keys, with C to switch the camera and P to pause. The game is landscape and keyboard-first, so it is most at home on a desktop or laptop. Each session has a clear loop: race, earn, upgrade, and race again in a quicker car. The realistic visuals and sound give it more weight than a typical arcade racer, although sound is not needed to play. Players who crash often will notice their upgrades making a real difference over time.

It suits players who like quick driving sessions, reflex-based overtaking, and collecting and upgrading cars. It fits with endless traffic racers, highway driving games, and arcade racers with a progression system. Players who want circuit racing with racing lines and lap times will find its focus is traffic dodging instead. The choice between clearing sections and facing a rival in Race mode gives it two distinct moods, one about pure speed through traffic and one about beating a specific opponent.

via Playgama