Tag: racing

• [Private Wheels] Need for Speed II (1997)

  

  After the significant success of the debut, the sophomore game in the series, Need for Speed II, was released in 1997 to a somewhat mixed reception. Several technical aspects of the game can be conceived as problematic from the gameplay perspective, but I’d argue that the game’s primary weak point is of symbolic nature. Need…

  Boris Bezdar

  01.05.2023

  C:\Games\Simulator

  critique, games, gaming, need for speed, need for speed 2, pc games, racing, retrogaming, review, videogames

• [Private Wheels] The Need for Speed (1994)

  

  Atomized individualism, hierarchal status, Darwinian competition, and petty rebellion—the symbolic realm of a private vehicle, a direct metaphor for neoliberalism. And like neoliberalism, a car is also a prison. But I’m straying away—a car as a prison is less relevant for this text because believe it or not, this article is about videogames.

  Boris Bezdar

  25.04.2023

  C:\Games\Simulator

  critique, dos games, gaming, need for speed, pc games, private vehicles, racing, retrogaming, videogames