Speed Punks

Icons marked with question marks are arrayed on the race tracks; they give weapons (pick-ups) to a player's kart if the vehicle passes over them. Pick-ups, such as missiles and slime, allow racers to hit others with the objects, causing them to spin and lose control. A kart that obtains the stealth mode pick-up is temporarily invulnerable to attack. Lines of speed boost tokens are found on the tracks. By running through these tokens, a kart collects them and fills cells on its speed boost bar. The player can use accumulated speed boost to increase speed at a faster rate than under normal acceleration.

Speed Punks

Speed Freaks features nine original characters from which the player can choose to compete as or against. Six characters are available immediately at the start of the game and three further characters can be unlocked by beating them in a challenge. Each character's kart has different capabilities with differing levels of top speed, acceleration and handling.

Weapon boxes marked with question marks are arrayed on the race tracks; they give weapons (pick-ups) to a player's kart if the vehicle passes through them. Pick-ups, such as missiles and slime, allow racers to attack their opponents in order to overtake them. A player that obtains an invisibility pick-up is temporarily invulnerable to attack, as well as being invisible and able to steal speed boost energy from opponents. The player can store up to three of the same type of pick-up at a time.

Lines of speed boost tokens are found on the tracks. By running through these tokens, the player collects them and fills the cells on the speed boost bar. The player can use accumulated tokens to perform a speed boost for a higher rate of speed than under normal acceleration. On every track, there is a single special speed boost token, which fills the speed boost bar completely. Players can also perform a powerskidding manueuver to go through corners more effectively than with regular steering.

The tracks are bright and colorful and feature sunny sea shores, futuristic cities, bright green meadows and lots of waterfalls. Throughout the tracks there are weapon power-ups, boost tokens and speed-up strips. The boost tokens fill up an energy bar which can be used for extra speed. The weapon power-ups can be used to defeat the rivals on the track, including homing missiles, remote bombs and stealth mode.

The game involves racing around a variety of tracks while using several weapons; including items that make the racer's speed increase, missiles, and slime. The game was developed by Funcom and released in Europe in September 15, 1999 and in North America on March 31, 2000. 041b061a72