One notable change is that the World Championship, which is the main career mode, does not use a 'division' system like the previous games. It's the combination of these points that determine the winner in race events. There is much emphasis on gripping opponents, which is also encouraged to the player by the commentator. An arcade-style checkpoint and timer has also been introduced. There is notably also no lapping system in race events, with races only finished when the all opponents have been wrecked or the player itself has. There are 12 drivers in any single player event (thus 11 opponents). The one or two group(s) opposing the player's race reversed, meaning they will drive towards the player's group which allows for head-on collisions to be executed. Uniquely in this game, in a race, drivers are split into two or three groups, each starting at a different part of the track. Race events in Destruction Derby 64 have a particular focus on head-on collisions. The game is set further apart with its very distinct racing system. They are reasonably detailed, although the texture detail suffers due to the Nintendo 64's smaller texture memory. There is a set of eight tracks and four bowls, all in various different environments. The game finally arrived after some 18 months time in late 1999.ĭestruction Derby 64 features brighter graphics and a larger variety of content compared to PlayStation's Destruction Derby 2. DD64 was developed at the Intermetrics (which owned Looking Glass Studio) studio in Redmond, Washington State, USA. Looking Glass Studios took development duties, a developer that achieved popularity at the time for its critically acclaimed PC game Thief: The Dark Project. It took time until Psygnosis managed to grant THQ the Nintendo exclusive to publish it under license.

and Formula 1 98 were cancelled), Destruction Derby 64 was still far from ready. Īlthough by the end of the year these games were released (N64 versions of O.D.T. and Formula 1 98, and coming a week after the announcement of Wipeout 64. Destruction Derby 64 started development around April 1998 as reported by British magazine Computer and Video Games, claiming that Psygnosis (a division of Sony Computer Entertainment) was working on a Destruction Derby title for Nintendo 64 along with O.D.T.

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