Zone Raiders

Zone Raiders is something of a cross between WipeOut and Quarantine, in which you are a 'Raider' piloting your very own customisable hovercar through various futuristic locations, scavenging for useful gizmos and bits of code. Ho-hum. With a beefy machine it runs better than Sony's lamentable PC conversion of WipeOut (in VGA mode, at any rate), but the gameplay is decidedly weak. But worst of all, although the 3D engine is impressively smooth, the graphics themselves are garish and messy to look at, and the enemy craft designs are remarkably uninspiring. It does have a network option, but I can't see anybody really bothering. Yet another CD to chuck on the hearth when the firewood runs out and you're too cold to care about poisonous fumes.