Idea Info Name: Mach X Index: Primary Category: Racing Submitted: 9/28/2002 5:19:05 AM Written By: DarkLink

This racer will be unlike anything you've ever seen before...It's a futurstic racer, following the footsteps of F-Zero and Wipeout but take it to the next level.

Gameplay: The object of the game is to obviously beat your opponents to the finish line, but it's not as easy as it sounds. There are powerups ranging from missiles, to accelleration boosts to wipeout hazards and decelleration hazards. The weapons vary from decreasing HP, Speed or Accelleration. There will also be plenty of jumps. Each Racer has their own set of attributes. HP, Speed, Accelleration etc. Each are affected during the race. Your racer will show wear and tear, your engines chemicals become more volatile, your HP decreases making you weaker, your accelleration slows down as well as your speed. If for some reason your racer is destroyed during the race, if you have equipped your ship properly you can have one of the special backups...

A hover-jet, Chemical blaster or a Repair Mechanism. If you have equipped the Hover-Jet, you can press a trigger button that will allow you to release the shell of your racer and out will come a Hover-Jet, a much smaller racer that cannot take much damage but it will save you from death and can hover over cars from time to time.

The Chemical Blaster will take the volatile chemicals accumulated in the engine and exhaust, and will shoot them at other racers causing their steering to be wild and they will lose some HP as well as poison the vehicle for a short time. Normally an accumulation of volatile chemicals would destroy your vehicle.

The Repair Mechanism will surround you with a shield and small mechanical arms will attempt to repair your ship. You will be safe from attack until the shield runs out or it's hp is used up from being blasted from enemy racers.

By winning races you can improve your car by adding more Speed, HP, Accelleration or Armor. You can also put on spikes so that nearby cars can't hit you and can shoot into Ice Thrower ports to block them, but a flame thrower will melt the spikes. An Ice thrower will freeze enemy flamethrowers. These are all added by buying them by winning races. You can only have one at a time but you can switch at level select

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Level Setup: The Levels will be set up strategically. There will be hazards if you don't think quick. If you dont make a sharp turn, you'll drive into spikes. If you aren't evasive enough you will be engulfed in flames at parts in the level. Ice blocks will shoot at you during parts of the level. It's a mix between wipeout and f-zero (sorta).

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Music: The music will be of either some form of quick rock or quick rock-techno, depending on the atmosphere of the level.

I definately want some feedback on this game idea because I thought most of it up at 1:30am and I'm tired lol

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Well, thats about it for now, I'm not sure what else Im missing lol