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Re-Volt

Windows - 1999

In the world of toy publishing, few toys can match the speed of Toy-Volt's success with its line of remote-controlled (R/C) cars.

Acclaim brought the fun of R/C racing to Re-Volt, which boasts great gameplay and high replayability despite some AI quirks. The game lets you control over 28 Toy-Volt's R/C cars (plus 5 secret ones) and race them on 13 mostly inventive tracks.

To begin with, the level design in Re-Volt is fantastic, featuring realism rarely seen before in this genre. My favorite level, 'Toys in the Hood,' has you racing around the streets, avoiding parked cars, taking shortcuts through open doors and across sidewalks. Other tracks allow you to race inside a department store, a famous cruise liner, and a wild west town. Most tracks have two different routes built in, and winning any of the four Championships allows you to unlock new tracks and cars and replay the tracks in both reverse and mirror modes.

There is even a "stunt arena" that is great for practice, since it requires more and more dexterity to reach each of the twenty pickups that are placed at the top of various jumps, loops, and half-pipes. And when you get bored of the included tracks, you can dabble with the included track editor to make your own.

The selection of cars is excellent, boasting cars that are different in more ways than just their looks. The cars are split into two categories (Electric, and Glow) and are then divided between Rookie, Amateur, Advanced, Semi-Pro, and Pro, based mainly on speed. Each car has its own weight, acceleration, and top speed. Although you can pick up weapons and power-ups on the tracks similar to arcade games, Re-Volt is much more realistic than arcade racers. The cars behave very realistically, and the physics engine is excellent. But if you prefer arcade-style racing over realism, you can change the car behavior mode from "Simulation" to the very forgiving "Junior RC."

With excellent graphics, great gameplay, and a longevity that is much higher than most racing games, Re-Volt is a fun game that will please racers of all ages. Although the computer AI can use some help (I pass computer-controlled cars that become amusingly "stuck" in scenery on more than one occasion), the game offers enough beauty and brains to satisfy everyone - including a few multiplayer modes.

Highly recommended!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Info 24 Mar. 2026

Remember people, always check the links to external sites - mainly PCGamingWiki coz you can get essential information on how to get old gems running and about community patches and enhancement mods. Here the one you definitely need is "Modern remake" - points to the RVGL project, which is vastly superior to the recompiled version on Steam, and offers Linux and Android versions (granted playing on a small phone screen is always funny)

0
MR SIEROWSKI 10 Jun. 2025

GOG have destroyed the game, it no longer works properly on windows98 or XP

1
MultiGeek 03 Feb. 2025

One of two games that I can love endlessly despite possible shortcomings, but I don’t want and won’t pay 6 bucks for a 99 year game, only physical media. Thanks to the respected people from gog who bought the rights to the game and made it paid(sarcasm)

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MultiGeek 03 Feb. 2025

One of two games that I can endlessly give back and despite possible shortcomings I will still forgive and love it, but I don’t want and won’t pay 6 bucks for a game 99 years, only for physical media. Thanks to the dear people from gog for buying the rights to the game and making it paid

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DAVID PEÑA 22 Aug. 2023

ME ENCANTA ESTE JUEGO, MODALIDAD Y ACROBACIA, ESTILO DE LOS COCHE Y JUGABILIDAD, VENGO DESDE EL PS1, AHORA LO JUEGO EN LA PC Y POR FIN LA VERSION COMPLETA EN FORMATO ISO GRACIAS

21-08-2023 ♥

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gabb 24 Mar. 2022

its not working i downloads all the thing but nothing

0
Lou Rider 30 Jul. 2021

Me encanta es juego. Que suerte volver a encontrarlo.

1
Roastbeef 08 Feb. 2021

Good, but it's not an easy game, especially singleplayer cups mode, you get 3 retries and have to come the top 3 of any race, if you place 4th even once out of the 4 races you lose and have to start over again, which is fine if you have the time and patience. CPU controlled cars are hard to compete with (think Mario Kart) even on easy and on slow mode.

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Rakty 29 Nov. 2020

I LOVE this game, this game is the best racing game I've ever played!! INSTALL

-2
Franco 16 Nov. 2020

Amazing game!

4
Jack Rainer 12 Nov. 2020
Top comment

For everyone who wants to play it, go to https://www.revoltrace.net/index.php There's a working fully patched versions https://www.revoltrace.net/downloads.php
Also, you can find fans of the game to play online, people still playing it in multiplayer

7
Aleyna 20 Apr. 2020

Süper bir oyun

1
PIV 15 Apr. 2020

Hope it works :-)

1
Wagon 21 Feb. 2020

nara-nara nira nara nara nara- nara nara nina la la la

0
Andrew 30 Nov. 2019

Amazing old school game, used to play it a lot and never got borred of )) Whenever I was feeling lonely and sad this game brought me back to having joy ... thanks

1
Alptekin 14 Nov. 2019

Hala oynanacak seviyede, dönemin harika bir oyunu.

-1
zaid 25 Jun. 2019

very good game

2
Flow 05 Mar. 2019

Great game. but after I install the 1.1 patch it says "game is already running" after I start the game? Have I done anything wrong?

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RVGL 01 Mar. 2019
Top comment

There is a OpenGL remake of this game available which runs out of the box on Windows 10. It take a bit of doing to get the Dreamcast exculsive tracks but it's well worth it. You can get it here: https://rvgl.re-volt.io

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MM 23 Oct. 2018

Best game for fun and race

1
safran 25 Sep. 2018

it was such an amazing game, lots of fun, unpredictable scenarios and stuff on the way.

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Unknown 10 Jun. 2018

I don't have sound :(
But this game is still awesome !!

0
Gjammer 03 Apr. 2018

I remember this game very well. I played it continually but lost the disc. When I tried to make a new disc after downloading, the files were successfully copied but verification failed three times. A real pity since I loved this game. Trying to navigate the cars around large objects was loads of fun. The museum was my favorite track.

2
XD24 12 Mar. 2018

Best game for fun and race...

3
mafon2 05 Jun. 2017
Top comment

One of the best arcade racing games.

9

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Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
Windows 534 KB English English
Patch Patch 2
Patch 1.10
Windows 627 KB English English
Unofficial Patch v1.2 for modern systems
Windows 646 KB English English

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