Dukes Of Hazzard
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was a popular 80’s television series and, in fact, it is 
still shown regularly in the ‘states. Over on this side of the pond unless you 
are over 30 you may not remember it at all. Nevertheless, the series did 
contain plenty of entertaining moments that have now found their way into a 
computer game for Playstation and PC. 

Subtitled ‘Racing For Home’ the game mainly involves a whole heap of dashing 
around country roads while usually attempting to escape from the police. Not 
that the two heroes, Bo and Luke, are bad guys, far from it. It’s just they 
always seemed to be prime suspects whenever anything went wrong in Hazzard 
County and spent most of their time hunting down the real culprits to clear 
their name. One thing that they had in their favour was a pretty fast car, the 
General Lee, and, as you might expect, the game is all about drivin’ fast and 
hard.  

This isn’t a driving game in the traditional sense in that it follows the 
plotline from an episode of the series. The story moves through 27 mission-
based levels wound around a bank robbery for which Bo and Luke are wrongfully 
accused. Solving their dilemma means lots of foot-down screaming around the 
roads of Hazzard County in pursuit of the real felons so there are car chases 
galore to contend with and not just in the General Lee. 

Players get the chance to drive the cars of other key characters from the 
series such as, Daisy's Jeep, Boss Hogg's Cadillac, and Cooter's tow truck in 
the single-player game and even more are opened up in multiplayer mode. 

Sometimes the mission objectives are to ram another car off the road or avoid 
being shoved into a ditch by the chasing cop car. In other missions you may be 
on a deadline to make a delivery or attempting to rescue Daisy from kidnappers
 in which case your efforts will be against the clock. 

Even taking a wrong turning can result in mission failure so you’ll need to 
listen to you co-driver, Luke, who manages to point you in the right direction
 without ever ending a word in ‘G’, quite difficult when you’re talkin’ about
 drivin’, turnin’ and stopin’. In fact I think the only thing he says ending
 in 'G' is "Dang it, Bo".

This ‘hick-speak’ isn’t at all annoyin’ though and after a while you’ll just 
blank it out. In any case you are usually too busy leaping ramps, jumping over
 swollen rivers, avoiding oncoming cars and trucks and trying to drive through
 the power-ups that are scattered by the wayside. These could be repair kits,
 bonus time, nitro boosts, or offensive weapons such as oil slicks, glue or 
even sticks of dynamite.  

As I mentioned earlier, this is a different type of racing game but one that’s
 really a lot of fun to play. .