Mashed: Drive to Survive

Mashed: Drive to Survive is an action-packed top-down arcade-racer. On 13 tracks, you need all your driving skills to survive and make it to the finish as the first with one of the four different cars available (from slow ones to really fast ones).

The heart of the single-player mode (besides the quick battle against the AI) are the bronze, silver, and gold challenges for every track you need to complete to play freely. Each challenge is one of the seven game modes available in Mashed. From normal race-events over battles where you need to kill all your enemies before they do to the ultimate survival mode.

To make things easier, there are nine different power-ups and weapons scattered on the tracks which you can pick up. From simple oil slicks to deadly mortars, there's everything you need to kick the enemy drivers out of the race. Of course, they can also choose from the equipment. As you can only survive a few hits, you need to make sure they can't use them on you.

The real heart of Mashed is the split-screen multiplayer mode which you can play with up to four players on one Xbox. If you don't find four friends, you can fill in the missing spots with bots or just leave them open. The game mode is like CTF with cars, where the goal is to hold the flag and drive as far away from the enemies as possible to get a point.

Additional challenges come from helicopters flying over the track to launch missile attacks on the cars still racing. This feature can be deactivated when you set up the race. With its fast-paced gameplay and competitive multiplayer mode, Mashed: Drive to Survive is perfect for fans of racing games.