About
Interstate '76 is a 1997 vehicular combat game developed and published by Activision, set in an alternate 1976 where the 1973 oil crisis never ended, leading civilians to arm their cars for survival amid widespread lawlessness. Interstate Outlaws is a vehicular deathmatch game built with the Crystal Space engine, CEL, and ODE physics, written in C++ and Python by a team of college students from the US, UK, and Australia. It offers six vehicles with individual weapon and gear setups, two maps, six mountable weapons, and AI opponents the developers describe as "aggressive but stupid." The readme calls it still under heavy development, and it's released under the GPL license.
Getting started
On Linux, launching the included startup script drops the player into the map from mid-air; hosting a multiplayer game requires running a separate lobby server component. A Windows launch path is planned but not yet implemented.
Known limitations
- feature: Sound is not implemented.
- feature: Pedestrian mode is not yet available.
- feature: Physics modeling is incomplete.
- feature: Vehicle models lack functioning doors, hoods, and trunks.
- feature: Map editor is not yet available.
Additional notes
- Planned features
- The developers list many planned but not-yet-implemented features, including sound, a pedestrian mode, more detailed vehicle damage modeling, and a map editor.