''The Fury'' is a racing video game. It was developed by Creative Reality and published by Martech Games. It was released for the Amstrad CPC,

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, and ZX Spectrum in 1988. The box art was illustrated by Rodney Matthews. The game received mixed to negative reviews.

Plot

Loading screen ''The Fury'' is a racing game set in the year 2045 AD on the artificial planet Devs. Racing on a gutter shaped track orbiting the planet, racers race for money. The races are broadcast by The Network, a television station that also sponsor the races and train the racers. During these races, some of the drivers disappear while racing at top speed. One driver, after reappearing, explained it by saying "It's The Fury..."

Gameplay

The player must qualify in each race through different objectives. Qualifications of races range from speed trials, to killing a certain amount of "Nids", or young unqualified racers. Another type of race is the Tag Races, a race version of tag. Completing these tasks rewards the player money, where they can spend on new vehicles, car repairs, missiles and flamethrowers, fuel, and

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that can eject the player from their car to avoid danger.

Reception

''The Fury'' received mixed to negative reviews. '' Sinclair Users Chris Jenkins described as an "initially interesting, but ultimately unsatisfying space race". Andy Smith from '' ACE'' panned the game, criticizing its graphic and calling its concept " old hat". Matt Bielby for ''

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'' was also unimpressed by the graphics, noting the parallax scrolling failing to give the impression of speed. In addition to the poor reviews, the game did not sell well.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fury (video game), The 1988 video games Amstrad CPC games Racing video games Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games set in the 2040s ZX Spectrum games Martech games Multiplayer and single-player video games