Carrying you through Eastern Europe is your Laika 601 Deluxe – a fictional variant of the East German Trabant. Commencing in your Uncle's scrapyard at Dresden, you make your way across the border into the Czech Republic before travelling through Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to your final destination of Istanbul in Turkey. Within this period of uncertainty and turmoil, the game inserts a surprisingly gentle tale which sees you travel on a “Grand Journey East” with your Uncle. Jalopy is set during the last years of the Soviet Union, after the fall of the Berlin Wall but before the collapse of Communism. What results is a love-letter to the automobile written in a very different style, one that focusses on the car as a facilitator of adventures, rather than something that should be forced to go ever faster in a circle. Jalopy is all about getting away from this cycle of pushing toward a vehicular singularity, stripping away all the glitz and glamour associated with racing sims, presenting us with a lo-fi adventure in a lo-fi world, enabled by the lowest of lo-fi cars. A slip in the corner results in you losing your place, while a collision will shatter your car's pristine form.Ĭonsequently, all your top-tier driving games are very similar in form and function, technologically stunning but bereft of new ideas. They obsess over handling and tyre wear, how sunlight glints off the bodywork, and how rain affects the friction of the track. From Forza to Grand Turismo, they focus on grunting supercars rendered in millions of pixels, all competing for supremacy to cross the finish line first or post the fastest time.
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