Summarize your setting in one sentence

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Summarize your setting in one sentence

Lichtenstein: May 31, 2012; It'll make sense, eventually.

This might be cheating a little, as these are gently painted sample settings/campaign starters for the game I've been working on for the past year, Downforce. But the thread is as good opportunity as any to workshop my elevator pitches, right?

If it's somehow not obvious from the following summaries, the game has a singular focus on cars racing each other.

At the distant world of Betelgeuse Prime, reckless street racers steal from starship yards to tune their rides with components that should be nowhere near a regular car.
As the time is ticking for the five-year plan and first Soviet outpost on Mars is nowhere near ready, the great cold war powers turn towards motorsports to prove their technological dominance.
Two hundred competitors gather at the sandy beaches of San Diego for Bullet Express, the largest televised event of the generation where the only rule is: the first car to reach Manhattan Island wins.

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