19 circuits and 15 new vehicles, including motorcycles, a floating purple batlike creature, and a witch riding a broom. Another version called POD: Gold was later released, which included POD, its expansion, plus a new sound set. A port of POD for the Nintendo 64 was announced, but never released. In the winter of 2000, Ubisoft released the game's successor, POD 2 (also known as POD 2: Multiplayer Online and POD: Speedzone), for the Sega Dreamcast console. It is another futuristic racing game, but players are able to attack their opponents. Each player is a miner on the colony of Damethra, and an alien virus has taken over the cars on the colony, creating mutant cars. It was one of the first games playable on SegaNet and one of the few games to support the Dreamcast Broadband Adaptor. The game features eight vehicles to use on five tracks. Bonus cars and tracks could be unlocked if the game was played online and the user had a Game Service account, but due to the shutdown of SegaNet, these are now inaccessible. On October 6, 2011, POD was re-released by GOG.com, with added compatibility with modern operating systems. Reception Next Generation rated it three stars out of five, and stated that "Pod is a fantastic ride, with high-color graphics at high resolution and a steady, high frame rate. It could very well be the prettiest racing game you can buy right now." Reviews Electric Games (1997) PC Multimedia & Entertainment (Apr 11, 1997) Coming Soon Magazine (May, 1997) Game-Over! (Jun 07, 1997) Gamezilla (1997) World Village (Gamer's Zone) (1997) References External links POD at MobyGames Holger's POD Info - Page with info and installation tips for Windows XP PODPhreaks, a useful website about the game. It contains a lot of downloads. nelsonspbr's POD, with information, videos, tips and tricks about the game. 1997 video games Cancelled Nintendo 64 games Science fiction racing games Multiplayer and single-player video games Ubisoft games Vehicular combat games Video games developed in France Video games set on fictional planets Video games with expansion packs Windows games Windows-only games Fiction about mining Video games about viral outbreaks