You're an agent who rewrites the road. Drag a curve onto an enemy
car to redraw its lane — steer it off-road or into another car to
wreck it. Each redraw spends INK (it refills slowly), so pick your
moments. Guns are your backup. Grab weapons from the weapons van.
Never harm civilians (you can't redraw them). Survive the boat
sections. Don't crash.
Drag on an enemy = redraw its lane (spends INK)
↑/W accelerate ↓/S brake
←→/AD steer
Space fire X deploy special weapon
Road Agent
Drive a gadget-packed car up the highway, blasting and ramming enemy vehicles off the asphalt.
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How to play
You drive up a highway that never ends, weaving through traffic while hostile cars try to force you off the road. Your machine guns never run out, but the equipment that actually solves problems — oil, smoke and missiles — is limited, and the only way to restock is a support van that pulls alongside while you are still moving.
Machine guns have unlimited ammunition. Every special weapon is finite.
Re-arming happens at speed: you drive into the back of the support van as it travels beside you.
Oil and smoke are dropped behind you, so they deal with what is following rather than what is ahead.
Ordinary civilian traffic shares the road and is not a target. Harming it is counted against you.
The road narrows, forks and changes surface as you go, so the same tactic does not work everywhere.
Controls
Desktop: arrow keys to drive, Space to fire; drag with the pointer to steer
Phone & tablet: drag to steer and tap to fire (touch supported)
Tips & strategy
Restock before you are empty. The van has to be caught while you are both moving, and the moment you need a weapon urgently is the worst moment to be lining up a docking.
Save the missiles. Guns handle most things eventually, and the special weapon you are carrying is the answer to a problem you have not met yet.
Drop oil and smoke into a corner rather than a straight. Anything following has to commit to a line there, which is when a slick is worth most.
Learn which traffic is civilian at a glance. Restraint is scored here, and the fastest way to spoil a good run is a careless shot into ordinary traffic.
Width is a resource. On a narrow stretch you have no room to dodge, so spend your weapons before you get there, not after.
Origins
Road Agent is a tribute to Spy Hunter, released by Bally Midway in 1983, a top-down driving game with a spy-thriller frame and the Peter Gunn theme playing over it.
The support van is the structure. It pulls alongside on the move and you drive into the back of it to swap your current weapon for another — smoke, oil, missiles — which means re-arming happens at speed, in traffic, with a queue of pursuers behind you. Civilian cars share the road and are not targets; hitting them costs you. So the game is less about aggression than about restraint at high speed, which is an unusual thing for a 1983 arcade cabinet to ask.
About Road Agent
Road Agent is an original free browser take on the classic armed-car highway combat genre, with selectable difficulty and a daily run. Play instantly, no install.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
