
One of the available missions are carjacking cars and delivering them to Bert's chop shop, but Shank and her crew chase the player in an attempt to stop them from reaching it. In-game, the netizens are NPCs while the net users are players using Slaughter Race avatars distinguished by having static movement and usernames displayed above them. Since there is no archival track, the races can happen on both off and on its roads towards other areas and road-like surfaces on which the racers can drive.

Even when there is no race happening, the game is hardly ever calm. Its setting could be described as apocalyptic, due to the "style" of its rundown city, the orange-yellow color of its air and "sky" presumably from the exhaust, and the dangerous obstacles that its inhabitants face on a daily basis, such as violent dogs, sharks, other vehicles that aren't in the race and can get in the racer's way, and explosions.

Slaughter Race is an extremely gritty racing game that is played by multiple people controlling the racers.
