As I said before, it is strictly 2D and has a flat, almost Flash-like quality to it. It does lead to more precise throttle control though so you’re kind of forced to use it. You can use the right analog stick to do both (up for acceleration, down for the brakes) which is much more effective but feels a bit unnatural when we’ve been using gamepad shoulder buttons/triggers for twenty years for this sort of thing. It may be that acceleration overrides braking but it feels odd. It’s quite a purist approach but when your game is feature-lacking compared to titles that came out thirty years ago, you’ve got an issue.įor such simple controls, we were surprised to find any issues but if you use and for acceleration and braking, seems to be entirely ineffective. The vast majority of tracks don’t even have shortcuts or those barrier things that Super Sprint had. Aside from basic steering all you have is acceleration and braking. While the racing works, there’s not much to it. Although we’ve had some of the longer tournaments crash out on us while we’ve been doing well, so that’s a bit of a shame but presumably is patchable.
If you do mess up you can just restart the race which doesn’t affect your tournament standings so that’s fine although it does make things a little too easy. It’s okay though as you don’t want seemingly endless tracks because in this type of game one mistake is usually enough to ruin your race and so having shorter tracks means you don’t have to be perfect for ages. These races are usually very short with lap times often being less than twenty seconds, although occasionally a track takes a bit longer to race around for some reason. You start off on the grid and have to race around the track using a strictly top-down 2D view. I shouldn’t be using the same tactics for tractor racing as I do for F1 cars. These all handle differently in terms of speed, turning and impact behaviour but similar enough that it does all feel a bit samey. The vehicles range from various racing car types to tractors, motorbikes and even UFOs. Winning events earns you cash and cash lets you buy different vehicles, each with their own three-tiered career progression.
Starting in the career mode, you are initially given a basic rally car to start with and you have to work through three tiers of races which offer 5, 10 and 15 races in a Grand Prix format. What you get is a career mode, single races and time trials. In fact the game’s super generic title pretty much says it all, this is a racing game that’s a bit like the ones you used to play in the arcades. There’s no story to worry about with Race Arcade. This isn’t a sub-genre that gets visited too often these days as racing games were one of the genres that most embraced the switch over to 3D polygonal games. It is the latest release from Iceflake Games (a little known mobile game developer) and is a top-down racing game in the vein of Super Sprint. Sure, it’s not unusual for games to hark back to the days of 2D retrogaming, if anything it’s unusual when an indie game doesn’t, but this title really aims to capture that bygone era.
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Jin PS4 tagged arcade / mantis burn racing / racing / super sprint by Richie
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