Malware Derby

I really like the controls, they are simple and work really well but I dislike almost everything else. The style of the game and the musics are pretty good too. There is 28 arenas but they all feel the same and are very small. You have a random powerup spawner in the middle, some walls around it and environmental hazards like lasers and fires that can damage the cars most of the time located in the edges of the map. There is no reward for exploration since the spawner is alway in the middle, there isn't several of them and there is no destructible walls or anything like that. The powerups aren't very satisfying to use. One give you extra speed but you don't care because the arenas are super cramped anyway. There is one that give you youre special but the way it work is meh. You press right mouse button then you see youre character appear in youre screen and every opponent on the map instantly die from what I understand. Would've been cool if every character had a different specials and also if you would have to aim with it instead of just killing everybody on the spot. Apart from that there is the health and invincibility ones that are self explanatory. The story is badly made but it's because the developper is clearly a kid. I'm not an english speaker but the way the characters speak is very rudimentary. The story present itself on the form of very slow powerpoints between each battles you do but you can't skip these and you can't click to make the pages pass faster. Imo the story us pretty cringy but since the developper is a kid I'll cut him some slack, I don't care about the story anyway, I was here for the gameplay. The way you fight is very meh. Imagine you are playing Twisted Metal so you have the base machinegun that you can alway shoot with because it has infinite ammo, but you have no other weapons apart from the special that spawn from time to time for you or a bot to pick up and again, you don't have to aim with it, it just kill everybody on the map. That's honestly boring. Also there isn't really physics in this game, so you can't push the bots into the hazards to kill them and there is also no collision damage from what I've seen. The only creative thing you can do is wait for them to get stuck into a hazard or a wall and stay on their ass to prevent them from backing out or turning while shooting them for extra damage. There is 4 different characters but apart from them having different storys and endings, there isn't much point to having several of them because they all play the same, their cars aren't very different apart from their colours and the special is the same for each of them. If you are reading this dev please don't take this review personally because you have a lot of potential. Imo making a game like that as a kid is pretty impressive. The controls are so f*cking good, I like the idea of steering with the mouse and having the possibility to freelook with it by pressing the middle mouse button. The game look cool, I love it's Tron style and the electronic music. I feel what hurt it the most is that there isn't enough variety in gameplay like in old games like Twisted Metal or Vigilante 8 apart from the characters having each their storys and endings. Legit as a base concept this game is very solid, the bones are really good. Edit : I'm sorry for the kid part it really was just an assumption and I didn't mean to insult you. I would very easily say that even if you aren't a kid, if this is your first project, you have a lot of potential. I'll stay tuned for your next projects.