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[h1]What a Missed Opportunity![/h1] This could have been [i]so good![/i] [b]Mercury Race[/b] does the [b]Mercury[/b] really well, but does the [b]Race[/b] poorly... [h1]MERCURY[/h1] [b]Mercury Race[/b]'s [i]TRON[/i] aesthetic is nearly perfect. Glowing line graphics tickle the inseam of my nostalgia pants. The only thing that would improve the look are flashes of light when things explode. [b]Mercury Race[/b]'s shooting is a delight, [b][i]if you have the Steam Controller[/i][/b]. I imagine the shooting would not be so great using other control methods. For me, I use the thumb stick to steer, and the gryo to aim the target reticule. Any time a (red) enemy is inside the square target reticule, it gets shot automatically. It's great! [h1]RACE[/h1] Here's where things are not so hot. Calling [b]Mercury Race[/b] a racing game requires a liberal definition of the term. First of all is the handling. The craft handling feels like it was written in the early 90s. No sense of weight, physics or drifting. It's just go, turn, and use the brake to turn really fast. The tracks have super sharp bends and most of the time I negotiate them by dragging my face along the guard rail until the bend straightens out. The track has obstacles that are placed in a way that they were expecting someone was controlling the game's craft with an Atari CX40 Joystick. Go left or right and the craft bilocates in either direction in a very 80's way to avoid the obstacles. But that's now how this game is controlled. It's a pseudo-modern racing game where you steer and accelerate. In other words, there's no way you are getting through these tracks without smacking into some of these obstacles unless you slow waaay down first and that's no fun. What the game needed was a retro aesthetic with a modern feel. Like Wipeout, Need for Speed, or even Outrun feels. Widen the track and space the obstacles apart so they can be negotiated without having to use the braille method. Give the craft a sense of weight with real physics and a bit of drifting. This game could have been so great. Missed it by [i]that much[/i]. Second of all, it's not much of a racer. There are no opponents to race against. It is you and only you trying to get past the finish line and if you do it under a certain time you get a medal. That old chestnut. It has local multiplayer but I don't have anyone here to try that out. To add one more wrinkle, after the first couple of tracks, the game should be called [b]Mercury Survive[/b], instead of [b]Mercury Race[/b]. The reason is because every time you smack into an obstacle, or grind your face along the ouside guard rail of a tight bend, you are losing energy. When you lose all of your energy, your craft explodes and it's [i]GAME OVER[/i]. So the game becomes more about surviving to the end of an obstacle course than a "race." As much as I was endeared by the look of the game and the unique shooting mechanic that felt like it was made for the Steam Controller, I cannot recommend the game unless you find it heavily discounted. I paid $2 for it and that seems about right. I hate putting it that way because the developers are probably really nice guys and fellow citizens of the Grid. It's just... Not that good of a racing game. :/ It also loses points for not having a cockpit view. For a racing game that has somewhat similar shooting mechanics but does indy racing right, I recommend looking at [b]Road Redemption[/b]. That goes double for you if you have a Steam Controller!
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Llevo un buen rato jugando y merece mucho la pena. ¡La estética me encanta! A ver si se hacen más juegos de este estilo sin tener que pagar una fortuna. Le seguiré la pista a la empresa que lo ha desarrollado, si siguen haciendo juegos así aqui tienen mi dinero.
Cool racing game! Clean and pleasant graphics and a modern f-zero vibe. A good amount of challenging tracks and an amazing soundtrack. The controls took some time to get confortable with, but work ok after a while. Looking forward to play it with friends!
[b]Retrofuturistik bir dünyada geçen bu yarış oyununda; sizden sadece araç sürmeniz istenmiyor. Araç sürerken aynı zamanda da atış yaparak her ikisine birden odaklanıp en iyi işi ortaya koymaya çalışıyorsunuz. Bütün bunları yaparken yarış platformunun keskin virajlar barındırdığını aklınızda bulundurup, hız dengenizi iyi ayarlayarak süratinizi kesecek çarpışmalardan uzak kalmaya çalışmalısınız. 🌟 Diğer oyun incelemelerini bulabileceğiniz [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25772060/] [u]Küratör Sayfası[/u] [/url]
Esta genial!! Fantastico juego de carreras. Lo mejor para mí, poder echar partidas con mis amigos en local 10/10 ^^
Mercury Race is a simplistic low poly minimalist console ported arcade racing game with a neon/sci-fi theme. Gameplay consists of driving clunkily around a minimalist track with horrible steering and badly polished handling (it's seriously unpleasant to play even compared to other arcade racing games). You also shoot things by waving your mouse reticle over things, it's not sure what this accomplishes. The technical implementation is on par with the poor game design and lazy lack of polish. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. Because this is a console game, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Mercury Race didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for destroying your "car" or whatever it is, but only around 32 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Mercury Race has the ridiculous price of around $8 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. [b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b]Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.
Good combination of driving and shooting mechanics. I like so much the arcade mode.
ネオンな世界観&BGMが良の高難度障害物レース 周回ごとに難易度が上がる障害物回避とコーナリングに集中しつつ記憶と反射でエイムを合わていくのがやりごたえある
Genial para disfrutar de un arcade de carreras y velocidad. La combinación de conducir y tener que estar pendiente también de disparar a enemigos y demás obstáculos que aparecen durante las carreras convierte cada circuito en reto mucho mas estimulante de lo que en un principio puede sonar. +1 Por incluir dos tipos de sistemas de apuntado diferentes. -1 Algún error puntual de navegación por los menus utilizando ratón y teclado
Un muy buen juego de carreras. Tiene 15 circuitos y varias naves diferentes a escoger. Engancha bastante y te picas a conseguir todas las medallas. Además los últimos circuitos son más complicados, así que hacerse con todas las medallas supone un reto bastante tocho. Tambien engancha bastante el tema de los rankings online, ya que tiene una clasificación mundial con los mejores tiempos y mola ver tu nombre arriba. Tambien tiene un modo multijugador local, así que los piques con los colegas están garantizados. La música es muy cañera y ochentera, y gráficamente tiene un toque retrofuturista bastante guay. Si os gustan los juegos de carreras, os recomiendo este título.
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