"RC Revolution: High Voltage - 免费玩" is a rather poorly made Chinese ripoff of Re-Volt, a remote control car stunt driving game, but the most remarkable part about this is the sheer number of fake/paid reviews from the Russian review farm uncovered by Sentinels of the Store.
As a game, this doesn't meet basic standards, resolution seems to be locked, controls are locked, it's janky and bug riddled. This looks like they're preparing to inject NFTs or store items or some other form of monetization into it, I guess that's the only reason for seeding this with paid reviews. I guess they were hoping it would "go viral" and then they would hammer down the cash shop stuff. Regardless, even if those elements aren't present in this game, when you play it, it feels like they're just around the corner, lurking. That combined with the jankiness makes this impossible to recommend.
This features fairly mediocre/cartoony/low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. A lot of the assets look like they might be uncredited stock assets.
This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.
[quote][b][url=https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/16-cfr-part-465-trade-regulation-rule-use-consumer-reviews-testimonials-final-rule]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/b]
This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation.
Due to the 2024 FTC ruling (16 CFR Part 465), these fake reviews are a violation of US Federal Law.[/quote]
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
