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Great racing mechanics, HORRIBLE Gen Z filled community of cheaters and whiners. Once I finish the story I'm done.

Really solid game but definitely wait for a sale.

[h1] Strong contender for the best arcade racer most people won't play [/h1] [h3] A game with solid foundations that absolutely fails to stick the landing [/h3] Have you played Ridge Racer 3D on the 3DS? Have you played any fighting game on the last few years? Well put of these together and you have Screamer 2026. Even if you haven't, give this unconventional game a try, you might just like it. It asks a lot from the player but it certainly will keep you engaged in the driving It's got a very unintuitive handling mechanic and there's thee semi-automatic gearbox. But you will definitely be struggling with the dual stick drifting. Once it clicks though. Boy does it click. Mechanically speaking? this game's good, it's great even. It has some really amazing highs sometimes. It's probably the best racing game of the year and it's also probably the best game most people will never play. More often than not because Milestone has a reputation for "just alright" games. And this one is beyond just alright. It is amazing. But, nobody will be buying it at it's asking price of 70 pounds. It's just too steep of an offer for what's in store. Now. this game has a story mode and... How to say this properly. It's padded. There's 4 main chapters, each with 30 or so episodes each, sure, 120 races, not that bad right? Nope. Sometimes, for many of the episodes, you get like 7 or 8 sub-episodes, so you get a lot of things back to back to back and... they really could be their own thing. Then on the other end of the spectrum, they have episodes that are ... a total of 4 textboxes long? hardly 6 sentences worth. Really mixed feelings about the story. They spend up this much time building up things with the characters and going around and setting this whole thing up. And then they... essentially ♥♥♥♥ everything up and throw it all away in the last 10 minutes of the game just to set up a sequel so it can at least have a first arc that's just like the first arc of this game. I kinda felt stabbed like that. Not in the... deep, emotional level they probably wanted? It just felt... cheap. Hollow even. Either way, it's great, with it's flaws and all. Do play it. it can be done in like 10 hours if you know what you're doing, maybe 7 if you really don't want to try doing all the objectives and arriving first on every race (it's not mandatory)... maybe even 5 if you just do the main story beats. And this is just the story mode. Once you get into the meat of the arcade mode like checkpoint races, team races, time attacks, score attacks... It's got content for days. Do give it a shot. Oh, also. Performance wise? It's UE5 stuff. which means you can't get the raw frames and you need to use some kind of temporal antialiasing whether you want it or not, and it could probably work better on the Deck with some extra polish (oh it DOES run alright but... it feels too nerfed for what this game is. It really does nothing, engine-wise, that Split-Second or Motorstorm on the PS3 (2006) have not done before so i don't understand why does it need all the extra grunt.