Victory Heat Rally

love this game

This is a decently fun and solidly functional game that is none the less, missing something. The game is missing something, there's this painful lack of personality to it. There are different racers each with different cars, which sounds good on the surface but they're just Jpegs who get two sentences each near enough. One when you meet them in the Grand Prix, and another when you beat them to unlock them, From then on all you have is the single image of them. Their cars are different, but the cars in game are so relentlessly stylized that it's hard to tell them apart. If you took any car in the game and switched it's default color, I'd be hard pressed to tell it apart, all sharing the same hotwheels silhouette with extremely minor differences, especially cause you only ever see the back of the car. Car stats are also very minimal, and poorly explained. You an change two parts to alter these stats but it's hard to determine what value there is in it. What does "Power" mean? Off-roading in this game is so disincentivized that most times, if you were to go off road and a barrier appears between you and the track that *Would* lock you out, You just get teleported back to the track, not even Mario style lifted and placed so you lose time. Just BOOP you're there. So what does Power do? What Benefit does weight have? I thought it might work Mario Style where crashing into lighter vehicles would force them out of the way, but no, if you go into the back of a car when boosting, they get pushed forward and you lose speed. So what does Weight do? As an experiment I tried two diametrically opposed racers, One with speed as high as it'll go, and another with speed as low as it'll go. The final time difference was 2 seconds. There's lots of little details that lacks personality too. There are three voices in the game, one for the female presenter, one for the announcer, and one for the crash sound effect which is identical across all cars. in the Grand Prix there's no names for the drivers, including characters that explicitly have name, like the player and their rival. You never see the face of your driver or hear your driver, All these features combine to make a game that is technically competent and on some base level fun, but lacking the extra spice that makes a game great. To be clear, the game is still good and if you get it on sale, I'd say it's well worth the money, but it doesn't go much higher than a 7/10 at it's peak. What I would love to see is another game from this developer, one that moves in more of a Motorstorm direction. Vehicles with different silhouettes and significantly different stats, one where going off track and alternate paths in the tracks. Drivers with preferred Vehicle types. Something to give it that extra spice that this game sadly lacks.

Pretty fun, the side challenges (Jokers) throughout the Championship kept challenging me in unique ways and I thought the game was a good length.

Good game

Just beat the game in 5 hours with 20/23 achievements, really solid game overall. The first demo was terrible, but the game saw massive gameplay improvement with the second demo which is what sold me on the game, so I'd give it a shot if you're on the fence about how the game feels to play. The Art and Music were superb! Skydevilpalm outdid themselves with the art direction, it had that 90s retro anime feel with a hint of americana. Gwiz and RobKTA were great as always, give them a listen on your preferred music platform. My experience with AI Racers was pretty okay for once, It was weaker in the first half of the game but really ramped up in the second half, also it didn't have annoying rubberbanding mechanics (Big ups), and 4th, 3rd, and 2nd were very competent with keeping up with you and would capitalize on your mistakes/bad lines. If you're into kart racers/arcade racers like Robotnik's Ring Racers or Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, you'll have a lot of fun with this, but if you prefer a more realistic experience like Forza or Gran Turismo, you'll probably get less enjoyment out of this if you hate arcade racers for some reason, I haven't met a person who doesn't enjoy arcade racers personally. Looking forward to the next release from the dev team.

A simple arcade racer, reminded me of Power Drift a good bit. Pretty fun but also very challenging at times. Will return to 100% it at some point

Really Cool Racing game , the gameplay is close to Mario kart , you can't go wrong with this one !

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Beat Group Alpha and was immediately outpaced by the later courses. Kart racer without the items, arcade style speed. 10/10 fantastic driving model, beautiful graphics, a fun romp.