Woden GP

¿Te gustan los arcades clásicos de carrera estilo Over Top, Neo Drift Out, World Rally Championship? ¿Sí? Pues ya estás tardando en hacerte con Woden GP. Todo un homenaje a este género de videojuegos pero incorporando añadidos e ideas nuevas, como un modo historia, la posibilidad de desbloquear más coches, filtros de visualización y ¡mucho más! No os lo perdáis, de lo más divertido que he jugado en los últimos meses y a precio de risa.

With a few Woden racing games in my library already and a new one out this week, it seemed like as good a time as any to get familiar with them. This first one apparently was taken off the store fairly quickly, released in August 2020 and delisted about 3 years later. Presumably as the developer's skills improved and they released more games, they just didn't want this decent but amateurish game around anymore on their account. But that's just a guess. There's a lot to like here, it's reminiscent of classic top-down arcade racers like Kaneko's Great 1000 Miles Rally and SNK's Over Top, but of course without the looks or tight control of those professional arcade games. The graphics are a bit odd here, there's like a blur/smudginess over the image that I can't seem to make go away no matter what setting I choose. But it's also quite possible the max res. here is 720p and it's just going to look like that on a 4K screen. Controller support (a must for any racing game) is solid, every button is about where you expect it to be including trigger gas and brake. There's 14 individual races, each one of which seems to award you a new car, and 3 cup races containing 4 races each. The game is fast and controls well with a noticeable difference in the cars, but there's one major flaw: The trees (and sometimes buildings) over hang the track frequently, completely obscuring your vision of your car and sending you into all sorts of chaos as you try and figure out how to get back on the track. Or even what direction you're facing. An absolute "what were they thinking?!" classic. But outside of that one major misstep this was a pretty nice first effort, and I'm excited to get to the rest of the Woden racers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJoK80Hf6YA

Tremendo juego con toda la inspiracion del WRC de los arcades pero mucho mas complejos. Partimos que es barato, tiene una amplia variedad de circuitos, coches, condiciones climaticas y competencias. Los controles y sonidos son muy buenos. La unica pega que por el momento no deja configurar los controles y hay que jugar con una sola mano. Viene en varios idiomas, no te vas arrenpentir!!!!!!

[code]If you like top-down racing games, please follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36693366/]curator page[/url].[/code] A recommendation with some reservation. Pros: - Pleasant 90's PlayStation1-like presentation - Great arcady music - Great announcer voice actress (she needs more lines) - The drifting sounds like Ridge Racer :D (overall the sound effects are pretty good) - The cars look bright and colorful, also much like Ridge Racer or Auto Modelista (the look of the cars makes this game attractive at first glance) - The circuits are varied and challenging (I also like that some of them are pretty long) - A campaign with some narration - 2 player splitcreen - Native controller support - Achievable achievements - A lot of potential In between: - I'm a little unsure about the handling. It is definitely not bad, but I would say, it is at least somewhat unintuitive. Even on asphalt (there is muddy ground, too) the car is always more or less drifting just by hitting the directional button with no need to brake. But then (while drifting) you have to brake to "tame" the drift. If you drift too much, the car will lose too much speed. I found this handling very appropriate for the muddy rally courses. But I would say, the general appeal and atmosphere of the game and of course the focus on asphalt evoke the desire for some tighter controls. Cons and suggestions: - The track environment is probably the biggest visual and general weak point of the game. Let's go into detail here: Unfortunately one can easily notice that almost everything in the track environment is more or less out of proportion, not on scale. Even on the same track you can find some huge differences in the size of trees. You will also encounter monstrous sunflowers or parked trucks/vans, which are far too big, and so on. I think, even for an arcade game this is a little too much. While the racing cars are really beautiful, the track environment appears deformed, blocky and unreal. Another negative effect of the course environment is that it sometimes conceals the player's view, so you can easily lose track of your car. Comparable classics like Neo Drift Out never do this. I want to encourage the developer to do some rework here. - The game obviously does not save any highscores or best times. That's a no go for an arcade racer :D Please add this essential feature. A pure time trial mode and online leaderboards also would be great. - Although the minimap is very helpful, I would wish, the game has a clearer indication of upcoming corners. There is much inconsistancy in this regard: sometimes there are directional arrows on the track, sometimes not. Also the yellow displays on the trackside are not that helpful – in contrary to the other track objects they are far too small. I think, some arcady blinking HUD-like indicators would work best (as long as they do not distract or block the view). Some "Easy left – Easy right" from Melissa Medina would of course also be helpful :D Overall I enjoyed my almost 7 hours with Woden GP, but to be a real long runner it still needs some tweaks and improvements. This 90's style isometric arcade racer has a lot of potential!

Un juego echo por solo una persona con mucha dedicación y cariño

Si has jugado al clásico World Rally o "Carlos Sainz" de recreativa ya sabes de qué va este juego. No te dejes engañar por su enfoque arcade, es un juego muy exigente que requiere de dedicación y paciencia para llegar a dominarlo. Tiene los fallos y carencias esperables del juego debut de un desarrollador solitario, pero a cambio te da horas de diversión a un precio irrisorio.

fantastic challenging game. recommend it. gets addicting. reminds me also on NeoGeo games like Neo Drift out. i have started playing campaign with "Normal" level setting and finished first six events with little practice. but with begin of 7th event i needed to reduce to "easy" level :) "easy" level in this game seems to be the sweet spot for me, it is still challenging and not really easy, but fair enough to finally progress on campaign with little practice.

If you loved the rally games from the Neo Geo Era and if you mix this with RC de GO from PS1, you definitely need to add this game to your Library!! The game has great potential and I would love to see new cars and championships to be added in future updates. The handling of the cars and difficulty if you are kind of a beginner in this type of games, I recommend to start on Easy or Very Easy difficulty that the developer added to get to know better the tracks and the IA of the CPU more and it will take of course more than a couple of tries to get the hang out of it, but after winning a couple of races you soon start to definitely notice the improvements on the laps time and enjoy more the thrilling of the races and rally's in Arcade/Career Mode. Sometimes I found the game challenging and always testing your skills at the limit (Like for example the latest checkpoint in the route A (when you are running out of time in the Snow Area) and this is a good thing because it always keeps you pump and honing your skills to always get the better results. luckily the game do not fall in the boring/loop circle we all racing gamers remember back in the year 1999 when we played Gran Turismo 2 when you finally get the Suzuki Escudo Pikes peak and get like +99 laps ahead of all the rivals in the endurance/race events.... Yamauchi you mad? lol I like the challenges added on this game and I am an old school racing gamer and loved the difficulty setting placed on Woden GP. For me I loved this game and I RECOMMEND IT and like the first reviewer pointed out on the game that for the price it is a bargain and as a plus the game I found it very fun, it is a win/win scenario to myself.