There’s nothing fairly like the sensation you get whenever you’re enjoying a racing sport and also you hit the seam excellent popping out of a flip, scorch over some ridiculous enhance mechanic, and simply… fly. Upcoming indie Turbo Drive (opens in new tab), from newcomers Blitzkrieg Video games, appears to be like like a superb alternative to do exactly that… in a 12 months or so.
The Steam web page for Turbo Drive payments it as an “extremely quick anti-gravity racing sport with on-line competitions, deep gameplay mechanics, and a monitor editor.” Giving off critical F-Zero vibes, the gameplay video options some low-poly raceships flying round activates a monitor hanging in midair over some fairly picturesque backgrounds.
Whereas there’s not loads to go on simply but, the stuff that’s there may be fairly hype. The physics on the ships look clean as butter, the tracks look attention-grabbing, and the theme enjoying over it’s a banger. With some extra improvement and an precise monitor editor, I may see this sport being like a modern-day mashup of Wipeout and Excitebike (I know I’m not the one one who spent infinite hours as a child making up his personal tracks).
With no new entries to the F-Zero or Wipeout franchises coming any time quickly, it could be time for a brand new challenger within the antigrav race… house. In spite of everything, Captain Falcon has been doing extra punching of faces than punching of fuel currently—the final racing sport he was in was F-Zero Climax on the Gameboy Advance in 2004.
Within the meantime, you possibly can take a look at a pair different entries within the style. Redout 2 got here out this June and options insane speeds, a number of racing physics challenges, and a few cool dragons hanging out with you on steely neon tracks. BallisticNG is described by its creators as a “love letter to the unique Wipeout trilogy,” and options tremendous slick low poly ship design and an lively mod group that periodically provides new tracks and ships.
