There have been some darkish occasions for sci-fi racing video games after Sony closed Wipeout developer Studio Liverpool in 2012. As Nintendo left F-Zero to languish, high-speed antigrav racers turned a kind of “do not make ’em like they used to” genres for a couple of years, till indie video games like Redout and BallisticNG began to fill the void. There are a bunch of those video games now, however nearly all of them take after Wipeout greater than F-Zero.
Then there’s Aero GPX, which seems F-Zero as heeeeell.
This indie racer from developer Aaron McDevitt, which has a Steam web page stuffed with mesmerizing gifs, is clearly emulating the F-Zero X / GX video games in Nintendo’s collection, which despatched you corkscrewing round tubular tracks at frankly absurd speeds. Aero GPX seems prefer it’s notably targeted on the aggressive aspect of F-Zero, with a pair methods to slam your ship into different racers to knock them out of the working.
Aero GPX has a brilliant and bubbly cel shaded aesthetic, however in motion it seems manic, with ships doing spin assaults at one another at 1,500 kilometers per hour. The motion right here would possibly conjure up some painful reminiscences should you ever tried to beat F-Zero GX’s notoriously tough story mode or its grand prix at greater difficulties. Significantly, that recreation was not messing round. However there actually hasn’t been a racing recreation that quick and brutal since, not less than not one with F-Zero’s relentlessly twisty tracks.
To my data there’s actually solely been one different indie successor to F-Zero in the previous few years, and that is Tremendous Pilot. It has been in early entry since 2018 and appears prefer it actually will get the velocity and observe design good, although with much less emphasis on attacking different racers. However you can play it proper now, whereas Aero GPX is at the moment gearing up for a Kickstarter marketing campaign. What a deal with it might be to have two riffs on the most effective racing video games ever made each out there on PC.
