TearItUp® Remix

The story is not important, mostly because it never rises above the standard premise of an underground competition where the winner takes home five million dollars. Although several voiced characters appear during your climb through the rankings, none of them significantly enrich the experience. The first thing worth clarifying is that this is not a traditional driving game. It behaves much more like an arcade title with a structure similar to a drag racing challenge. Each stage places you in a straight line sprint against a group of opponents or with a special objective, and all you need to do is cross the finish line before time runs out. Strategy is extremely limited. You simply hold the throttle and activate the turbo boost whenever it becomes available. Steering is not part of the game, although you are still required to move left and right during the central mechanic, which involves jumps. Jumps are scattered along the track, yet they are not visible in advance. You’ll simply have your car suddenly launched into the air without much warning. Once airborne, your job is to press left or right in order to move a guideline and match it with another line so that the car lands s…

Fun and challenging drag racing game with a big assortment of vehicles to choose from. The physics can throw you off and even screw you over at times (especially on the carry missions), but once you figure out the quirks and get used to it then there's lots more to appreciate. The voice acting, soundtrack and vehicle models are brilliant for a game developed by a small dedicated team like this, and the story features plenty of funny distinct characters. There's plenty of replayability and side missions to do, though hopefully more achievements will be added soon to encourage more of that. The game can be slightly grindy in later areas (a cute little guide owl tells you to take a break if you're getting tired) but managing your cash in this game isn't that difficult so it shouldn't be too big of a bother. Give it a shot, I miss Joe.

Despite its simple looks, I found this game extremely engaging and fun to play. Many of the missions offer a solid challenge and the gameplay loop is enjoyable and very reminiscent of old flash games albeit with more depth and gameplay variety. The cars have solid customization and the actual variety in the playable list in very solid. Overall this is an extremely good game for the price and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

It runs well and it plays well. I'm really enjoying it so far :) Strong recommend for the price.

At its core, Tear It Up is very strongly reminiscent of old flash games you used to play on the school computers when you had nothing better to do. While not my favorite kind of racing game, I got some enjoyment out of it. Graphically, it's not got much to offer outside a few pretty stylistic backdrops across the career, and the cars aren't modeled to superb quality, but in today's market I'd rather focus more on gameplay than graphics. It looks good enough to not be repulsive, but frankly not much better than decade old mobile games. For lack of a better word, forgettable. The gameplay itself is a bit of a repetitive loop, not that it can't be fun but when you have to stop to grind out a few races for a small handful of cash, the variety of quick events is super lackluster and once memorized becomes monotonous. The guns you unlock throughout the career help break up this issue, though outside of it they cannot be used at all. This makes quick event the weakest part of the game, when it should be stronger since once you beat the story, it feels like there's nothing else to do shy of replaying missions even though there is. The simple and easy to learn physics are fun, and once yo…