80's OVERDRIVE

Disappointing and lacking polish. The only really good part of this game is the soundtrack, basically all of the 18 tracks are awesome and absolute bangers. However, this is a video game, not a music album, and so good music is really not enough to make it a good game. The rest of the game is of questionable quality, with everything ranging from fantastic to craptastic. Some cars look great, others are super basic. Some of tracks look super good and the props/scenery is detailed and good looking. Others are sparse to the point of being near empty or have very low quality props, have huge pop-in issues, or broken layering where you can see the road through the ground or scenery pieces. Same goes for actually driving on them - some super basic, flat, with badly balanced track width and turns, where others have a much more varied elevation with little hills, much better variety of turns, changes in width that make sense, etc. The AI star difficulty rating of a race means nothing, other than perhaps a slight increase to the max speed the opponents drive. Their actual performance in the race is always a cointoss - either they drive perfectly and make absolutely no mistake, or they ar…

Unless you want to listen to some synth music, I don't see the point of this game. Kind of reminds of mobile games but without all those micro-transactions. The tracks are always the same. At least in the Outrun that it tries to mimic, the track would split. In this game you play to get points, to unlock, upgrade and play to get money. An each race lasts too long without any actual feeling of competition. Got it on a huge sale with steam autumn sale and I don't think it's worth it. Maybe for curiocity and the nice music. Kudos for the music.

At a sale, it's probably worth picking up. Issues I noted: Controls. The input is strictly binary --- either fully on or fully off. There are no intermediate values for steering or acceleration. Graphics. Sprites are scaled using floating-point arithmetic, and the interface features a mix of vector elements. The road appears to use a 3D-simulated scanline effect, which feels disjointed. Music. While there are a couple of decent tracks, the soundtrack is largely uninspired. The developers would have been better off licensing some CC0 tracks from ModArchive. Overall, The game attempts to tap into nostalgia, and it mostly succeeds, but only partially.

The game is utter garbage. Avoid at all costs.

The repair and fuel cost are not an issue. Great between more productive tasks.

A really solid game in the style of classics like Outrun and Top Gear. Gameplay loop feels a little simple at first, but as you advance in career mode, the races get harder, the cost of repairing your now-souped-up vehicle goes up, and cops start trying to stop you. And the vibes, man, the vibes! The music is perfect and the visuals are peak 80s. A no brainer if it's on sale. At the time of this review, it's only 99 cents.