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• gamedeal user

  Nov 8, 2021

  [h1]A loveletter to Outrun[/h1] 80's Overdrive is a retrostyle 2D pve racing game similar to classics such as Outrun, Tazmania and Top Gear from the 80's/90's. There's around 100 built-in racetracks to race through, 18 music tracks to listen to and a handful of different car models to race with. Plus you get side-missions which give bonus money for completion. Aside from that there's a built-in level editor which allows you to generate new tracks or import ones via a password system. And finally, there's a time-attack mode that plays like Outrun and similar games. You race along until you run out of time, zones changing every few times with the option to go left/right to a different one at the turnover. If you have played such games before, you definitely want to pick this modern interpretation up asap. But there's a few things you should know. Especially if you never played such games before, or are on the fence otherwise. [hr][/hr] [h1]The Good[/h1] -The game has a killer sountrack. Very 80's, but beautiful. -Works well with both a controller and k+m. -The graphics engine is a lot smoother than say ye olde SNES' was. -Sprite detailing. Sprite animation. Position handling of sprites. -Missions, Time attack and Level editor add a lot to the core experience. -Traffic AI is a little less derpy -Car models look good. [h1]The Bad[/h1] -Rubber band AI for your competitors. If you crash, 4-5 will immediately pull past. -Level editor is limited to changing a few parameters and then generating a track. Unfortunately you cannot mix and match or have more direct control over the track generated. -Cars boil down to different skins. Fully upgraded cars all have the same max speed, handling and damage cost reduction. This makes collecting all of them a bit moot. -Only 18 music tracks -Few racetrack themes. Feels kinda like the devs just locked in a few generated tracks from the editor. -Time attack mode can get very challenging. [h1]The Verdict[/h1] I do recommend this game if you can live with the above merits and demerits. It's relatively inexpensive even at full price and it can be a relaxing game to play. However, it is not perfect and I may have some nostalgia goggles on for this upgraded version of childhood racing games.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 20, 2021

  This should be one of the best indie racing games out there if you love games like Outrun, Rad Racer, Top Gear, etc from the 8 and 16 bit generation of racing games. But due to some unforgivable design flaws, it cannot be recommended. The good: ----------- Rocking soundtrack Beautiful Retro graphics Cars to buy and upgrade Outrun style game play The bad: ---------- As others have said, the grind is slow. Every race has an entry free. Damages taken cost money to repair. Fuel needs to be replenished each race. And you only earn money in the top 3 spots. At least races can be rerun. This wouldn't be a problem if not for the ugly.... The Ugly (and why a thumbs down): --------------------------------------- Your opponents cars get upgraded as well whenever you do. The whole idea of being able to upgrade your car is so that you can make the slow grind easier on earlier tracks. Instead, it is artificially more difficult. The collision mechanic is horrid; and downright brutal. When you get hit, your car slides some and you slow down; similar to how Outrun happens. The problem is that other cars do not appear to receive this same penalty to where you can run into a situation where you're continuously ran into by the traffic without the chance of regaining control of your vehicle; and possibly forced into a obstacle on the side of the road. This happened to me right before the finish of one race (first to last), as well as continuously throughout another (always near last). Add in the fact that other cars on the road will literally suicide into you, the game turns into nothing but frustration. Fix the Ugly, and this game would most definitely get a thumbs up from me.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2022

  nails the look and feel, but the gameplay makes you wanna die & its design choices are questionable to say the least... Collisions are awful and buggy as hell...you can start a race and crash into a dumb AI that has blown its engine at start(and you can't even fucking avoid them if they are right in front of you at start, that's how awful turning your car actually is) and your car will be completely wrecked from one hit...This is not normal as high speed collisions take about 2-5% damage to you and this low speed unavoidable-if-unlucky collision immediately kills you is the most annoying thing in the world. Such an occurrence can kill your entire savegame because of being low on money. The missions are bugged as in you can't do them again if you failed or won the race but did not do the mission or quit the race. I am missing my 3rd mission achievement because I deliberately chose to finish in 10th because of a different achievement. The mission was to finish in 3rd. I stayed for the music, achievements & for actually finishing the game...you will probably also get into a spot in which you will not have enough money to enter any race because of the start fee. You can also wreck your car at the beginning of a race like I said above and not be able to do anything since at the beginning of the career you will be begging for money and you might as well restart your savegame at that point because this game is absolute dogshit in such gameplay choices. now SPOILER ALERT, the last race is going to drive you mad point blank. You have to get ahead and to keep bumping into the AI trying to overtake you for the whole goddamn race which i swear feels like 10 minutes of agony. Once he overtakes you, it's over, because this game is amazing and fair and I am running out of sarcasm for this shitty "boss race". I cannot be bothered to keep trying that shit and you also should not be bothered about this game too...you can waste your 3-5 hours playing something that isn't boring or plain broken.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 8, 2022

  its a grind precision retro 80s arcade style race game where you have to compete against other drivers ranked. players faced and complain about the police car that hit you from behond make your car get damage% i can explain - its not working wrong or a bug, in the first few races where you only got the "slow" car police is to fast and crash a lot into your car , you can try to move left right to dodge it or simple face luck that you win the race without a lot damage or being stopped by the cops. so if you got enough $ to $ the aggressor f.e. , get it and the police car wont hit you that easy, you still should try to dodge it, cops try 3x to stop you then the cop car stops and let you run sure sometimes it depends on how traffic moves and that you are lucky not to get hit by traffic car switching lanes making you crash and loose the race - would be pretty boring if cars in traffic not switching lanes being an obstacle for you. controls not clunky or bad to annoy players, they like how it worked back in the days, like steering with the used a 10000x steering wheel of an arcade machine. you just need some skill and reflex to avoid getting hit by traffic. i like it feels like playing an arcade machine 80s 90s , like outrun. its not like the retrowave game. pixel design, graphics well done i would like some steam cards and badge for this game
• gamedeal user

  Apr 28, 2022

  This could be such a positive review if a few things were different. First off, the good. -game looks great -driving is fun -retro influence is well done, colors are vibrant, landscapes are cool, cars are film and era inspired -traffic is well implemented, not too heavy, erratic, or unfair The bad list is a bit more extensive sadly. The motherloving emoji nonsense ruins the game..hands down I'd be rating it positive if it wasn't for this. Enemy racers are constantly spamming large emojis over their cars. These contribute nothing to gameplay, block your view of the road, and can't be disabled. As a game that bills itself as retro I ask myself, where was the emoji spam in Rad Racer or Outrun? The soundtrack is mostly weak, aside from a few good tunes at the end of the radio - tracks 14-18 absolutely rock. The police encounters only affect you. Enemy racers pass a cop doing 220 and he does nothing, only to immediately go after me doing 80. They also magically teleport across the median to chase you. Its not a huge dynamic in the game but it feels stacked against you. Upgrades are pointless, as every upgrade scales your enemies to the same level. The only reason to buy them and the other cars is to get the achievements. Collision detection is bad. I've been a hair away from other cars in time trials and not been given credit for passing. I've also had cars hit me, or get just close enough to the edge of the track where it thinks I've hit and locks my car up. The grind is incredibly long and unrewarding, and all of the special missions are a one time thing so if you decline or miss it you lose out on the achievement until you start a whole new game. I got this on sale and have had some fun with it, but the imbalanced game play doesn't make for an overall rewarding experience. This is so close to being a great game that its tragic. I don't recommend this unless you can get it on sale and this type of retro-racer genre is something you really love. See : Horizon Chase Turbo for how something like this could've turned out.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 6, 2022

  Pretty slick and well put together but it didn't stay good for long. The emoji stuff that the most popular review is harping on is personal preference because I saw those same emojis and I didn't think anything of it and even found them pretty amusing at times. The first minor problem for me was that starts are annoying. If you touch any car at the start then your start is ruined. It's frustrating because of the way the perspective is or the hitboxes maybe, and you will hit when you think you won't. Avoiding it is handled by the same action every time; you just learn to shift up while holding one direction and doing that action correctly will get you past the start 90% of the time. The developer frontloads one of the worst parts of the game but defeating it isn't engaging. It's just a nuisance. The races are very long and touching anything will destroy your progress unless you have maintained the lead for a while and have a large one. Getting touched will destroy your speed so much that things will come from behind to hit you as they overtake you and this will continue your downward slide. After restarting a specific race several times, I finally got sick of it and just plowed through. I finished 5th or so because that was all I could retake after getting touched and falling back. Car took some damage in this race, so I repaired it quickly after the race without really paying attention. Upon being unable to enter the next race, I found the repair took all of my money and I couldn't enter any new reaces. A new icon showed up where Not Will Smith said he would give me $50 if I washed the dirt off of his car (achieved by clicking or clicking-and-dragging I would guess). I would have needed to do that 5 times to enter another race. The racing genre has some bad indie games.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 17, 2022

  A nice old-styled racing game at first glance, but it gets more and more frustrating the more you play it. The controls are fine, the handling is average (most of the time the car is dancing on your fingers, but you'll have some rough struggles specially on the narrow roads), and the visuals are pretty iconic, giving some nice flashbacks to the 16-bit era. Most of the shortcomings come from the design of the tracks (besides the background visuals and lane size, they feel pretty much the same, specially when you have to run through the same 8 landscapes multiple times), the performance of the cars (they have exactly the same stats when maxed out, only different on how they're allocated at the start), and... The final boss. For me, the final boss pretty much ruined the whole experience, challenging the player to a race where his car is faster than yours at max stats, only being overtaken when you use one of the two boosts you get per race, and hoping that you can block him from overtaking you back despite the fact that you have no rear mirror nor sound to know where he will try to pass you by. Most of the game was ok, pretty enjoyable in some parts, but that final race made me lose the drive to finish it, and even to chase the remaining achievements. I really wish I could recommend this game, but after that cold shower of a race, I cannot bring myself to do it.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 21, 2022

  In 90's there was a game the "LOTUS". This game has same vibes.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 10, 2023

  extra bad sound disgusting car physics (turning left/right and crashes) if u want something like retrowave don't buy this shame to stay alive...
• gamedeal user

  Apr 28, 2023

  Eh, it's an ok-ish game. You CAN have fun with it but there's so many glaring issues with the gameplay (I won't be talking about the audio or visuals). - The game features auto and manual transmissions but there's absolutely no pros of going manual, only cons. The top speed is the same and you'll take much more time changing gears when you crash. No reason not to go automatic; - There's also refuel and repair mechanics, which could lead to something interesting like planning when to repair/refuel or when to upgrade some parts. However, you can just let the car run out of fuel or completely trash it during a race and you'll be able to refuel/repair and continue the race as normal..; - Rubberbanding is ridiculous. The top 3 cars will ALWAYS be right behind you; - Turning feels very.. monotonous. You can reach full speed and can turn freely without losing speed. At all. It's weird; - There's no rearview mirror or minimap; - Upgrade all you want, the top 3 will always be ahead of you until..; - The traffic AI. You'll learn to HATE and LOVE it. You'll absolutely LOATHE the way it works since the cars can just decide to jump from lane 1 to 4 on a whim. It's terrible when it happens to you but you'll love it when it happens to the CPU. BTW, you'll NEED them to hinder your opponents otherwise you will NOT be able to catch up and overtake the CPU (unless you use the nitro. Probably both of them); - The nitro has to be bought for each car first and then all you get is 2 per race. That's it; - The nitro mechanic seems to be like a max speed unlocker - if your car's max speed is currently, let's say, 300 kph, using the nitro would remove that limiter and you'd be able to go up to, like, 400 kph. However, once the nitro runs out you'll IMMEDIATELY go back to 300kph, so you won't even get that nice, smooth deceleration after boosting for a while. This feels horrible. This is from 1 hour of gameplay. Maaaaaaybe it gets better further on but I don't expect it to, seeing as these are mainly core mechanics. Should the devs change these somewhat trivial mishaps, I think they'd have a solid game here. All in all, I wouldn't bother unless you really dig the aesthetic and can get it 90% off.