The longer you drift, the faster you recharge your boost gauge (it has 4 bars). To make it, the best way is to drift beautifully in every curve on the way. You have a limited amount of time to reach the next checkpoint on each track – if time runs out, the game is over. The mechanics are as simple as way back then since SEGA’s Outrun. Don’t expect to tweak the suspension or your gear settings here. Add to that another option to choose automatic or manual transmission and that’s the amount of choice you can make before racing. Apart from the characters having their own voice-over in-game, they have slightly different cars you can choose from, with different parameters for acceleration, drift and speed. Still, it’s refreshing to look at how 3D games can differentiate themselves and still look absolutely great.Īt the beginning you have to select your driver, and there’s about 8 of them. I cannot say you will have much time to have a look at them since your focus is on speed, speed, and more speed. Pretty much every track is gorgeous, from the vivid color palettes, to the fine work with polygons to create decors surrounding the tracks. And HotShot Racing’s devs have great artists, if I may say so. If you have a good artistic sense, it can work. And I must say it’s pretty well done – it reminds me of Interstate 76 (now an old game in its own right) when it came out, going against the trend of more textures and realism by falling back to bare polygons. Let’s say it’s “inspired” by racers from SEGA such as Virtua Racer (for the looks and drift mechanics) and Daytona USA for the rest (cars, general feel). HotShot Racing will seem INCREDIBLY familiar to you if you ever stepped into arcades in the early 90s. The point may also be to bring such games to other platforms while they used to be exclusives of one console or another.Īnyway. Do they sell well enough because of the semi-brand recognition for older gamers? Does the appeal to nostalgia work? It probably does well enough as there’s no sign of the trend stopping any time soon. No, here we are witnessing something different, with (mostly) indie devs cloning/recreating much older games or genres that are not really popular anymore. When Doom came out, within a couple of years every big publisher had a Doom-like game in their line-up. What’s interesting to me is that they are NOT cloning recent games – that used to be a thing. Then there’s this Wipe-out clone without the official name, BallisticNG. 1 fighter, clearly looking like and playing like Bushido Blade, without the trademark.
Is it just me, or is there a complete category of games that are just building on past titles (almost with carbon copy precision) without using the original brand name? Just yesterday I saw an upcoming indie title, a 1 vs. Hey! An arcade racer! It’s been a long time! Before I go on and talk about HotShot Racing, a tangent first.
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