Only ’90s youngsters (largely European ones at that) will keep in mind Gremlin Interactive’s Top Gear 2. A zippy little arcade racer with an important soundtrack, a wonky Mega Drive port, and surprisingly sassy automobiles. After seeing the trailer for Horizon Chase Turbo, which launched yesterday, I needed to double-check simply to ensure that my suspicions had been appropriate; it is a trendy remake/religious successor to Top Gear, proper right down to its talkative cars. No Jeremy Clarkson in sight, you’ll be glad to listen to.
From the seems to be of issues, Horizon Chase Turbo nails the look and sound of this very particular period of racing video games. Gradient-heavy backdrops, track-side objects whizzing previous at inconceivable speeds, and crashes merely slowing your automobile because it pirouettes by the air, earlier than permitting you to renew your sprint to the end line.
It seems to be like a fairly sizable chunk of retro-styled racing, too. 109 tracks throughout 48 environments isn’t a determine to be sniffed at, even when we should always realistically anticipate to see fairly just a few repeated kinds and backgrounds.
The PC model even options split-screen multiplayer for as much as 4 gamers. Once a horribly pixel-dividing, framerate-crushing function again within the day, it’s a much more palatable possibility for contemporary methods working at excessive resolutions. Honestly, it’s shocking that so few video games supply the choice on PC, the place we’re extra prone to have the GPU grunt to spare to drive 4 participant viewscreens.
Disappointingly, it seems there’s no on-line multiplayer performance at current. It appears that anybody in search of human competitors must discover it nearer to dwelling. There is, at the least, an honest vary of single-player modes to undergo, together with what seems to be like a traditional old-school globe-trotting marketing campaign.
Horizon Chase Turbo is out now on Steam & Humble for £15.49/$20.
