Interesting post-apocalyptic bike fight/platforming recreation Steel Rats was first introduced in October of final 12 months (accompanied by an oddly cut CGI trailer) – we’ve bought the primary official gameplay footage inside, exhibiting off simply how a lot you are able to do on two wheels. Lots, I’d think about, when one in every of them transforms right into a buzzsaw able to scything by concrete and metallic alike.
Looking like a post-apocalyptic tackle Excite Bike (or possibly Joe Danger), gameplay appears to contain managing pace and the angle of your bike whereas switching between a number of distinct lanes. Ideally you’ll need to keep away from crashing headlong into obstacles whereas maneuvering so that you could convey your bike’s weapons to bear on no matter offended murderbot is obstructing your means. There’s clearly extra focus right here on positioning than shifting your weight on the bike, a minimum of.
A key characteristic of the sport appears to be the reworking entrance wheel in your bike, permitting you to noticed straight by smaller obstacles and robots, and in addition adhere to surfaces to drive up sheer partitions and even upside-down if required. Activating your blade-wheel in midair additionally appears to behave as a lunging assault, permitting you to change your trajectory in mid-air. If nothing else it appears mechanically attention-grabbing, and I’d fairly strive one thing uncommon and recent than yet one more nigh-identical precision platformer patterned after Super Meat Boy.
Developers Tate Multimedia aren’t any strangers to video games involving life-or-death stunts atop two wheels and a screaming engine, as that they had beforehand developed the Urban Trial Freestyle collection. While these earlier video games felt extra like low cost pretenders to Redlynx’s Trials collection crown, Steel Rats appears to have a a lot stronger id of its personal, even when some comparisons will be drawn to different motorcycle-themed video games.
There’s no agency launch date for Steel Rats at current, however Tate Multimedia are capturing for a launch this 12 months. You can see a little bit extra of the sport on its official site here, together with an intensive gallery of gameplay and cutscene/intro screenshots.
