Motorcycle fight platformer Steel Rats now has a demo (and is half value till February 14th), so you’ll be able to strive it for your self as a substitute of simply being baffled by that mixture of phrases. Tate Multimedia constructed an uncommon game for certain, drawing inspiration from the Redlynx’s Trials collection, Excite Bike, Joe Danger and extra, and wrapping all of it in an alt-history 1940s setting. There’s a military of offended junk robots inflicting hassle, and solely a gang of bikers with super-science weaponry can save the day. Below, a video explaining the demo and its surprisingly technical controls a bit.
Ian Boudreau reviewed Steel Rats when it launched final 12 months, and principally bounced off it. It’s not a game about bombing down the street and letting nothing stand in your manner – if you wish to journey your bike off into the horizon, you would possibly need to look elsewhere. Instead, it’s a really technical platformer. While the characters (who double as additional lives) don’t have an enormous quantity of distinction between them, simply mastering the fundamentals is fairly tough. While it’s rather a lot more durable to crash or dismount than in a Trials game, there’s quite a lot of strikes and buttons concerned in getting from A to B.
Personally, I loved the game a bit greater than Ian, but it surely took some time for me to get used to its uncommon physics. Gravity is gentle right here, and bikes pivot lazily round a centre axis. It’s a kind of games the place you should have the subsequent second or two of actions deliberate out in your head otherwise you’ll find yourself flailing and overcompensating. The odd really feel makes it a kind of quirky games with a singular look and quite a lot of playful concepts that’ll discover their area of interest with some and never others, so ideally suited for a demo. Take it for a take a look at drive your self and see what you make of it.
The Steel Rats demo is on the market here on GOG (and here for the total game), or on the Steam retailer web page here. The game is half value on each shops, bringing it all the way down to £8/€10/$10 till February 14th.
