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Title: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Alex Heartnet on November 17, 2011, 10:58:50 pm

I recently stumbled upon a completely awesome freeware racing game.
http://nitronic-rush.com/
It describes itself as a 'survival racing game' - you have to drive through tracks filled with all kinds of crazy things from jumps to chainsaws.
You can also do all kinds of crazy stunts in mid-air.
Oh, and your car has thrusters on all sides, and it can fly and do barrel rolls.
It's almost like a cross between Wipeout and Rush 2049

The game recommends using an Xbox 360 controller, but me being the stubborn PC gamer that I am, I just use the keyboard - which works suprisingly well.

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Mefustae on November 18, 2011, 01:32:36 am

FOX, DO A BARREL ROLL!

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: JGZinv on November 18, 2011, 01:46:23 am

looks good... Tron had a baby with Extreme G and Crash Bandicoot racing...

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: jr2 on November 18, 2011, 08:05:04 am

Downloading now.

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Enzo03 on November 18, 2011, 12:04:26 pm

I will be sure to grab this game when I can.

I like crazy racing games. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVBBcV3JOQ)

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Flipside on November 18, 2011, 03:42:49 pm

Downloaded it, I'll give it a go later this evening and see what I think, looks good from the Video though :D

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Davros on November 19, 2011, 12:07:26 am

another racing game you may like (only a demo)
nitro stunt racing
http://www.nitrostuntracing.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=8&id=17&Itemid=56

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Flipside on November 19, 2011, 05:38:28 pm

All in all, found it to be a very good game for a freeware title. It looks good, plays well, though the handling is a little too analogue, but considering the obvious Tron references, that shouldn't be surprising. The campaign is pretty easy, but the challenge levels are very tough to make up for it :)

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Alex Heartnet on November 19, 2011, 06:34:45 pm

The campaign has to be easy, for the sake of those who haven't been playing racing games all their life.  For a while the campaign was just the right difficulty for me - although I tend to quickly become good at any given game that I haven't played before, and now I can conquer the hardcore levels without too much problems.

While many of the challenge levels are pretty cool, on some of them it is not clear where the the actual end of the level is once you get near the end (I'm looking at you, Volcano).

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Ravenholme on November 20, 2011, 02:00:51 pm

This is what's been missing from racing games. Barring Trackmania, there hasn't been a huge focus of late on the crazy kind of fun that you got from things like Rollcage (I want a new rollcage), so this is a welcome blast of fresh air.

Hope to see these guys go on to do more, they're clearly damn talented.

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: Unknown Target on November 22, 2011, 11:07:24 am

Quote from: Ravenholme on November 20, 2011, 02:00:51 pm

This is what's been missing from racing games. Barring Trackmania, there hasn't been a huge focus of late on the crazy kind of fun that you got from things like Rollcage (I want a new rollcage), so this is a welcome blast of fresh air.

Hope to see these guys go on to do more, they're clearly damn talented.

*swoops in*

Check out SkyDrift!

*swoops out*

:D

Title: Re: Nitronic Rush - Racing has never been this awesome
Post by: ssmit132 on November 23, 2011, 03:29:55 am

I had a go of it today, and I thought it was excellent fun. :)