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Retro Racing Review (iOS)

Posted by Joshua Kannegiesser, 5 days ago

Game play Overview

On your mark, get set, Go! Retro Racing is a top down view arcade racing game that will take get your turbo-like retro racing onyou back to the 8-bit style of R.C. Pro-Am and Super Sprint. Hop in the driver seat of an indie car of your choice, but choose wisely for each vehicle has a different set of stats that could decide the outcome of your race. Vehicle stats to consider are top speed, acceleration, and tires. Don’t like any of the Vehicles that are available to you, no sweat, Retro Racing has three unlockable Vehicles that you can purchase for a dollar. There are twelve tracks to race on.

Out on the track there are power ups to help further enhance the condition of your vehicle. The three core attributes of the Vehicle along with a nitro boost can be picked up by simply driving over the icon on the track associated with that attribute.

There’s more to worry about than the other racers! The track crew must be on strike? Oil slicks, ruff road patches, and road cones are left everywhere to slow down your progress. If you’re falling behind the pack leader take one of Room a zoom zoom?the many alternate short cuts throughout most of the tracks.

Game Controls

The control of Retro Racing is a simple three onscreen button configuration; gas, left, and right. In the option setting you can change the button lay out from gas, left, right to left, right, gas. A large portion of Retro racing’s difficulty comes from the controls themselves. They work, but feel slow to respond, most of the time you will over shoot the turn and have to counter steer back. Doing this will cause your vehicle to both fish tale and swerve or crash into an object. Sometimes moving your finger from left to right buttons gives off a slight movement delay in turning as well.

Retro Racing can only be played by holding the device in a portrait position which causes an annoying problem. When traveling horizontally either left to right or vice versa your view is at a disadvantage to when the next turn is approaching, but when traveling vertical you are at an advantage to the next turn.

 Our Rating for Retro Racing Review (iOS)
5.0
Replay
Once I placed in a race and unlocked the next course I never went back to play it again. There just wasn�t any need to do so and after a while all the tracks look the same.
7.0
Graphics
The tracks look similar, but they look clean and crisp, the do a good job at making the game look retro. Objects are recognizable.
7.0
Sound
Rock n� roll style helps get you in the racing mood.
5.0
Gameplay
The game play lacks in depth and content. The poor controls make the vehicles hard to handle. The vehicles are always �slow� looking unless on nitro.
4.0
Multiplayer/Online Content
Multiplayer and online play comes in the form of challenging your friend to beat your top time score on tracks. Retro Racing has game center support. You can connect to twitter as well as email to brag to your friends about your race times.
5.5
Overall
Retro Racing has some potential, but needs fine tuning. If you�re a fan of this style of racing, wait for an update if any happen.

Rating: 0.0, votes: 0



 
 

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