driving

For over a decade, the Test Drive series had laid dormant. Now in the corporate hands of Nacon, the open-world car lifestyle simulator has returned. KT Racing have shown an aptitude for solid handling and replicating large environments, but Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, lacks the soul of the originals. […]

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown – PS5 Review

September 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged always online / digital tourism / driving / festival / hong kong island / luxury cars / multiplayer / open world / racing / test drive unlimited solar crown / time trials by Mike

NeoSprint is a top-down/isometric racing game from Costa Rican coders Headless Chicken Games and is one that can trace its lineage back to 1976 with Atari’s grandaddy of the racing genre, Sprint 2 (the confusingly-named prequel to Sprint 1, 4 and 8 – each of which indicates the number of players supported rather than their […]

NeoSprint – PS5 Review

June 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atari / driving / neosprint / racing / retro / super sprint by Richie

Horizon Chase 2, developed by the Brazilian-based Aquiris Game Studio, is a follow-up to 2018’s Horizon Chase Turbo. This arcade-style racing game celebrates the exuberant spirit of ’80s and ’90s “blue sky” racers, taking players on a globe-trotting adventure where the tarmac is your playground and the cops are mercifully […]

Horizon Chase 2 – PS5 Review

June 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / driving / horizon chase 2 / racing by Richie

Turbo Golf Racing is a sports/driving game from Manchester-based devs Hugecalf Studios. Initially released in 2022 on PC, the game has found its way over to consoles but benefits from already having a large player base thanks to it all being cross-platform. But what is it? Well, the lazy explanation […]

Turbo Golf Racing – PS5 Review

May 22, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged driving / golf / rocket league / turbo golf racing by Richie

Inertial Drift is a racing game that was released in 2020 on PS4. Our guy Ian reviewed it back then and kind of liked it but wasn’t overly sold thanks to the erratic difficulty balance and a lack of cohesion in terms of what type of game it wanted to be. […]

Inertial Drift: Twilight Rivals – PS5 Review

November 20, 2022 in PS5 tagged dlc / drifting / driving / i have no idea what initial d is / inertial drift / racing / twilight rivals by Richie

Super Woden GP is an isometric racing game from Spanish software studio ViJuDa that landed on Windows last year but has now found its way across to PSN courtesy of publishers EastAsiaSoft. The developer describes the game as being very much influenced by console games from the ’90s back when top-down […]

Super Woden GP – PS5 Review

October 31, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged driving / isometric / racing / super woden gp by Richie

I don’t envy the job Volition have of taking the Saints Row series to new places. Over the course of four games, the crew began in Stillwater and became masters of both time and space. Just how do you follow that? On paper, a reboot seemed like a sensible idea […]

Saints Row – PS5 Review

September 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bloody millennials / crime / driving / empire building / gang warfare / open world / saints row / third-person shooter / volition by Mike

Slipstream is a racing game from Brazilian-based coder Sandro Luis de Paula, otherwise known as Ansdor. Set somewhere in the 1990s, this arcade-style driving game is a love letter to the Out Run games, ’80s neon visuals, ’90s arcades and synth music and it certainly turned heads when it was released on […]

Slipstream – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 80's / 90s / arcade / driving / out run / racing / slipstream / synth by Richie

It’s been a while since a proper one of these. Gran Turismo 7 is Polyphony’s Digital’s return to the mainline series and effectively celebrates the 25th anniversary of a very specific product. With that comes a lot of familiarity but a few new tweaks that do add some flavour to […]

Gran Turismo 7 – PS5 Review

March 9, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cars / digital polyphony / drifting / driving / gran turismo 7 / online multiplayer / racing / rallying / time trial by Mike

Stillalive Studios managed to impress with me Bus Simulator. The relaxed and charming running of a bus company managed to resonate with me as a regular public transport peasant. Despite this, it had some clear issues with meeting mission objectives and technical issues. Now three years have passed and the […]

Bus Simulator 21 – PS4 Review

September 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bus simulator 21 / driving / job simulator / public transport / route mapping / stillalive studios / tickets please / time-keeping by Mike

Crash Drive 3 is a multiplayer party game from M2H, the Dutch developers who usually better known for their sombre WW1 FPS games Verdun and Tannenburg. Well, this is a markedly different kind of game which instead sees players facing off in multiplayer challenges based around driving. The fundamentals of […]

Crash Drive 3 – PS5 Review

July 12, 2021 in PS5 tagged crash drive 3 / driving / party / racing / stunts by Richie

We reviewed Wreckfest back in 2019, giving the game a very respectable 8/10. Well now, the game has been given a bit of an upgrade and shipped out on PS5. It initially came out as one of the PlayStation Plus free games but by the time you’re reading this, it’s now no […]

Wreckfest – PS5 Review

June 6, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cars / destruction / driving / ps5 remaster / racing / wreckfest by Richie