Nitrome’s second racing game! Much better than the first one! …Not much to say, otherwise. This is a game that’s evidently meant to be played multiplayer, and the fact that this can go up to four players yet at the same time can only be played on a single keyboard perhaps speaks to why it feels… rather limited, compared to the games surrounding it. You move your UFO around the track by tapping the boost button over and over again, you turn to try and avoid hitting obstacles or falling off the course, you complete three laps and win. There are only three courses, only two unique obstacles, and not even any AI UFOs to race against — doing the game singleplayer merely has you racing against the clock, which leaves a game that’s… effectively ‘done’ in ten minutes. Evidently, this was more meant to be something endlessly replayable — something for whenever the eight-year-old me had free time at the computer lab and four friends all willing to play Twister on the keyboard — though even then I’m not sure this has enough here to return to after a couple runthroughs of each of the racetracks. More like a demo for further multiplayer capabilities — and, perhaps, for the non-zero amount of racing games Nitrome would make after this point — rather than something that really stands on its own.

Reviewed on Apr 17, 2024


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