When it comes to retro games, you’ll hear some developers talk about how it’s most ideal to not try to recreate retro games exactly as they were. Instead, the goal should be to recreate how those games made the developer feel, and to bring in some modern elements to make a game that exists as a perfectly suitable modern game, but also pays homage to those classic games. Based on my hands-on time with Horizon Chase, Aquiris’ tribute to classic racing games, it could just prove to strike that balance quite well.
The mechanics are simple enough to where you have just left/right steering buttons, a turbo boost, and of course, the gas pedal. But there’s no braking that you control, you just have to let off the accelerator during turns. The game has that tight feel of many of the 2D racing games back in the day, but thanks to the 3D engine that it’s running in, it feels great because everything actually exists. You’re actually bumping into cars! Plus, the low-poly look of Horizon Chase is killer, again straddling that line between looking old-school while also being modern, to a certain degree. It looks fantastic on modern, high-resolution displays. The soundtrack comes off well, too.
Horizon Chase releases for $2.99 next Thursday, August 20th, and for fans of racing games that aren’t entirely realistic, and pay homage to the 2D racers of the 8-bit and 16-bit era? This might just be a must-have.
Just got into this and struggling to keep my water bar up.
Make sure you have the corresponding skill and the outfit. Plus try to max the room to maximize the pay out😉👍
Shameless. Effective. I love it.
This was a good game at first but felt kind of repetitive and empty after a few days. Good free game but I would have liked a deeper challenge.
Agreed. I would love if they took this success and really fleshed it out with more dialogue and options, I guess like Simpsons tapped out did. Guess we'll have to wait and see if they think they have a money printing machine on their hands.
Much too easy. Maxed to 200 in no time. Needs updating, more rooms, and higher difficulty. Bored in no time.
Not diggin Vault Boy's new hairdo.
Funny that a game that requires such a commitment would advertise on an app for one night stands.
Tasos, I believe Tinder is more focused on short term rather than eternal love.
Which is why I added the ellipsis to that sentence ;)
Except that time when you didn't... or am I not seeing an update you posted?
In the published version I ended up going with "well" as a stand in for ellipsis, so you are correct there :) But yes, was trying to be subtle ;)
Still need to fix the damn game.