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This means it's a free for all once you hit the road.
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The premise of the game is that you take part in a series of illegal races on roads across the USA. And you will need to learn those attacks quickly, because things get nasty in a violent-but-so-much-fun Carmageddon kind of way. You can perform a lean, a fast steer, and slow steer, and use three ways to attack fellow riders and cops: kick, punch, and swing. First, although it may be an arcade-style game with little realism, Road Rash offers more than a few ways to steer the bike. Now, let's talk about the good stuff, of which Road Rash has plenty. And I have already mentioned the lack of real-world physics, but that's a design choice rather than a flaw. The music is also horrible - you will most likely turn it off after the first few tunes (luckily you won't have to hear it, since this CD-rip is missing the music to save space). Very few things are drawn to scale, the background scenery looks like discarded Hollywood cardboard sets, and the riders, cars, and pedestrians are all very pixellated. It's laughably bad, and inexplicably so considering how Papyrus' NASCAR Racing series looked at that time. The graphics, by 1996 standards, is dismal. Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first.


Not that it's a bad thing at all - even die-hard racing fans will have a blast driving up the wrong lane, slamming into passing cars, and beating cops around with an iron bar. While the game may sound like a 'realistic' motorcycle racing game ( Motocross comes to mind) - especially with Papyrus' name behind it, it is actually an arcade-style game that pays little attention to real-world physics. The last one I lose at the most, because somebody always gets away-but rather than being failed back to the menu I just lose a portion of my max health and keep going with my run.Road Rash is one of the rare gems that play much better than it looks.Īlthough very dated when released, the game's simple charm attracted a small but loyal following.
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There are multiple randomly assigned formats, from a straight "place third or better" race to a time trial to a rampage where I have to kill a certain number of members of a gang before they escape. I choose a bike and rider, skip the intro, and dive right into the first race.

It's easier to think of in terms of runs, like Binding of Isaac or Spelunky. I don't play Road Redemption like Road Rash. The tracks are randomly generated and after crashing too many times you have to start over, an arcade version of permadeath. This is still a racing game about pulling up alongside another biker, wailing on them with a pipe, and then being taken out by an oncoming truck because you weren't paying attention, but it's also being called a "rogue-lite" by developers Pixel Dash. Throughout Early Access it's been adapting to suit modern players. A couple of decades later Road Redemption, a spiritual successor to Road Rash funded via Kickstarter, finds its audience in a very different place.
