There have been some darkish instances for sci-fi racing video games after Sony closed Wipeout developer Studio Liverpool in 2012. As Nintendo left F-Zero to languish, high-speed antigrav racers turned a kind of “do not make ’em like they used to” genres for a couple of years, till indie video games like Redout and BallisticNG began to fill the void. There are a bunch of those video games now, however nearly all of them take after Wipeout greater than F-Zero.
Then there’s Aero GPX, which appears F-Zero as heeeeell.
This indie racer from developer Aaron McDevitt, which has a Steam web page filled with mesmerizing gifs, is clearly emulating the F-Zero X / GX video games in Nintendo’s collection, which despatched you corkscrewing round tubular tracks at frankly absurd speeds. Aero GPX appears prefer it’s significantly centered on the aggressive facet of F-Zero, with a pair methods to slam your ship into different racers to knock them out of the working.
Aero GPX has a shiny and bubbly cel shaded aesthetic, however in motion it appears manic, with ships doing spin assaults at one another at 1,500 kilometers per hour. The motion right here would possibly conjure up some painful reminiscences for those who ever tried to beat F-Zero GX’s notoriously troublesome story mode or its grand prix at larger difficulties. Significantly, that recreation was not messing round. However there actually hasn’t been a racing recreation that quick and brutal since, no less than not one with F-Zero’s relentlessly twisty tracks.
To my information there’s actually solely been one different indie successor to F-Zero in the previous couple of years, and that is Tremendous Pilot. It has been in early entry since 2018 and appears prefer it actually will get the pace and observe design good, although with much less emphasis on attacking different racers. However you can play it proper now, whereas Aero GPX is presently gearing up for a Kickstarter marketing campaign. What a deal with it would be to have two riffs on among the best racing video games ever made each obtainable on PC.
