Race Arcade

Race Online is a nice looking retro racer from top down perspective and is somewhat fun to play but if you're looking similar gameplay than in legendary Slicks 'n' Slide or Turbosliders you will be disappointed. The car handling is quite different and isn't what you would expect for a car as they move and handle like solid blocks, get stuck easily and you can't reverse you way out. There's not much difference between how cars (sports car, formula, tractor, etc.) handle and move. Also seems that track obstacle's or car's collision model isn't quite what the graphics show. Overall the game feels ready and I didn't experience any bugs although the game crashed couple of times. The tracks are a mixed bunch, some are nice to race but often tracks are a bit annoying (due AI & collision model) and track profile isn't "professional" style. Some tracks look unfinished. The career mode is quite easy as the only difficulty is to get pass the AI cars after start and not to get stuck to them or pu...

Neat little top down retro racer, with a lot of variety and a track editor. The soundtrack gets you in the mood for racing as well with a good number of uptempo tunes. Takes some skill as the AI is fairly unforgiving and quite aggressive. The cars have solid physics also. Watch those drifts, a drunk driving simulator this isn't!! A better than decent time waster and a really playable product considering it's early access. In fact, looks not too far off from being finished to me, Very polished. Can only get better with time, Especially once multiplayer is in place. For now, im going to score this a well deserved 8/10.

No option to adjust laps per race :-/ This could become a great game if it would be possible to mod it a bit and to create custom races with more than 4 laps. Also pitstops are missing. Nice base, but it's limiting its own success in my view.

Update (4/27/2016): Online multiplayer was added to the game long after early adopters like me stopped playing it, so there's no-one to play with. The game just leaves you sitting in the lobby forever. It's such a shame, because it should be a lot of fun. Alas, I haven't had a single online race, yet. Perhaps when they officially release the game, mulitiplayer will see some action. --- Single-player is great. It's fun, addictive and feels complete. I think all the bugs have been ironed out now. You start with a choice of cars, race them in career mode over increasingly challenging tracks and earn in-game currency to upgrade your vehicles. Your AI opponents also upgrade their cars (or bikes, or tractors or UFOs!) so the game remains challenging even when you're fully upgraded. I feel like the AI is sometimes a bit too aggressive, but you can always restart a race if you get pushed off the track. - works great with multiple xbox360 controllers - no support for racing wheels, but the ...

No. Competition is stiff and there is still the grand ol daddy of Slicks'n'Slide that shows how this is done. I was hoping this could be a modern day replacement for it but alas it is not to be. To start with the bugs need to be addressed. ex. multiplayer problems, campaigns finishing prematurely which leads to player unlocking everything by doing just one race which finishes the season. So this game gets close to being a decent light version of the old fun games but bugs prevent it from reaching that. Game looks better on video and screenshots so unless something changes it's a narrow 'No' for me.

couldnt be more disappointed with a potential trip down nostalgia lane. from inability to reverse , yet can rotate on the spot like a roomba... to the incessant ai's tendency to stick onto you like a magnetic asshole... to each car handling like a boat. bad.

I've not played the game for long but felt I had to write a review already to balance out some of the negative reviews that are either A: old and don't reflect the game as it is now or B: simply stupid and trying to be funny and failing miserably (god I hate idiots who write 'amusing' reviews). If you like Supersprint, Slicks'n'slide and other top down racers then I'm sure you will enjoy this. Loads of tracks, good handling and an excellent local multiplayer option where you can see the whole track on screen at once (you can split screen too if you want to). Single player isn't bad either and the AI seems to put up a challenge without seeming unfair or superhuman. Not a lot of players online that I can see, so if you only want it for Online Multiplayer you might want to look elsewhere or need to arrange times to play with other people. At this price (and especially on sale) you can't go wrong.

I liked the game, but the fact its called "Race Online" and doesnt have that feature im going to give it a thumbs down..

Well, basically a good nice little 2d arcade racing game with good gameplay and lots of potential. But it is abandoned by its developers... leaving a lot of bugs and room for improvements. Online Multiplayer would be fun... but is dead. Would appreciate an open source version of this game. For the current price of 12€ i can not recommend to buy this game!

Race Arcade is a fun top-down racer but with some more polishing it could have been a much greater game! On the plus side is nice old school graphics (if you like that sort of thing), car handling, lots of tracks and a track editor. The down side is that the main game element, the carrer mode, doesn't last long at all. I finished the carrer mode in just over one hour. Once you've finished carrer mode, you only have single races, time trials and online mode. Single races and time trials can be pretty fun but are far less engaging compared to the carrer mode. I can't say much about the online mode since I never found anyone to race against. Note that the AI is pretty weak and the entire carrer mode is easily won using the standard car. In my mind the game would have been so much better if the developers had just put some more effort into it. E.g. * Configurable single races, like number of laps and number of opponents * More carrer races, like randomized cup races (just randomize what...