![]() ![]() There is a Career mode that will take you from the Berlin Wall to Moscow spread across five locations with three challenging tracks in each city and more than 20 tracks to unlock in Quick Race. Each of the cars has various handling, speed, and acceleration stats and these are reflected quite visibly in the way each car performs both in the turns and the straight sections. Steering is super-sensitive playing with a gamepad and you need only make very tiny micro adjustments. Best to use gentle feathering of the throttle to maintain a safe speed, as crashes and resetting your car on the track take several seconds. Don’t even think about using the handbrake in this game and even using the standard brake can send you sharply crashing into a wall or off the track. You can be any color you want as long as you can keep the car on the track, which can be challenging given the super-twitching controls. Of course all strategy is out the window when you are in the lead. Once they drive over a boost strip that strip vanishes thus eliminating your chance of boosting. There is a certain level of strategy involved while racing, at least when you are trailing because you want to make sure to be a different color than the cars ahead of you. Other than the color-matching elements of the game this is a rather simple and standard racer that is as simple as it is fun. There is no penalty for driving in a non-matching color in Electro Ride just the loss of boost which often means your competition will fly by you. Your car will likely change colors a lot during a race, and it will take fast reflexes and/or good track memorization to hit as many matching color strips as possible.Įlements of the game reminded me of Trailblazers, another arcade racer from 2018 where you laid down strips of paint on the track that would boost you and your team while slowing down the opposition. It doesn’t matter really because there are numerous stars scattered about the track that will change your car’s neon accents during the race, and depending on your car’s current color at the time you will want to steer toward and drive along matching colored strips in the track for a boost of speed. ![]() Before the race you get to choose the color of your car, cyan, magenta, or yellow. I’m glad I did get to review this because I quickly became addicted to the unique visuals, epic soundtrack, and the whole Eastern Bloc design aesthetic including everything from cars to locations.Įlectro Ride is a classic arcade racing game where you pretty much mash the gas, try to stay on the psychedelic tracks, and cross the finish line first, but as you might expect, there is a hook a fun little design element that plays into the whole futuristic neon art-deco design. That can be explained by the fact I don’t own a Switch, but I still wanted to cover the game so here we are. Electro Ride: The Neon Racing has been out on PC since July and has finally arrived on Switch, which explains the timing of this review but not the fact I’m still reviewing the PC version. ![]()
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