So much more than a old classic, it still being the reason for living of many people around the world including me!
Graphics: 8
Sound: 9
Value: 8
Tilt: 10
Re-volt is so much more than a classic game from the past, it still being the life style and reason for living of many people around the world including me. Don't be fooled by that fake non-sense review made by Gamespot! I consider this a great site, but in this case I believe they were sleepy or anything when they played Re-volt to avail it, 'cause they totally ignored all the cool things from the game and didn't give a fraction of its deserved attention!
"Re-volt has its share of problems" that will be quickly fully forgotten when you feel the impressive game playability. This was a revolutionary game for that time, 1999, 'cause the programmers managed to build an incredible realistic physics engine that still beating many famous driving games nowadays. Who has once driven a RC car knows how they behave when trying to turn it at accelerated speeds or when you crash it, and the game really kick butts putting up all those cool stuff into the screen with perfect realism.
This may be an extremely challenging experience for new players, it really needs a lot of practice for you to master the basics of driving in the simulation mode (the starting with all those cars realistically crashing is exciting and amazing!!). Its SO MUCH more fun than other racing games, cause it asks for your attention on driving by very each second, sometimes when you blink your eyes or take the hand out of the keyboard to scratch the nose or any other reason, you may see your car crashing or losing the direction! Pick-ups are really fun principally original and in this factor it beats any other racing game: there are chasing self-propelled rocket that are cool and realistic, water balloons that makes you feel like a urchin boy from the neighborhood, a funny and sometimes frustating countdown bomb that transforsms the antenna in a wick and passes to other cars if touched. Whatever they make the game unrealistic or a quite unfair (not so much cause you also need ability and malice for use them), pickups make the game SO MUCH funnier than it already is without them (you can turn them off in the options).
Battle Tag mode on online playing is funny too, players start on a map and have to find the star, once a car gets it, it gets a different coloration and a countdown the player has to clear, when other players get close to the colored car, they starts to consume their own countdowns. When a player manages to finish its own countdown, it wins. All the tracks for the game are very well modeled and textured (pay attention on the game date 1999!!), and their circuits were very well designed, making the racing flow cool and excitingly addictive. IF YOU GET TIRED FROM THE GAME TRACKS, YOU MAY DOWNLOAD MORE AND MORE CUSTOM TRACKS (with graphics same or better from those from the original tracks from the game). I'm telling of custom tracks really freely modeled, not lego Track Editor tracks you can create using the in-game program. There are more than a thousand custom tracks you can download from a lot of sites, like RV-League and Re-Volt Zone Tracks (well... and cars too).. There is a program for playing Re-volt online too, really excellent, www.rvhouse.net. And a increasing community racing forum for the game http://z8.invisionfree.com/Revolt_RC_Racing.
What I most wanted to transmit with my words, is that Re-volt still one of my reliable loyal games since years and I've known a lot of "more advanced" racing games but ANY OTHER could make me feel the same as playing Re-volt... for its fast and reflexive gaming, for its fun.. if you have never played Re-volt, give you a chance, find it anywhere and PLAY IT! And we may see at online playing!