Recent reviews by Crowbar-Man

+ Weapons varieties with alt fire (starting melee/pistol to Zeus shock rifle)
+ Powerups (dual-wield, quad damage, haste, slowmo, infinite ammo)
+ Movement (easy bhop mechanic)
+ Enemy varieties (level 1 shotgunner to big b0i demoman)
+ Optimization GREAT (no need to elaborate by the looks of it)

- Soundtracks (most of them are generic)
- Graphic and art design, low poly and uninspiring to be iconic or memorable
- Map design on Episode 1 too narrow most of the time spending backwards during combat, becoming more open on later maps, Episode 3 more like a joke
- Game content in Episode 3 cut out short like the dev run out of ideas and the maps are effortless (its a filler)
- Transition from map to map seems like a new arena/killhouse, no consistency in theme
- There's no progression carry over to next map, it reset your stats (weapons, HP, armor) back to square one after each map
- AI being bulletsponges starting from mid-tier to high-tier (HAVOC diff seems like a playing RPG game with level 1 dmg even with late game weapons)
- Difficulty differences, more monsters and high-tier monsters on higher difficulties but not considering narrow spaces which resulting either you kill them or dying to shocking numbers of NPCs (started to get annoying when hitscan enemies spamming everywhere). Unbalanced in short, beatable but not so enjoyable
- Boss fight only appear in the last map of episode 3

Score 6.5/10
Original price not worth it better grab it on sale

Remastered well done with the AI improvements and new maps
Congratulations again to the teams for bringing up the classics back to life WITHOUT replacing the old version (if they didn't prefer the remaster).

My favourite quote is when he said "It's Boltgun time" and then started to Boltgun the entire planet

Cars
- Variety to choose: From classic muscle to modern cars. From 3-wheel bikes to big trucks.
Handling
- Easy: You can play with single hand
Damage
- Mid-tier damage: Deformation is there but not that detailed, tyres will not detached on heavy damage and explodes when damage bar reach to zero (it's fine for arcade reckless driving)
Tracks
- Variety of tracks to choose from farm to city track and racing track with many things to destroys and explodes
Environmental
- Lot of things and props to ram or hit (gas station, propane tank, explosive barrels, windmill)
- Railroads with actual train that can damaged the racer
Optimization
- Optimized for my current build: i5-10400f and RTX 3050 @1080p, medium-high settings, 80-120fps


Story
- It's there as a placeholder
Characters
- Copy paste from other games (for the meme i guess?)
Upgrades
- Performance upgrades and some visuals like car paints and license plate
Game Modes
- Race, Cross race, Derby, Escape, Stunts (Similar to Flatout but the stunt tracks are lacking)
Soundtracks
- Early 2000's punk rock and nu metal


Sense of Speed
- Only when you press nitrous
Handling
- Floating handling for the most of the time (car always flipped when hitting small things while cornering)
Damage
- Simple technical damage (damaged engine will slowed down your car)
- Hitbox for the AI broken on certain angle
Physics
- Broken when crashing into small objects sends your car flying, weightless like the car filled with air
- Ramming some destructible props even by using big cars slowed you down
Car Unlock System
- Every vehicles need to be purchase at junkyard and fix the barebone car using in-game money in order to drive (tiresome)
Controls
- No keybinding for keyboard and only presets for controller (current update)
AI Difficulty
- Not balanced: If you start at 8th place using stock cars and clean driving, you can't catch up (on higher difficulties)
Audio
- Engine sounds generic (for 5 to 6 vehicles tested so far). Engine sound also barely audible.
Multiplayer
- No online, just split-screen (remote-play support)

Conclusion: It's a mixed bag Flatout-like racing game that blend with arcade and unnecassary simulation features. Not to forget the broken floating handling and physics which result a sad killjoy experience.

P/s: I will comeback for this game after they fix these, especially the handling and physics.

Hunt Down The Freeman but 10x better and free

This is why I hate video games. It appeals to the male fantasy

Pro tip: If you wanna kill something, shoot till it dies

One of the kart racing games ever made

Stop whining, just install the optimization mods and you are good to go.
Before Grove Street Games ♥♥♥♥ everything even worse than the worst port known to Rockstar

Oh wow they remove GTA Trilogy and then Max Payne now. Guess they gonna ruin Bully and GTA IV too then replace with Defective Edition. GET YO ♥♥♥♥ TOGETHER ROCKSTAR. SOBER THE ♥♥♥♥ UP.