Recent reviews by zumi

Only recomended with caveats, it's worth a try if you like the genre. I refunded it as I just didn't enjoy it, but I don't think it deserves giving it a negative.

I really wanted to like this and quickly persuaded myself to buy it. However, Wipeout HD Fury is agame I played the crap out of, and hence is the yardstick. Redout controls very well and I appreaciate the skill ceiling; it's not hard to get into the flow of things, even though the slowest ships are much faster than Wipeout's. I didn't play enough to explore all the tracks admittedly, and it's good there are differences to Wipeout in the control, but I'm finding myself really missing the other modes and setting up jumps with your pitch, barrel rolling everywhere to chain up the boosts and clearing massive sections of track.

To be completely honest I'd prefer to play HD Fury again. Redout looks far more up to date graphically, but having gone back to see videos of HD Fury, the backdrops are better and it doesn't look THAT that much worse considering how intensive Redout seems to be. My 660 is getting long in the tooth, but I had to drop down to 1600x900 windowed to get sold 60fps with most things on normal and epic view dist. I've seen sub 40fps hits in places. It doesn't look that perceptively worse at lower settings which is good.

Unfortunately, to me Wipeout HD Fury is simply a more complete game, which I hope is a point that Redout can reach eventually.

Some other minor negatives are the lack of resolution options in the game, it has custom resolutions, windowed and borderless available in the config files only. More detail on what the graphics settings actually do could be useful, eg. for post, High and Epic appear to add depth of field and ambient occulsion respectively. As it's a game you need a controller this is being VERY picky, but mouse control in the menus would be nice. The music is fine but not as good as Wipeout's always was.