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If you lived in the nineties and you had a sixteen -bit Sega Genesis console, then there are probably three parts of Road Rash one of your favorite games on it. Nothing else could argue with these at first glance at first glance motorcycle races on the excitement of persecution, rage of road battles and pleasure from the joint passage of a difficult route with a school comrade on a divided screen.

The Road Rash action unfolded in the alternative United States of America, on the roads of which the relationship of the gang of motorcyclists massively found out. Civil cars rolled peacefully on the idyllic American highway – they were not at all embarrassed by the presence of a dozen bikers who maneuver between machines and exchanging shots of chains and mounts. Occasionally, police officers on motorcycles were connected to the pursuit: having caught up the latter in the biker procession, they began to pound it with batons.

In Road Rash 1-3 on Genesis, all this was displayed extremely schematically, and we had to conceive paintings of bikers on our own. In the 1994 Road Rash sequel, the 3DO and PC consoles were interspersed with moviegoers – the biker and biker sketches, “biker and girl”, “biker and policeman”, the director of which could well be Paul Verkhoven times “Robokop”.

Place under cacti

Attempts to bring the series to the full 3D on Nintendo 64 and the first PlayStation were unsuccessful – in the creation Road Rash 64 Electronic Arts did not participate at all … The last game of the series was Road Rash: Jail Break On Game Boy Advance in 2003. Since then there have been rumors about the resurrection of the franchise – the chief designer of the original trilogy Deng Gaisler even talked about Kickstarter for the new Road Rash.

But in the end, the nearest analogue of the famous series was the project financed on the same Kikstarter Road Redemption – The debut game of the New Orleans Studio Darkseas Games. The approval of Heisler was received by the authors, and the initials of the games are not coincided by chance ..

So, we are finally in modern polygonal 3D! Otherwise, around the cleanest Road Rash: a black highway of a highway, a desert, cacti, hills and tower of high -voltage programs, civilian cars in both directions.

[[Bullet]] This remake waited for a year at the ninety-seventh, when a full-fledged 3D began to appear.

Suddenly two heavy chrome motorcycles fly into the frame. Here the racer in a black ninja costume caught up with the driver in a complete samurai armor. One brings a baseball bat, the other is a samurai sword … After the exchange of the shots, the racers fly apart, but both manage to stay in the saddle. A couple of seconds of feverish wagging between cars – and they continue the pursuit. This time, the samurai meets the opponent with a gun-machine gun over the shoulder. The ninja deftly evades and pulls from the scabbard a cut of a double -barreled shotgun.

An unexpected sight for lovers of the original series appears on the screen – the ninja catches a samurai into the crossroads … But then both have to distract a whole wave of random motorcyclists: the ninja gets a club on the back of the racer in the yellow overalls, the samurai kicks out under the truck in red ..

The chase continues past the signs "The road is closed", through the maze of orange cones. The ninja and samurai fly off the highway and soar into the air from the hill … In flight (above the ground – ten meters), the ninja reduces the distance, shakes the katana picture and cuts off his head.

RED Road Redemption

The games of the Road Rash series were completely bloodless, the monstrous injuries of motorcyclists were more supposed in them than demonstrated. In Road RedMption, blood fountains will whip from wounded rivals!

The developers promise modern collision physics and the ability to break through the destroyed objects – but all this is present in other motorcycle militants. But the fountains of red liquid in such games we will see almost the first time.

In addition to the desert, the races pass in cities where it will be possible to skip on a motorcycle from the roof to the roof. The developers promise that the streets of the cities will be “clogged with traffic”, and this implies a completely different image of the race and the rhythm of the exchange of chains, swords, trimming pipes and baseball bit than on roofs or deserted highways.

[[Bullet]] then – at the beginning of the two thousandth, when the quality of the graphics began to grow sharply.

The above gentlemanly set of road weapons is well familiar to us by Road Rash. But there will also be exclusive racing special equipment – a police shocker and a chrome baseball bat, braided with barbed wire.

The arsenal is supplemented by pistols, automatic rifles and hunting rifles, which can be charged with both bullets and buckshot. The use of firearms is the most dubious moment Road Redemption. Still, bullets are faster than racers, and instead of the battle for the title of the best rider, the game can turn into a competition for the place of the best shooter from the “desert eagle” or Kalashnikov machine gun. But the developers promise that there will be few cartridges in the game, there is no autonomus and most of the conflicts should be resolved with the help of “rough power and dumb (well, or piercing-cutting) objects”.

In exchange of blows there will be counterattacks and parries – a heavier weapon gives an advantage over the opponent, but even an unarmed racer can contrive and hit the enemy from the road with a blow. So the game is a racing arcade in the first place, the game in the second and the shooter only in the third.

Children of anarchy

The protagonist of Road Redemption is a biker released after eight years (it would definitely play Ryan Gosling in the cinema), forced to start a career in his motorcycle club. In the course of the development of the plot, it turns out that the club is teeming with informers and traitors responsible for the term received by the hero-baker. So we will chop your heads with a samurai sword not only just like that, but also for the https://sister-site.org/lucky-manor/ matter. The ultimate goal of the game is to become the king of the club, at the same time subjugating all the channels of drug trafficking in the Middle American West.

[[Bullet]] Then motorcycles appeared in GTA, and Road Rash somehow forgotten. The Kickstarter era is the perfect time for remake.

Healthy elements GTA felt not only in the plot component. In addition to racing, Road Redemption will have a missile system – these are also racing, but with side purposes and more generous rewards.

Among the types of plot missions are an ambush (kill as many enemy racers returning home after a successful business), an escape (after an unsuccessful drug dealer from the enemy gang, jumping from the roof to the roof) and an attack on the escort of the column of trucks). The rest of the races fit into more traditional sixteen -bit categories: to overtake everyone, to escape from the police, to catch up and be sure to kill the president of a rival motorcycle club.

Police in Road Redemption will hunt for you on motorcycles, cars and helicopters – all like Genesis, only now a police helicopter can be knocked out of a grenade launcher. The goals of ordinary racing races can be very unexpected – bikers do not go for gold, silver and bronze medals, but for a banking armored car broken on the side of the road, cash.

The most interesting point in the Road Rash series was the need to spend money earned in the race on a new bike or spare parts – otherwise we either hopelessly lagged behind competitors or simply fell apart. Not completely from the game you were knocked out not by police arrest or contact with asphalt, but by their economic consequences.

[[Bullet]] to hit an opponent-motorcyclist with a bat, rushing on a motorcycle, is a high calm, pristine poetry.

There will be both a spare parts store and the possibility of customization in Road Redemption. In the motorcycle park-sports bikes, choppers, cafe-raisers and custom motorcycles. It is only unclear how hard economic sanctions will be for defeat in races, and whether they will be in our time compassionate for the player.

Instead of the good old split-scrinal-a online multiplayer, in which you can get down with friends in the road gangs and arrange a showdown with other gangs. All routes and most missions from a solitary regime should be available online – only there will be not lonely ninja with samurai, but whole cavalcades of riders in decorated with wild graffiti leather jackets.

Perhaps not a single series in the history of computer games deserves a remake on modern technologies as Road Rash. This is the best series and the best game for one of the best game platforms of the past; excellent uninhabited (no post -apocalypse!) setting; Biker subculture, in itself dictating both the soundtrack, the plot, and the general style of design. Bad punk rock, quotes from the series “Children of anarchy”, pulled into a motorcycle glove fist, breaking through the screen in the game screensaver, all this in Road Redemption is simply obliged to be present.

As for the gameplay, the developers only need not to get involved in independent creativity and carefully copy Road Rash 3. It seems to us that Road Redemption may turn out to be an extremely successful project – and Darkseas Games can collect money for a remake of a lawlessly skather arcade Skitchin ’!

We will wait?

Motorcycle showdowns using bit, swords and firearms. The main technique is to push the opponent with a foot from the highway at full speed, as usual. This is Road Rash remake.

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