Review: Road Rage (PlayStation 4)
Road Rage is an over-the-top, knock-down-drag-out motorcycle combat game that tests your skill on a range of badass bikes. Race, fight and hustle your way through the ranks of an insane outlaw motorcycle gang.
Pros:
- Average graphics.
- 1.82GB Download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Road Rash inspired motorcycle fighting gameplay.
- Open map design.
- Earn cash and weapons as you progress.
- Police wanted level. a 5-star system like GTA with Police presence increasing with the stars.
- Varied mission types from elimination, Racing to circuit and stunt runs.
- Customise your bike- Buy new parts and paint everything.
- Twelve bikes to unlock and buy.
- Multiplayer- Online, Quick online and split-screen.
- A wide variety of weapons from bats to knives to fire extinguisher.
- 18 Drivers to unlock and play as.
- Easy trophies.
- Multiple difficulties from easy to hard.
- Story missions have to be driven to.
- Free roam available from the off.
- The whole map is open from the start.
- Rock/metal soundtrack.
Cons:
- No tutorial just occasional hard to read pop-ups.
- Graphics look more at home on a PlayStation 2.
- Bad hit detection.
- Can drive through lamp posts.
- Cheesy dialogue.
- Overly sensitive wobbly controls.
- Tedious cutscenes between events that play out as text conversations in an app.
- Icons pop up over other icons making it all look messy and hard to read.
- Respawning is a bit jank as you can spawn out of bounds, Inside a car and other weirdness.
- Slow fighting animations meaning you have to plan to hit someone you cant see first.
- Uninspiring soundtrack.
- Swearing feels forced and only added to seem edgy.
- Delay on button presses in the menu.
- Long loading times.
- Doesn’t explain things very well.
- AI is really inconsistent and overpowered a lot of the time.
- Until you finish the story you cant do any event you want.
- The world is just dead. No people walking around, Few cars and it is just so barren and empty.
