Pacer Review (PlayStation 4)
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PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customize your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.
Pros:
- Awesome graphics.
- 15.15gb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Anti Gravity racing gameplay.
- An optional tutorial section in career.
- Three modes-quick play/career/online.
- Online leaderboards with a top 5 leaderboard showing on each track.
- Song list-can turn songs on and off.
- Pilot stats-full breakdown of everything you have done so far in the game both online and offline.
- Garage-3 main areas-cosmetics (base/exhaust/teail/front/side/rear/hood), performance (engine/handling/braking/antigravity/defence) and weapons (left weapon/left mod 1/left mod 2/right weapon/right mod 1/right mod 2).
- Each ship has a loadout you can save plus four default load-outs based on performance or weapons.
- Online-lobby setup, server list, and matchmaking. You can set to private servers via a password system.
- Four-speed classes-FF3000/FF2000/FF1000 and Elite.
- Four default ship classes-Drifter, Agility, Defensive and high speed.
- Four default weapon classes-Long range, defensive, track control, and disruptive.
- Ten teams with unique ships and flags.
- Three default load-outs of cards that affect stats.
- Wipeout influenced gameplay.
- Three driving views-close, far, and cockpit (first person).
- Speed boosts and pickups that are both defensive and offensive on the track.
- Tech credits-currency to buy upgrades and cosmetics for your ships.
- Explosive soundtrack with drum and bass, techno from people like LFO, Squarepusher, Dub FX, and Cold Storage.
- Fast-paced hover racing.
- Initial flyover of the track.
- End of race breakdown on things like overtakes, takedown, etc.
- Controls-accelerate, boost, left and right weapons, rearview, air brakes for left and right.
- Quickplay modes-race, Time Trial, speed lap, destruction, Elimination, endurance, storm, and flowmentum.
- Fast loading times.
- Tracks-eight of them with three variations on each of them which are-reverse/night and mirrored.
- Eleven weapons to buy and equip.
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Cons:
- No HDR support.
- The tutorial is fine but is just a series of races with a small text pop up.
- Can’t rebind controls.
- A bit laggy on the menu.
- No music controls.
- Cheap Ai moves/tactics.
- The learning curve with the controls especially air brakes.
- Loading games can sometimes hang on the loading screen.
- Few cases of the slowdown.
