Review: Overpass (PlayStation 4)
Take control of big-name buggies and quads to negotiate scree slopes, steep inclines and various obstacles on extreme off-road and technically challenging tracks. Find the best route, and manage your acceleration, differentials, and drivetrain to dominate in local or online competitions.
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 15.96gb download size.
- Opening tutorial events where you learn the two-vehicle types, selecting diff and dealing with all types of terrain.
- Platinum trophy.
- Terrain traversal racing gameplay.
- Four modes-Career, Quick race, Custom challenge and multiplayer.
- Career has four leagues-Amateur/Pro/Elite/Hardcore.
- Respawn vehicle button.
- Can change diff on the go-AWD/4WD/2WD.
- Learn all about how you can navigate the terrain.
- Career is a sprawling Web style map that unlocks new events as you play them.
- Career is all about climbing the leaderboard based on your performance.
- Earn rep, level up and unlock new customizable items.
- Full damage model-can see on screen the damage indicators and pay for repairs between races if it hits 25% left then you run the risk of the vehicle being sidelined for races.
- Quick race-six venues, six tracks, 12 UTV and seven ATV vehicles and you can choose to set up events or a sandbox.
- Sandbox-do what you want.
- Custom challenges are a powerful creator/editor to make your own events.
- Multiplayer-Online/hot seat/split-screen.
- Online-create or quick join but does also have an invite friend option.
- Four weather types-Overcast, Sunny, Sunset and night time.
- Two race types-hill climb and obstacles.
- Race against the clock in every event.
- Nice looking locations.
Cons:
- Can’t change controls or layout.
- Many loading screens.
- Lots of loading.
- No online leaderboards.
- Music doesn’t really fit with a more rock-pop ensemble.
- Very basic online.
- Events take a long time thanks to multi-lap and track length.
- Way to easy to fail/miss obstacles, you only need to hit it on a wrong angle and you get an instant heavy penalty.
- Controls are not as tight as you would hope.
- Just a whole load of time trials.
- Unlocks/rewards are not appealing.
- Constant screen tearing and frame drops.
- Really easy to topple the vehicle over.
