Review: Xenon Racer (PlayStation 4)
It’s the year 2030, the era of flying vehicles. A one-off championship for wheel based vehicles has been organized, with cutting-edge electric cars boosted by Xenon gas. Drift through cities like Tokyo and Dubai as fast as you can and claim eternal glory!
Pros:
- Glorious HD graphics.
- 6.32gb download size.
- Opening race tutorial.
- Platinum trophy.
- Racing gameplay.
- Five modes-championship/fast race/splitscreen/edge/mode.
- Graphics setting-performance or quality.
- Three difficulties-easy, normal and hard.
- Fast race-arcade mode where you pick car/laps/weather/location.
- Drift-handbrake, brake accelerate or left off and reapply to accelerate. You earn a boost from drifting.
- Photo mode.
- Decent loading times.
- Proper Ridge racer feels from the controls to the layout to the general atmosphere.
- Bouncy happy hardcore style soundtrack.
- Voice over guy.
- Championship–branching Web of events, earn rewards and pick your route.
- Five views from bumper to far.
- Edge mode-time attack, checkpoint, elimination, and free mode.
- Deep car customization-big catalog of decals and made easier by breaking into parts-vehicle, body mask, wheels and rims, front wing, middle wing, back wing, window and ERS (turbo).
- Online-fast join, lobby, create lobby and leaderboards.
- Day/night tracks.
- Invite a friend option.
- Arcade racer.
- Cool locations.
- Clear hud.
- Easy to get into.
- Expansive championship.
Cons:
- Drifting is really hard to kick in regardless of the method.
- Has a damage bar that once full resets you to the track. Feels unneeded.
- Inconsistent opponent Ai.
- Bad rubber and Ai.
- Can be hard to make out the track at times.
- Only one control scheme. starting a race is clumsy and doesn’t allow you to properly time your launch.
- Slow to unlock cars.
