Reviews for Freegear

[lawman316]

You hit me where it hurt, man.

I'm a HUGE Top Gear fan. I played that game top-to-bottom on every difficulty multiple times over. That said, seeing a spiritual successor made by another Top Gear fan is great, though the upgrades add one of Top Gear 2's only endearing qualities to Top Gear 1's gameplay, improving the formula substantially.

The only complaints I have are these: 1. Turning is a little too tight in the beginning, making it too hard to pass cars you're trying to get around. Corner turning is fine, but maybe loosen the turning on straightaways to make it easier to maneuver around vehicles.

2. Don't care for the music. It's not horrible, but for one it lacks the charm of the original Top Gear game's tunes, and for another, I don't care for techno.

Those complaints are minor quibbles, though. This is a well-built game.

[Reafer]

Nicely done

This was a great game!

Pros:
- Good control
- Good sound
- Familiar genre
- It's a game!

Con(only one)
- No break button

Keep up the good work!

[Dioccino]

great

I have a very strong urge to play Road Rash now just because that's the last game I played that used this kinda engine. You've done an excellent job of recreating such a classic racing system, it looks good and even feels kinda rigid just like the old ones too. Props on that! The fact is though that it is repetitive, kinda dull and simplistic (if any) race AI. One could say that it is faithful to the retro games of old but I do think you could put your own spin on it to offer more variety. Sadly I don't have any ideas off the top of my head that would improve it.

[davrby]

Nice

I realy like it is is only to bad that there is no break button but I loved it, it is just like some of the snes games I used to play

[SubNoctem]

Total Nostalgia Kick!

I instantly fell in love with this game for one reason initially; It brings back lots of fond memories of Rad Racer I and II for the NES that I used to play ALL the time when I was a little kid. In fact, Rad Racer was one of the first video games I had ever played.

After playing your game for a while, I realized it was much more then just a re-imagining of that classic game. You have quite a comprehensive racing sim here. The controls, customization, and upgrades are simple, yet good enough to keep you racing for more. You have a good variety of tracks and scenery with the day/night and weather features, and the difficulty curve is damn near perfect. Adding the quick race with completely customizable track specs was a good addition, as well as the option for manual or automatic. Really the only thing you need more of is music, and maybe like a "radio" option, so the player can change the audio track at will.

This is arguably the best racing games of its type around. Great work man!