Rocky Ride Reviews

Rocky Ride Positives: + Cool concept + Ok graphics + Upgrades + Powerups + Cool and nice tracks with beautiful landscapes Negatives: - The most horrible handling I have ever encountered in a racing game - Feels like only 2 wheels are touching the track when steering - Weird physics - Upgrading makes almost no difference to the bad handling - Adjusting control sensitivity does not help enough (ended up with 65%, but it was still bad) - Only one car - Lots of aliasing - Bad collisions - You get stuck in your opponents all the time - If you drive out of the track once or twice, youll likely end up last (on the higher difficulty) - Respawn of the car can take you back in mid air, or in a steep turn - Respawn button takes too long to react - Very frustrating and unnessecary hard to play because of the above Had hopes that this game could take me back to the Dethkarz and Trust Twist'n Turn years. But it led me only frustrated over the bad controls and issues. The game has potential, but it needs a whole lot of work. And before that is done, skip this one. Total Score: 3.5/10

There is some aspects to improve upon this game. I would like to firmly criticise the controls first. The grip and stability control are big problems with the game, and even at max control you still struggle to keep the car on four wheels. It's important that it needs a change to address that. I propose that it would've been better if you've scrapped the upgrade system entirely and just focused on the racing part (along with some simple car stability improvements [not flipping over, not overturing, not going off the track whenever there is an uphill turn followed by a sharp flat and etcetera]). As regards to the racing part: There are arguably too many cars and a pileup is mostly unavoidable during races due to the AI trying to keep themselves in one racing line, and in turn interfering with the player's current position. The best way I can think of fixing this is to generate a unique racing line for each driver that they follow and incorporate a simple collision avoidance into their programming. The last feature that should be noted in causing unfair difficulty is the camera itself. While the other points should be addressed as fast as possible, I will give more leniency for the camera as it's arguably the least problematic of the bunch. All I want to see for that is that I want to see what's ahead of me when going on turns and an option to turn off cinematic camera for jumps. I see a lot of potential for the game to be better and I wish that you would oblige yourself to update the game with the following fixes. The game itself (when I'm not having frustrating moments because of the points above) is really a calm experience. I would also like to see night races one day; It would be fascinating seeing the stars above with a exotically illuminated track and glowing waters.