To unlock new tracks, characters or upgrades, you need to earn style points. Within each track, you’ll also find new routes and shortcuts to exploit. This makes every mission into a risk/reward choice.Īs you progress through the game, you’ll race through numerous courses across multiple environments. If you do lose, you then get a negative star score, which subtracts from your total. For instance, you can choose to go straight for the three star goal but that will be incredibly difficult. The game sets out what earns you one, two or three stars – however, instead of completing the mission and seeing what you earn, you choose what you’re aiming for. Like many games nowadays, the campaign is gated via a total number of stars. Once I got over my disappointment in the visuals though, I found the career mode to be intriguing. While it works fine, and didn’t make me feel unwell, it looks incredibly poor in this mode. The game takes several steps backwards in VR, with the draw distance becoming incredibly short. However, if the image quality remains the same, I’m not sure I’ll wait around. At the time of writing, the game only supports the headset in time attack and hot lap modes but the developers promise to add more support via patches. One of the primary reasons I asked to review this game, outside of my love for arcade racers, was the inclusion of VR support. There are also frequent frame-drops which distract rather than break the game. The game looks like a late PlayStation 3 title at times with flat textures and foliage popping in. I’ve seen some impressive games on this platform and it must be said, Moto Racer 4 is simply not one of them. As the opening logos attest, the game runs on the Unreal 4 engine. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show. As you begin, you’ll notice the game is not entirely constricted by the laws of physics either, we can careen around a corner, rubbing the barrier without immediately falling off. When you load up your first race, you are met by vibrant environments, colourful bikes and even more thumping music.
Its loud menu music and colourful mid-action background immediately informs you that this is meant to be fun. To begin with, Moto Racer 4 wears its arcade racer ambitions on its sleeve.