Welcome to our review of Pacer, a game only standing out because of its great soundtrack.
With the depth of a simulation and the excitement and combat of arcade racers, PACER provides a true test of player skill, reflexes, and strategy.
Choose from 4 speed classes ranging from 400 km/h – 1000 km/h, then engage in the Campaign or a single-player race via 8 different game modes. Choose from four speed classes and then test your mettle in a variety of game modes including Elimination, Endurance and PACER’s unique ‘Flowmentum’ and ‘Storm’. Develop from a trainee Pilot in career mode and challenge yourself in blisteringly fast races in an effort to become the PACER world champion.
Prepare to battle your opponents on 14 unique and challenging tracks complete with interchangeable variants (Night, Mirrored, Reverse).
Get behind the controls of 5 varied Craft and 11 weapons, each with their own unique characteristics. The Garage allows you to fully customize your look and tune many performance and weapons parameters.
Online Multiplayer takes PACER to another level supporting up to 10 players, 7 game modes and VOIP. Play matchmade races via our dedicated servers or create custom lobbies and test your skills in an effort to reach the top spot on our worldwide leaderboards.
Create a playlist from 80+ songs, featuring original tracks by CoLD SToRAGE and an extensive licensed library from named artists.
Basis aims to be a high-paced game and it delivers exactly that, yet there is something that bothers me. I am afraid that the high difficulty will influence its Accessibility for everybody. My first few attempts at this game, yes I did say attempt here, where old thwarted by me driving into the wall the entire time and I was really struggling with the controls at first.
I honestly think that if this game has a demo, many people would not bother with the full game. Sure, it looks amazing but the higher accessibility does ruin things, at least it did for me. As Pacer Resembles some of the old-time futuristic racing classics, titles like wipeout and F-zero come to mind And those are some big titles and shoes to fill.
Now not all is bad in this game, there is so much variety and so many options are present that it is a little overwhelming at first. Many different racing pods, skins, racing tracks, a great soundtrack, the ability to change difficulty levels, adjustable speeds, … Full disclosure, the game is really big and I don’t think I actually tried everything at the moment of writing my review. For one I did not go online and try online racing.
Pacer does many things right and brings us a high octane racing game with a futuristic look and feel, just wish it was more accessible for the non-racers among us. Yes, you can crash your car and yes, this looks damn amazing. Sadly always coming in last … Not as much fun as you think, right?
In conclusion, Pacer only gave me a mediocre gaming experience and despite not being great at racing games, I had the feeling I was really bad at this one. If not for the amazing soundtrack, I would have quit playing hours ago, which sadly tells all.
