Welcome to our review of Formula Retro Racing, the perfect retro game for the racing enthusiast.
Formula Retro Racing is a retro-style arcade racing game that’s influenced by the classic arcade racing games of the early ’90s. Featuring the fast and exciting gameplay that the genre is known for, Formula Retro Racing captures the essence of the old-school racing games with crisp low poly visuals, retro soundtrack, and high-speed action. Race through a diverse range of tracks across various game modes to beat your personal best times and compete in the Formula Retro Racing leaderboards.
Retro arcade racing action. Low poly visuals in HD and 4K at 60fps. 8 unique tracks each with varying difficulty. Classic arcade checkpoint racing game mode and a New ‘Eliminator’ game mode. Destructible cars with crazy crash physics, Best lap, and a Race time online leaderboards for each track.
If we look at this game through the eyes of a current-day racing game enthusiast, this is a six out of ten score maximum, it is very simplistic and well, very retro. But look at it exactly that way and you get a no-frills, all thrills racing game from the good old days when games were easy and did not require hundreds of game mechanics.
You steer left, the car drives left. You pull towards the right and your car responds properly. Braking, … is all done properly, none of that fancy racing stuff like drifting or curbing. Formula Retro Racing is a back-to-basics game and I love it for this. Sure, it is rather easy in its approach, but it is still challenging enough to really keep you busy.
Graphically, this game is a bit weird, I played it on Xbox Series X and it was so crisp, yet trying to impersonate a feeling that you are playing an Outrun game from the good old Sega arcade days. No, it is smooth like a freshly waxed car ought to be and I just loved it.
Several tracks to pick from, some serious difficulty spikes when you tinker with them, and all in all, a great experience for someone like me, who generally dislikes the genre ever since they started introducing overly realistic mechanics.
Now the hardest part is to really give it a rating because I do feel it does an amazing job at what it promises, you really do get back that feeling from games that are from an era long past, but on the other hand, expectations and comparisons to current day racing games can not be ignored.
Personally and in conclusion, I do feel there are two ratings we can give. Compare it to current day games and you got a six. Rate it for that terrific retro feeling and I would even give it a 9… Adding both up and dividing by two, you get the idea.
