Xenon Racer
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In the near future, the official racing federation has ordered a seasons pause from racing, to allow teams to ease into the transition to flying vehicles. To bridge this gap, top hybrid car manufacturers host a rogue championship for rookie drivers on the streets of cities worldwide. Their advanced cars drive on electricity and Xenon gas, resulting in crazy speeds. Get behind the wheel, keep your adrenaline in check and drift through the streets. Boost to absurd speeds and become the ultimate Xenon Racer!
Steam User 2
I just got 100% of the achievements so here are some of my thoughts about the game.
The game feels really good to play. There was a bit of a curve when you begin learning how to control your car properly, and then understanding that each car actually feels different from one another. Eventually you get to the point where you may have a favorite car that you perform the best/feel most comfortable with, and it becomes the main car that you use. It was really satisfying to feel and see myself becoming better with my car each time that I played.
All of the tracks feel pretty different from one another, and I think each track is really interesting, and has their own memorable sections. Once you get to the faster cars, it feels good to really nail corners and having to manage your speed during drifts. You definitely have to kinda learn each track if you want to beat the time trials, though with varying difficulty; I think I remember one of the Nevada variations being particularly tight. I found though that the time trials were still fun because it felt good to smoothly and quickly make your way around the track.
the AI/Difficultly is kinda confusing. Sometimes it feels like the AI are incredibly stupid (Semi-related: watching your own AI car after you win the race bumble around the track and hitting every wall is very entertaining), and other times it feels like they can put insane pressure on you and the only thing you can really do about it is body block them (In the very first racing series, which I hadn't gotten 1st place in til the very last achievement, has one particularly hard AI that I'm sure is there specifically to keep new players from winning immediately). I remember reading somebody commenting on the community pages about how the AI is very easy to overtake in the beginning, but if they overtake you at some point in the race, they're impossible to overtake again. Honestly, I completely agree with this.
Online is basically dead, as far as I can tell. Nobody ever had any lobbies going whenever I played. Luckily, the game lets you make lobbies with AI players, so you can get the required online play achievements, but otherwise I don't think you'll find anybody on. This is less the game's fault and more about how popular the game was and how old it is now (nearly 4 years old now, I think?). I had never even heard of this game before playing it, and it had just caught my eye when steam recommended it to me, and I got it because I like racing games lol. I just kinda wish I could play against other people to really gauge how well others can play and where I would fit into that. Instead, though, I guess my ego will be forever inflated by being able to have beaten all of the game's wacky AI.
---Minor Spoilers Ahead, if you care about that kind of thing---
The final sequence is a cool idea but I think it could've been better. This is really only a nitpick and mostly my opinion. Basically, the final race is against this small airplane/drone kind of thing. The idea is sick to me, but you only get to see this thing at the very beginning when they show you it, and maybe a couple times during the actual "race," since this thing races around the track, taking a longer path than you. I think it could be improved if there was maybe a smaller window somewhere on your screen displaying the drone, or maybe if the minimap for this specific race changed to show the drone and the path that it needed to take, with your track also to scale. In any case, getting ready for the race still felt cool and it was actually a fairly challenging level. It took me a handful of tries and even when I did beat it, it was so close that I didn't realize that I had won.
I'm not sure why I 100% this game, but I thought it was fun. I'm not very hopeful for a sequel, but if that ever came then I'd probably play it.
Steam User 2
Fun Arcade game. While the car handling is very sluggish its decent enough to play. Lot of drifting required to properly handle cars.
Pros:
+ Simple to learn
+ Good graphics
+ Good AI
Cons:
- Sluggish handling model
- lack of track variations
Steam User 3
I am 32 years old.
My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.
When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.
Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.
With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.
After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.
Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.
Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.
Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.
Thank you.
Steam User 2
Not recommend for casual player
Bot is too strong to beat
The handling is okay but with a map design some of it's hard to control a car to drift pass it without crashing the corner (Unless you're very fast thinking but like I said not recommend for casual player)
But it's fun though (sorry for bad English skill)
Steam User 2
come to terms that it's not Ridge Racer
Not trying to sell anyone on Xenon Racer. its nothing more than decent and functional modern arcade racer if you allow it to be. I myself don't feel like it's something that i need to replay.
I do think there is no fighting against how the game was designed, its mechanics, the strange balancing act to keeping most cars reliable, or even the restrictive nature of drifting, isnt something you need to struggle with.
Accepting that, it's accessible at normal difficulty
Xenon boosting system is actually the best type. Its one of the few mechanics that feels closer to the later Ridge Racers.
I think my biggest issue was, Its hard to judge an upcoming corner. Part of the problem is that the track design isn't particularly memorable.
SCORE: 6/10