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Extensive single player mode // 12-player online multiplayer with career integration // Leaderboards // Great gameplay
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Little Racers STREET is amazing. There. I’ve said it. milkstone have made some fine games but this one is absolutely the best to date, and
it’s deservedly riding high in the Top Rated charts because it’s really that good. And it’s one tiny little dollar.
That’s one dollar. Here’s a list of things you can buy for a dollar, and how much entertainment they will provide for that dollar.
Little Racers STREET: TONS OF HOURS
A can of Coca Cola: 10 minutes
An mp3 on iTunes: 3 minutes
This week’s HYPEGAF iOS game: 57 seconds
A lady of ill repute: 24 seconds
I think you can see where the value lies. It's Little Racers STREET, before anyone says anything.
So what is it? You may have guessed by now, but it’s a racing game, the cars are quite small, and it takes places on the STREET. That’s
‘the street,’ rather than ‘da street,’ there’s no stupid Need for Speed shit here.
The game is more like Forza, in a way. You start with a bank of credits and have to earn more to buy better cars or upgrade the ones
you’ve got to be more competitive in faster fields, thus earning more credits. The customisation options aren’t as in-depth as Forza, but
they do have one awesome quality.
They noticeably change the way the car feels to drive.
You can upgrade your power, turning, grip and nitro.
Power affects your top speed.
Turning affects how quickly your car can turn.
Grip affects... how much grip you have.
Nitro affects how long your nitro takes to recharge.
Each of those can be levelled up five times, and even going up a few levels and then taking your car out for a race will result in a car that
feels so different to how it did before. Faster. More efficient round corners. All sorts of subtle tweaks. It’s really quite incredible, and means
that you can genuinely customise the cars to your own preferred driving style. The handling in this game really needs to be experienced,
because as top-down racers go it’s basically the nicest feeling one I can remember. It’s certainly far, far better than anything on Xbox LIVE
Arcade, by quite some distance.
For further customisation, you can also change the colours of the cars and the patterns. Pimp your rides.
So you’ve customised your car, what now? Take it out for a drive!
Little Racers STREET features one huge area with loads of tracks based on different sections and orders of corners. The city is brilliantly
designed, with chicanes, hairpins, wide straights, tiny alleyways, a roundabout, a waterfall, jumps, drops, just so much variety. Every track
feels different and offers a different challenge, and it never gets boring. All you do is choose the track you want to enter (from a choice of
five at a time) and go! Overall, there are something like 250 events or more to play in. You won’t run out any time soon.
While you’re racing events, you’re earning credits for upgrades and new cars, and also completing challenges. Challenges are things like
winning a certain number of races, or using certain cars, or reaching higher ranks among the AI drivers. The best thing about the career
mode?
It can be done online as well as offline.
Aside from the AI rankings, you can complete every challenge online, whether it’s winning with a certain car or just completing races at B
Class, your career carries on when you’re online. You’ll also earn credits online exactly the same way you earn them offline. The whole
thing is integrated wonderfully.
I honestly don’t have a bad word to say about it. Sometimes when it snows there is a small amount of slowdown when the screen is busy
but it honestly feels absurd to complain when the game is so good, and so cheap. The next update is probably going to include the world on
a stick, and it’ll still be one dollar.
NeoGAF is basically the last place on the internet to catch on to this gem. SORT YOURSELVES OUT, GUYS. Here are some impressions from
players on other forums that are playing the game.
So here’s a look at what your dollar gets you:
30 cars.
Over 50 tracks spread over five classes of car, making 250 events.
Tons of challenges.
12-Player online multiplayer.
Time trials.
Leaderboards.
Me, as an AI driver.
A developer that cares.
Don’t underestimate that last one. Seriously. When LRS launched, it did so as a purely single-player game. The fans (and there were fans
very quickly) requested multiplayer and so milkstone had an update ready within days and we had our multiplayer – they just threw in
online leaderboards as a bonus. The leaderboards cried out for a time trial mode. We asked for it, and a few weeks later milkstone had
updated the game again with time trials. Obviously there’s a limit to what they can do, but it’s just so awesome to see a developer love
their game and love the community around it so much that they just want to do everything they possibly can to make people happy.
There’s a tear in my eye, you guys.
Their love for the community is how I’ve ended up as an AI driver. They asked on twitter for people to send their names to them so that
they could be inserted as AI drivers, for no reason other than for lols. And so there I am.
I’ll tell you what. I’m so confident that you’ll love this game, that if you download the free trial and you don’t enjoy it, I’ll give you your
money back. Can’t say fairer than that.
So you’ve played the trial and decided that it’s so good that you feel almost guilty just paying one single dollar for something so packed full
of awesome? Here’s the rest of milkstone’s back catalogue on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, so you can throw a few more pennies their way and
have even more awesome. Games are in order of excellence.
Seriously, NeoGAF. It’s that good. If you’ve enjoyed literally a single game about driving before, you have to try this.
--DOWNLOAD IT HERE!--
(If you're in a country that doesn't get XBLIGs, download there after setting up a free gamertag for a country that does get them!)
--DOWNLOAD THE GAME TO YOUR XBOX 360 WITH THIS HANDY LINK!--
Little Racers STREET is amazing. There. I’ve said it. milkstone have made some fine games but this one is absolutely the best to date, and
it’s deservedly riding high in the Top Rated charts because it’s really that good. And it’s one tiny little dollar.
That’s one dollar. Here’s a list of things you can buy for a dollar, and how much entertainment they will provide for that dollar.
Little Racers STREET: TONS OF HOURS
A can of Coca Cola: 10 minutes
An mp3 on iTunes: 3 minutes
This week’s HYPEGAF iOS game: 57 seconds
A lady of ill repute: 24 seconds
I think you can see where the value lies. It's Little Racers STREET, before anyone says anything.
So what is it? You may have guessed by now, but it’s a racing game, the cars are quite small, and it takes places on the STREET. That’s
‘the street,’ rather than ‘da street,’ there’s no stupid Need for Speed shit here.
The game is more like Forza, in a way. You start with a bank of credits and have to earn more to buy better cars or upgrade the ones
you’ve got to be more competitive in faster fields, thus earning more credits. The customisation options aren’t as in-depth as Forza, but
they do have one awesome quality.
They noticeably change the way the car feels to drive.
You can upgrade your power, turning, grip and nitro.
Power affects your top speed.
Turning affects how quickly your car can turn.
Grip affects... how much grip you have.
Nitro affects how long your nitro takes to recharge.
Each of those can be levelled up five times, and even going up a few levels and then taking your car out for a race will result in a car that
feels so different to how it did before. Faster. More efficient round corners. All sorts of subtle tweaks. It’s really quite incredible, and means
that you can genuinely customise the cars to your own preferred driving style. The handling in this game really needs to be experienced,
because as top-down racers go it’s basically the nicest feeling one I can remember. It’s certainly far, far better than anything on Xbox LIVE
Arcade, by quite some distance.
For further customisation, you can also change the colours of the cars and the patterns. Pimp your rides.
So you’ve customised your car, what now? Take it out for a drive!
Little Racers STREET features one huge area with loads of tracks based on different sections and orders of corners. The city is brilliantly
designed, with chicanes, hairpins, wide straights, tiny alleyways, a roundabout, a waterfall, jumps, drops, just so much variety. Every track
feels different and offers a different challenge, and it never gets boring. All you do is choose the track you want to enter (from a choice of
five at a time) and go! Overall, there are something like 250 events or more to play in. You won’t run out any time soon.
While you’re racing events, you’re earning credits for upgrades and new cars, and also completing challenges. Challenges are things like
winning a certain number of races, or using certain cars, or reaching higher ranks among the AI drivers. The best thing about the career
mode?
It can be done online as well as offline.
Aside from the AI rankings, you can complete every challenge online, whether it’s winning with a certain car or just completing races at B
Class, your career carries on when you’re online. You’ll also earn credits online exactly the same way you earn them offline. The whole
thing is integrated wonderfully.
I honestly don’t have a bad word to say about it. Sometimes when it snows there is a small amount of slowdown when the screen is busy
but it honestly feels absurd to complain when the game is so good, and so cheap. The next update is probably going to include the world on
a stick, and it’ll still be one dollar.
NeoGAF is basically the last place on the internet to catch on to this gem. SORT YOURSELVES OUT, GUYS. Here are some impressions from
players on other forums that are playing the game.
agparrot on Eurogamer said:
multiClunk on rllmukforum said:
Beetroot_Bertie on Eurogamer said:
mrpranny on rllmukforum said:
Popzeus on Eurogamer said:
Literally not a single person anywhere said:
So here’s a look at what your dollar gets you:
30 cars.
Over 50 tracks spread over five classes of car, making 250 events.
Tons of challenges.
12-Player online multiplayer.
Time trials.
Leaderboards.
Me, as an AI driver.
A developer that cares.
Don’t underestimate that last one. Seriously. When LRS launched, it did so as a purely single-player game. The fans (and there were fans
very quickly) requested multiplayer and so milkstone had an update ready within days and we had our multiplayer – they just threw in
online leaderboards as a bonus. The leaderboards cried out for a time trial mode. We asked for it, and a few weeks later milkstone had
updated the game again with time trials. Obviously there’s a limit to what they can do, but it’s just so awesome to see a developer love
their game and love the community around it so much that they just want to do everything they possibly can to make people happy.
There’s a tear in my eye, you guys.
Their love for the community is how I’ve ended up as an AI driver. They asked on twitter for people to send their names to them so that
they could be inserted as AI drivers, for no reason other than for lols. And so there I am.
I’ll tell you what. I’m so confident that you’ll love this game, that if you download the free trial and you don’t enjoy it, I’ll give you your
money back. Can’t say fairer than that.
So you’ve played the trial and decided that it’s so good that you feel almost guilty just paying one single dollar for something so packed full
of awesome? Here’s the rest of milkstone’s back catalogue on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, so you can throw a few more pennies their way and
have even more awesome. Games are in order of excellence.
Seriously, NeoGAF. It’s that good. If you’ve enjoyed literally a single game about driving before, you have to try this.
--DOWNLOAD IT HERE!--
(If you're in a country that doesn't get XBLIGs, download there after setting up a free gamertag for a country that does get them!)
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