Entertaining cel-shaded racer Inertial Drift with drive on its side to the PlayStation 4 from 7th August, publisher PQube has announced. The arcade racer – which will be available both physically and digitally – sees you using the DualShock 4’s analogue sticks to steer your vehicle around perilous bends, and having gone hands-on with it last year, we’re big fans of the handling.
“While the core premise of twin-stick control remains consistent, one checkpoint-based arcade objective sees us commandeering one of the release’s harder to handle cars; this requires us to brake often and almost feather the drift. After a few attempts, we’re able to almost glide around the circuit entirely on our side,” we explained in our preview.
Fans of legendary PlayStation 2 title Auto Modellista will love this one, but you can get a better look at what to expect courtesy of the trailer embedded above.
[source youtube.com]
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Definitely interested in this, it looks fun.
Why did they have to call it that? They are clearly looking to appeal to the ‘Initial D’ fan base without paying any licensing fees. It’s a bit cheeky.
Anyways, I’d like to see more of this game, but at present the drifting is too unrealistic for me. The way the car turns so fast going into the drift is too arcadey and looks like it will ruin the experience of controlling the drift with precision. Instead each drift looks the same with you just throwing it into the corner as hard as you can each time.
I’m willing to be wrong and love this game though. I do like me some drifting.
@Kienda Well, you could say they're paying homage to Initial D, too.
@get2sammyb yeah, true. But I like being a grumpy old man about these things.
Where are the likes of Ridge Racer these days? I've gone back to my PS3 recently to play some truly great arcade racers that we don't really see anymore
@carlos82 Yes, PS3 has Ridge Racer 7, Daytona USA, I regret I missed OutRun Online Arcade, have to play OutRun 2006 on my 360 instead...
This looks like my type of game.
@Ristar24 I think Ridge Racer 7 is the first game I bought for PS3. I've recently been going through my PS3 digital library and downloading the likes of Daytona USA and Outrun Online Arcade and having an absolute blast with them, even Need for Speed Most wanted before it went fully open world and diluted the experience. I might go on eBay to pick up the Motorstorm games and Sega Rally (I thought that was excellent)
@carlos82 Nice one buying OutRun while you could! I like Sega Rally on PS3, I still break out my Saturn to play the first game. Gravel on PS4 is pretty good as an arcade rally game, performance is a bit rough though.
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