Road Redemption

Overall, Road Redemption is a brilliantly fun spiritual successor to the Road Rash series, and absolutely exceeded my expectations. Its exhilarating, and surprisingly tactical gameplay compensate for lackluster visuals and a few environmental collision issues. Road Redemption is an absolute blast to play, and I thoroughly recommend it.

For as much as I loved Road Rash, it would be hard to go back to after playing Road Redemption. This feels like the worthy successor Road Rash has always deserved. It was a little gem of a series lost in time; the only thing missing is the corny FMV cutscenes.

The spiritual successor of Road Rash, Road Redemption, offers tons of unadulterated fun. Many may find its driving too Arcady for their taste, but the rogue-like campaign experience and the tense off-road battles reward the player. The beautiful OST and a very nice old school oriented couch co-op give the game some extra lift.

The updated graphics and physics engine are sure to bring enjoyment and laughs. Road Redemption builds on a relatively simple concept that has worked in the past, repackages it, and allows the unpredictability of other players a large selection of tracks, bikes, and riders in online death races to round out a uniquely enjoyable experience.

Road Redemption comes full of entertainment and is a great Road Rash successor thanks to a local multiplayer mode and an online mode that gives us hours and hours of fun, although its difficulty could be too hard for a lot of people.

Road Redemption isn’t what I hoped it would be, and that may not be entirely the game’s fault. Nostalgia can be a cruel mistress. However, the flaws on show here do prevent the game from standing up on its own, and although it can be fun and engaging sometimes, I would recommend waiting for a price drop before picking it up.

A deeply flawed attempt to revive Road Rash, that gets the fighting right but crashes out when it comes to the racing and graphics.

Such fun game, it's ideal to play with friends or alone and just laugh If you like bizarre games and speed this game is for u

Played in co‑op with my brother. It was fun for a while, but then it got annoyingly hard. Unfortunately, it also doesn’t have much content.

This game is not the worst, its a fun play and there is not many bugs in the game at least from what I have played. The story is pretty decent nothing too ridiculous or too boring. The gameplay being the actual driving on a road and killing enemies gets stale somewhat quickly since it is rinse and repeat but the random objectives like an elimination race or kill (x) amount of targets spices it up a bit. I would not go out of my way to recommend this game but if someone asked me if the game is worth its price I would say yes.

I was really hoping to enjoy this one more than I did as I was a big fan of Road Rash when I was growing up. Unfortunately this game was not the attempt that the legacy needed. It just felt like the game is trying too many things without really putting the right amount of attention on anything. For example, in order to add something along the lines of flying motorcycles, then they should have better refined the control of the actual race itself; in order to add something along the lines of gunplay, then they should have better refined the hitboxes. It takes some time to get used to the pretty poorly designed physics, but even once you master them enough to use them to your advantage, one of the other poorly designed mechanics get in the way. I'm fully aware that in order to execute melee combat like this in a racing game, your motorcycle has to essentially link up with the motorcycle next to you, but when there are multiple motorcycles around, it feels like you link up very randomly. Then the throttling of the speed just feels way too arcade-y, not saying that I expected a hyper realistic experience, but the quality of the racing and mechanics that you are getting with this game are similar to that of the generic motorcycle racing game in the arcades where it almost comes down to dumb luck. It still feels like there is dumb luck in this game, but they overcompensate it with other mechanics so its still possible to win regularly. The music is horrible and repetitive to the point where I had to turn it off. Then I was treated to the horrible and generic sound effects. The graphics are fine. The amount of maps, motorcycles, and characters is beyond disappointing. The one positive thing I can say is that I appreciated the rogue style gameplay loop, in which you can spend money that you earn in each run, but also gain overall experience to improve your stats. That is one redeeming point that allowed for me to enjoy the game a little longer than I probably should have. Overall, its just a really sloppy game. They tried way too many different things without trying to make any of them actually good and enjoyable. Road Rash deserves better than this.

This game is a mess, in both terms of fun and design. The first thing you will notice is that it is extremely glitchy. In just the first level, I suffered two crashes, and one time where my bike stopped turning, drove through obstacles and ended up mysteriously at the finish line, immediately winning. These issues should have been ironed out in early access, however they seem only MORE numerous. The spiritual successor angle they were going for reeks of marketing and not a reflection of actual gameplay, much like another recent title, Strafe. The rubber banded combat (enemies stick to you until you kill them, rather than attacking when it is strategically viable and racing ahead otherwise) feels boring, forced and lifeless, unlike the extra layer of gameplay that it provided in Road Rash. Beyond that, the feeling of progression found in the original Road Rash trilogy is completely absent here, with the game acting more like an arcade game than even the originals. Additionally, the multiplayer pales in comparison to its supposed predecessor, despite the fact that it is older than some of the fans of this game. In the end, Road Redemption feels less like a spiritual successor to Road Rash, and more like a cousin of Ride to Hell: Retribution. The only thing it shares with the former is motorcycles and combat, but it shares the glitches, poor design choices, bad voice acting and incredibly repetitive gameplay of the latter. This is not worth twenty United States dollars, not even ten dollars. The only time I think this could be acceptable is as a four dollar phone game.