Game #840: Onrush

 It's not about rushing forward, but rather, rush through everyone else.

 The soundtrack is glorious, although the female narrator is so cringe inducing, poor lass was handled one of the most tryhard and dumb scripts ever made.

 If you want to customize your character and vehicle with new skins, oh boy, Onrush pulls a fast one on all of us offline warriors, because you NEED to go online to access the in-game store. LAME. To be fair, you can unlock a few paintjobs(Which actually change the vehicles' 3-D model) and what not, but I'm not sure of what you need to do in order to unlock them.

 I love how this isn't a racing game proper, oh no, it's a team based battle game with driving. You'll either have to amass points by using turbo and wrecking fodder vehicles as well as enemy team vehicles, go through gates to add seconds to your team's timer, and whichever team's timer runs out first loses, or "Switch", where you get 3 'switches' and on each switch, which happens after you crash, you can pick between a different set of two vehicles, losing all your Switches isn't a game over, you are simply stuck with two vehicles per respawn, the team that runs out of switches loses though. There's a fun take on king of the hill too. Your Buggy or Dirt Bike will get wrecked frequently, but you can respawn unlimited items in a few seconds. It's fast paced, it's arcadey and I really liked it.

 The game is definitely meant to be played with other people, which is why it sucks so hard how there's no offline multiplayer. The single player mode is lengthy enough, but it feels quite limiting, heck, most stages only let you pick between specific vehicles. Some sort of offline 'quickplay' on any game type would've done wonders for the Single Player content. Plus, it being a Team VS Team game means you are at the mercy of your AI allies.

 Lemme tell you what really blows about single player: Some events are Tournaments, made up of multiple sub-events. If you lose a sub-event, tough luck, gotta start from the beginning. But you can pause mid-race and pick "Restart" to restart the sub-event if it ain't going your way. The fun part? You can't pause the game when you are respawning(4 seconds long) or when you are forced to watch the replay of your death BEFORE the four second timer, so if you lose while you're respawning.... Sucks to be you. Hopefully you didn't lose on the last event.

 Having played the game strictly in single player, I got a bit tired by the time I reached the fifth(out of six) set of events. I had already played every mode, driven on every stage(And the new snow climate wasn't enough to make them feel any fresher) and I wasn't unlocking new vehicle skins to keep me interested. I only finished the game out of a misguided sense of completion for completion's sake.

 If you plan to play online, it's probably a great choice, but I'd think twice about getting the game just to play it offline. I had my fun, yes, but this game needed a offline multiplayer option.

7.0