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Putting it bluntly getting the hang of racing in this game is brutal. Your constant enemy, more than even the other people on the track, is momentum. Keeping in mind basic physics in space without forces like gravity, friction, or a nice solid wall help you once you’re moving quickly in a given direction stopping or turning becomes interesting. The ideal result is that you develop a technique akin to a power slide to make turns but doing this is extremely hard to get any good at and unfortunately the game provides minimal guidance or instruction to help you through this process. Aside from a bare bones tutorial to establish the basics you’re on your own. There's an on-screen indicator of where your momentum is taking you, and that's a big part of the key to success, but some guidance in making the most of what it can offer would have helped rather than being left to experiment while mostly falling on your face. To make matters worse you’re essentially given an immediate choice to suck it up and grind through understanding the game’s mechanics or quit. When you begin there’s only one course and to unlock anything else you’ll need to win and doing so while you’re trying to come to terms with the controls strains the patience. With minimal ramp up and no real carrot dangled to entice you, aside from new locales to struggle to stay on course in, the value proposition for your time is very unclear here. If you’re itching for something very different that will make you dig in and embrace new challenges I suppose Void Space Racing may be an option for you, but if your goal with games is to get something in return for your time and investment relatively quickly I can’t recommend it at all.
Justin Nation, Score:Bad [5.0]