R8 Games has announced that its WipEout-inspired anti-gravity racer, PACER, will fully release on September 17th. PACER is an explosive anti-gravity combat racing game where players can race in a variety of single player modes or with up to 10 players via online multiplayer.
Steve Iles, Senior Producer of PACER, said:
“PACER is the fastest and most explosive game of its kind and we’re super proud as it prepares for the start line. Whether you’re into single player campaign play or inviting all your friends for multiplayer mayhem, it’s all here. Or if you’re daring and like a challenge, try our thrilling Battle Royale inspired mode, ‘Storm’.”
Here are the game’s key features:
- Highly customizable craft. Choose from five craft types, then head to the garage to fully customize your look, performance tuning and weaponry
- Race the world. 14 unique and challenging tracks with interchangeable variants (Night, Mirrored, Reverse) giving up to 8 different ways to race any given circuit
- Choose your mode. 8 game modes including Elimination, Endurance and PACER’s unique ‘Flowmentum’ and Battle Royale inspired ‘Storm’ modes.
- Campaign mode. Develop from a trainee Pilot and advance through 10 unique race teams to become the PACER world champion.
- OST. Featuring original tracks created by Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE
- Optimised for Online. Support for up to 10 player multiplayer, Online Ranked Mode to see how you compete against the best in the world and Online Tournament/Spectator Mode for easy streaming and fun events at all levels
In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released a new trailer that you can find below.
Enjoy!
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Fun game and looks slick, played the demo a while ago, feels more like F-zero than Wipeout to me. If you want authentic Wipeout on PC it’s gotta be BallisticNG, moddable too.
BallisticNG is great, needs more coverage.
Most be boring af.
Mobile kind of shiet.
Article sounded good, trailer looked good – but I only caught a glimpse of one weapon that shot electricity. If it has multiple types of weapons like BLUR I’d be more interested. Games like BLUR are really hard to find.
This is a re-branding of the kickstarted game Formula Fusion, put into early access on Steam 2015 and fully released 2017.
The Steam page (now under Pacer) has an identical product page with reviews stretching back to then, meaning that this is not a new game but instead a console port of an already existing game.
That’s probably something that should have gone in to the article.
“PACER is the fastest and most explosive game of its kind”
It’s seemingly video game law that the PR hype for every new Powerdrome/F-Zero/Wipeout clone must claim it to be the fastest evaaaah!
Pretty weak hype considering F-Zero GX had speeds upwards of 1000 km/h with 30 racers per race. None of these sh**ty Wipeout clones seem to be able to come anywhere close to that.
The better games in the sub-genre each have their own pros and cons. I certainly agree that F-Zero GX still looks (and plays) great today via Dolphin using higher settings and the AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack.
Why these games are so fast… I can’t finish any track in any hover race game.
I doubt that it will be faster than Redout, so we’ll have just to wait and see.