New Star GP's Retro Racing Speeds Onto Switch This March

Oh cool a racing game.. oh, that kind of graphics again.. never mind..

It's about damn time. This game is excellent.

@NinChocolate Nobody is going to build a brand-new realistic racing game for the Switch, as it just doesn't have the power. Developers will not waste time trying to make it work. However, this game is excellent.

@YANDMAN A racing game doesn't have to have bleeding-edge realistic graphics to be worthy of playing.

GRID does the job just fine on Switch. Why we haven't had an F1 game with PS3-era graphics I don't know - guess it's a licensing issue stopping ports of older games.

This game looks good and I hope to get it, but if it's eshop only then I'll wait for sale, obvs.

I'd not seen this one before, but a new arcade racer always has my interest.

Looks great! First time hearing of this and my interest is piqued.

I like the style. Not a fan of games trying to look realistic. It's like watching The Polar Express movie and all the characters end up looking creepy because they tried for a realistic look. Anyway, I like my games to look like games.

This somehow reminds me of a F1 game I used to play on the CD-i. It wasn't great, but I still have fond memories of it.
I thought Mario Kart was enough for my racing needs, but who knows, maybe an arcade version of a F1 racing game could be fun. Let's see.
In any case I would need a physical version anyways.

Looks like a Virtua Racing sequel.

Looks like a mix of GP2 on the pc and virtua racing. Sadly that will be a pass from me - I've got virtua racing and that's enough. These games don't typically have much depth, Forza generally has the right level of depth for me.

Looks quite good but without analogue triggers, racing games are usually a pass from me. Only racing games I've got is Mario Kart (obviously) and Circuit Superstars.

@YANDMAN I shot from the hip. I’ll take your word it’s a good play. I just find the textureless poly look too subdued for games about speed. It’s nice when details whip by to give a greater sense

it ma be a good game, but the virtua racing style graphics is good only on virtua racing...

I love how everyone's arguing between new super high graphics games and retro polygon based ones, while basically all of the best racing games were made from about 1997-2014, and almost all of them are just stuck on their original consoles.

That looks amazing, looks like it might ape VR's handling from the trailer. Day 1.

@NinjaNicky You may know this already but I thought I'd mention it. For about $12 you can get an adapter that allows you to use the gamecubes, analog trigger, controllers with the Switch. Some games, such as Trials Rising even support the analog input, although I obviously don't know if this game would or not.

@JayJ That’s exactly what I thought it looked like too.

Wow although the graphics is Virtua Racing-style, the gameplay seem to take after the Lotus and Top Gear series (in that it needs to refuel mid-race) instead of the standard Sega arcade racing style. I can tell from the gameplay that there won't be any checkpoints meaning it's an actual lap racing game rather than a time race. Can't wait for this.

@YANDMAN It's not that they don't want to, it's just that realistic sim looking racing games are boring. Forza, Gran Turismo, Dirt, Ridge Racer, Need For Speed, WRC, Project CARS, Gear.Club, SRS, Midnight Club, Asphalt, though they all look realistic in screenshots, all of them aren't that fun to play for the long run. Most don't even handle that well and some like Gran Turismo 7 and Forza 3 & 4 had bugs that ruin the experience. Most only play them for the eye candies and that's it. Games like Wreckfest, Burnout, Mario Kart, FAST, Horizon Chase Turbo, F-Zero, WipEout, Sega Rally, GTA, Diddy Kong Racing, Beetle Adventure Racing, Crash Team Racing, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Top Gear, Lotus, Virtua Racing, Twisted Metal, Crazy Taxi, Cruis'n, Outrun, etc., these are the most fun racing/driving titles as there's more to do in them than simply been boring.

Honestly, people need to get it into their heads gameplay prevails over graphics. Just look at the new Forza, looks incredible, but it's no way like the old forza's. Games really don't need to be these super ultra realistic visuals. Maybe try the game first before slating it?

So glad arcade racers are doing well again.

@Dan420 might have to look it up. I like Trials (I wish Ubisoft would make a new one) but it's really difficult on Switch compared to PC (with a controller of course). Also a good excuse to find my GameCube

Just played the demo for half an hour on XSS and enjoyed it. The game has its own identity and they made the most of the low poly style. However, I can imagine not having analog triggers being a problem for gameplay.

There's a few retro inspired racers on the Switch which are largely good. So I will check this out. Racing games in general are one of my fav genres and they go hand in glove for the ol' handheld console.

This trailer reminds me... I haven't played Hotshot Racing in forever. Wonder how the two stack up against each other.

I love the New Star games — the original New Star GP was a great top-down, online racer that I played on my Mac for years until it no longer worked. But have to agree that this will have to be something really special to stand out from the many other excellent low-poly racing games we have already.

@YANDMAN Feral managed to port Grid Autosport to the Switch years ago, and it's as realistic a driving game as you could hope for on a handheld. No reason other devs couldn't do the same if they wanted to, especially now everyone has a few years' more experience of the hardware.

Honestly the more retro racing games I see I think their cool but there is just too many. I'm more interested in https://www.vgchartz.com/article/458379/hot-lap-racing-announced-for-switch-and-pc/ with a career mode and a bit of car variety then just a Virtua Racing or Outrun focus and whatever artstyle.

Even Drift CE I wasn't sure what to think I was like oh cool a drifting game hopefully like Tokyo Extreme Racer Drift 1 & 2 but I don't know enough about it. I'd heard bad things but have to look into it more.

Hillclimb and touge barely see anything on them really but I haven't looked that hard either so that's on me but it's easier to get Grid 2008 for touge or TXR or just old games with hillclimbs in them or play rally games I guess as open world racers get focus and well circuit racers lack some modes or locations or 'original' tracks besides cities unless the series priorities it enough as they do real tracks a lot which I don't care for.

There is a reason I bought Gear Club Unlimited 2 and Wreckfest for Switch and will Grid Autosport maybe, my PS3 version is a bit awkward with the disk reading.

I'm hope to anything regardless of graphics it just comes down to the modes and content, the physics. I don't mind arcadey games but that's more in the Burnout, Outrun 2/SP/2006 or PGR sort of way where even the arcade modes have progression (or something to obtain) to them or fair aspects to them I guess.

I do find some retro ones to be very eh. The isometic ones I really can't play the controls and camera throw me off a lot and are basically unplayble to me.

@Serpenterror
What a bizarre comment. I love arcade racers and have done since the original OutRun, but GT7 in VR is sn experience like few others, both visually, and gameplay wise.

@riderkicker Having played HotShot and the New Star GP demo, I can say they differ quite significantly. Both have arcade race handling, but the main GP events are quite a bit longer than HS races. GP seems to be more strategic, with pit stops during the race and custom perks during a season. HS suffers from rubber band AI, which GP does not seem to have.

@Poodlestargenerica I liked N64 better than PS, but I always enjoyed Peak Performance on PS. And I liked the first Midnight Club on PS2. Then Sega had Sega Rally on Dreamcast and I also liked the 24 hours of Daytona (or whatever it was called) where you could actually race a 24 hour race. So I agree, a lot of the best racing games came out many years ago. But I see what people are saying, I do not need bleeding edge graphics, but would like something that looks better than what I can play on my phone, unless it is going for the pixelart style of Outrun.

The more arcade racers, the better. It's nice to see a 'dead' genre getting new life, and it just happens to be my absolute favourite genre in all of gaming.

New Star GP is a bit special. I've put a fair chunk of time into the Steam release, and it's great. The game came out firing on all cylinders, and it's only gotten better during early access.

The crew management and perks system, along with the pitstop system really gives it some strategic depth, all the while everything stays nice and arcade-y.

I wouldn't worry too much about analog acceleration and braking in this one... I've tried the digital controls on PC with a third-party Switch Pro controller to see what it would be like on the Switch, and it's absolutely fine

Also, this is nothing like Virtua Racing. People see flat-shaded F1 and think VR, and whilst I can see the correlation, the game is not 'trying' to be like that game, nor does it control that way.

If anything, this is very much like a more colourful take on the PS1 Formula One series by Bizarre Creations, which is awesome

@Serpenterror No, it really is that they don't want too, nor can the hardware support it. The time and money required to make it work, is something nobody cares about on the Switch. if they did, we'd already have those new games, we don't. It has absolutely nothing to do with sim games being boring. That's a ridiculous thing to say.