Who remembers Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road? This was a fun arcade game for three players where you raced burly off-road trucks around dirt tracks from a top-down viewpoint. The game was ported to a variety of platforms, not least the NES and the SNES; sadly we are yet to see a release on the Virtual Console.
Spanish eShop publisher EnjoyUp games clearly hasn't forgotten this legendary retro racer and is working on a tribute for the Wii U eShop called Rock 'N Racing Off Road, which we briefly covered in December.
For your delectation today, EnjoyUp have shared 4 new screenshots with us which you can check out below. We can also reveal that the game will feature several modes of play, such as arcade mode, time trial and local multiplayer with the option of up to 5 Players at a time. A wide variety of tracks and realistic physics for driving, jumps and crashes are also promised, along with off-TV mode using the Wii U GamePad; naturally there'll also be loads of rock and roll music!
The game is still scheduled for a Q2 release this year. Let us know what you think of the screenshots below. Is this game be on your must-buy list?
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Giving my Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road vibes, more than R'n'R Racing. Interested to give it a go.
Yes I'm definitely interested,I love these kind of games.I was a huge fan of Off Road racer back in the day.They have definitely got the look right,fingers crossed they get the controls right too.On another note,I'd love to see an over head racer in the style of F1 Circus on the Megadrive come to the Eshop.Make it slightly less challenging to control with more intense opponents and you have got a winner
Here's hope that this is Wii U (eShops)'s Super Sprint / Super Off-Road, just like Konami's very recommendable Driift Mania is on Wii(Ware).
As I enjoy almost all kinds of racing games from Excite Truck to Stunt Race FX, from Art Style light trax to MotoHeroz, from F-Zero X to Wave Race Blue Storm to 1080º Avalanche to Micro Machines to RUSH RUSH RALLY RACING to Mario Kart 8 and many more - but not from Forza to Gran Tourismo - I hope this meets my expectations in being a decent and fun racing title that is as playable as the old 8-16bit classics and has the content and replayability of a modern one like Driift Mania.
I really hope EnjoyUp makes this a competent package like they did with UnEpic and Spy Chameleon, and not a 2,49 minigame like 99Moves, Darts Up, or Abyss that don't live up to their full potential.
The graphics look a bit like mid-90's CGI; anybody remember ReBoot?
@ToneDeath Do you mean Re-Volt?
Even for what it is, the graphics don't really look good. Look at the trucks on the first screenshot for instance... HD aside, a Wii game had not really looked worse. However, it may show a bit more love than some other eShop releases.
In fact, WiiWare offers some great games of this genre: Konami's almost unknown "Driift Mania" and the amazing "Rush Rush Rally Racing". Unfortunately both a price rather high (well, RRRR was a sort or retail-game originally).
@MussakkuLaden No, ReBoot wasn't a game (though for all I know there may have been one based on it) but a computer-generated animation for kids, back when that sort of thing was cutting-edge.
Those kinds of shows (Beast Wars and the Donkey Kong Country cartoon come to mind too) had a characteristic smooth and shiny look, with stiff, robotic movement for the characters.
I'm all for updating the classics. Looks fun and will purchase if reasonably priced. But they've got to change that name. There is only one Rock N Roll Racing and this ain't it.
I'm in!! Can't wait! But what is "RUSH RUSH RALLY RACING"? I'm pretty baffled that me owning 6,000 games is not familiar with that title....unless was UK only? Anyone? Thx
Looks fun, they had me at 5 player support. Will get this!
@joey302 Rush Rush Rally Racing is a topdown WiiWare racing games only released in Europe: http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/667039-rush-rush-rally-racing/images
I'd never heard of it either.
The gams has potential, but looking closer at the screenshots also shows they've got some work to do too. Let's hope there's more variety in the enviroments for the final product.
I remember Super Off Road! Didn't the arcade cabinet have a steering wheel on each of the 4 sides?
Looks interesting. Been playing alot of the micro cars racer game (for the life of me i can not remember the name) on the Wii U eshop. It's a great game once you get a faster car, the beggining car is so so so slow and boring.
@datamonkey yes! Super Off Road had 3 wheels, as did Super Sprint, and Badlands had 2 wheels!
@Danrenfroe2016 TNT Racers? Great little game,I got it a couple of weeks ago.
@OorWullie remembered, it's Super Toy Cars! Great and underrated game!
I have very fond memories of this game and I know I would buy it in a heartbeat if I had any friends who appreciate this kind of racing game. Maybe if it's cheaper than a fiver I may pick it up for a little weekend racing.
Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who was mildly disappointed to find out that this game is a lot more like Super Off Road than Rock n' Roll Racing. Don't get me wrong, I loved both of those games, but while there are/were a billion games similar to Super Off Road, I can't think of any games that I ever played that are similar to Rock n' Roll Racing.
@Danrenfroe2016 @OorWullie After reading your comments, I had to do some digging to find my all-time favorite arcade racing game (non-3D games, I suppose, since I have many fond memories of games like F-ZERO AX and Scud Race), Hot Rod by Sega. And I'm glad I finally figured out what that game is called, because I've had the music stuck in my head for over 15 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyt3o4CqUvU
I got this yesterday and like it, but I really want to see where Super Off Road goes: http://in8b.it/ - similar inspiration.
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