Aquiris Game Studio's Horizon Chase Turbo is finally arriving on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 28th November. The developers are dubbing this the ultimate edition of the game, as it includes a timed exclusive mode called 'Playground' that will randomly generate bonus goals as you race. You can be assured that you will get quite a lot of bang for your twenty units of local currency (or more accurately €19,99) since this arcade racer comes juiced from the starting grid with 32 different vehicles and 110 unique circuits. The teaser trailer follows:
If you are having feelings of déjà vu and fondly remembering the Super Nintendo Top Gear trilogy or the Lotus Esprit trilogy on Commodore Amiga, know that this Aquiris-developed game is a spiritual sequel to those franchises. Going one step further, the arpeggio and earworm heavy soundtrack has been produced by none other than the legendary Scottish video game music composer Barry Leitch - who was the original Top Gear composer.
We assume you are wondering about a few certain features, so let us reassure you the game will run at a smooth 60 frames per second and include classic split-screen multiplayer.
Were you a fan of the original Top Gear games on the Super Famicom? Is Barry Leitch one of your favourite chiptune artists of the last century? Will you whistle the game's soundtrack when you're not playing? Race to the comments section below with your answers.
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No thanks, that looks too claustrophobic for my liking.
Much more appealing to me than Gear Club 2, but I always prefer the arcade racing over simulation. Plus 60fps is everything in a racing game.
Also the soundtrack!
As close to Outrun on Switch as you’re gonna get until Sega Ages gets the real Outrun out to us!! I have this on PS4 and is a lot of fun!! Recommended!!!
I’ll have to look into this.
Top gear and top gear overdrive on n64 were ace. All part of this series
Boom!
Made right decision on not buying PS4 version.
Hmmmm.
I love driving games, Outrun, Lotus Challenge etc... but I got bored of the whole just go left/right thing - actually I moved away from gaming altogether.
It was a yellow TVR Cerberus drifting at night, the freedom of movement, in a TV advert for Gran Turismo on the PlayStation (1) that got me back into gaming. This was a dream come true - real car physics.
So not for me, but I'm glad these sorts of games are still being made and that the audience is still there.
Game runs smooth enough, might check it out.
Just get Moto Racer 4 on Switch. This is an underrated arcade racer. It's a bit like a Burnout game with motorcycles. I can really recommend it
Hallelujah!!!! So happy there is a date been saving my eShop funds for the release date
it looks cheap and bland, if it came out back when the Game Cube was in, i would expect and maybe even be intrigued, but this is no port, this is a new game for Switch, I expect a little more
I imagine it's sales will be based on how low they'd be willing to price it
Looks interesting. Might give it a shot.
Day one, heard a lot of good things about this.
@Nintendo4Sonic Going by Moto Racer 4's reviews it seems not many agree, 49% on Metacritic. It's coming to Switch on the 20th November.
I have this on PS4 and anyone who loves Lotus from the Amiga days should love this as much as I do. It's deceivingly difficult but smooth as butter. I will be double dipping when this comes out for sure:)
Definitely picking it up!!!
After Super Mario Kart, Top Gear was my fav SNES racer. So yeah, I'm pleased about this.
They have my eclipse! It looks like fun but I don't think I'll play it much. A big appeal to me personally is car customization. I'm not sure how I'd do with an arcade racer. If it's cheap then I'll just buy it anyways.
This is a really great racer, hope they do a physical release at some point.
Does it have licensed cars?
I usually love picking up racers but this one just doesn't have an appealing style to me. They went for the whole mode 7 look but I have never been a fan of that style and some of the classics did it a lot better.
I actually went to my local comic book shop last week and bought a used Top Gear Overdrive and loved it. This game looks to strike a unique balance between old and new. I’m interested.
I have finished it 100% in iOS and it's a great game! I will buy it probably for Switch too. The soundtrack is awesome!
Aside from Mario Kart, I haven't really played other racing games very much. The last racing game I owned that wasn't Mario Kart was Test Drive 5 on Playstation. The original Playstation.
@Varubajia Not so much!
I’ve had Horizon Chase on my iPhone for years and it’s fantastic.
Yay, finally!
Great game, great music.
I have this for my PS4. It is a great arcade racer with a wonderful soundtrack
When is vrally 4 out? I want proper racing not arcade style!
This is a fantastic game and has actual tracks from Tope gear on the SNES. If you love a good arcade racer then do not hesitate to snap this up.
@Blofse Two months ago on everything else.
@Pablo17 PS4 Physical BRazil.
Well its looking really Nice, takes me back too the snes era, an other one for the wish list
I can’t stress JUST how good this game is. I’m a big retro gamer and this is one of very few modern ‘retro inspired’ games that’s actually more enjoyable than the originals that inspired it.
It’s the only driving game since the 90’s that I’ve played through twice and will happily buy again on Switch.
So good.
This is a fun little arcade racer with excellent music. It's a great fit for mobile devices and I can't wait to learn more about how well it holds up on the Switch as a $20 title.
I have to double dip anyway as my son has completely monopolized my PS4 with Fortnite and now Black Ops 4 so I can never get on the damn console no more! Lol
If you compare it to Outrun, I think it comes across more like Konami's Wec Le Mans. But if you compare it to Top Gear, man, it's spot on! And that was a really good home racer. Looking forward to this. Especially since Outrun is on the way so it's win win.
@Fidget I absolutely love the Lotus games on the Amiga, still play them from time to time on my A500 so this sounds like a day one purchase for me!
I hope it's more like Ridge Racer.
@jhewitt3476 It's an expanded, improved version of a mobile racer that happened to be very good. This new and improved Turbo version for consoles received very good reviews on PS4 and PC and the developers have said the Switch version will be even better. It's not really trying to be a 'modern' racer, it's a retro racer in the vein of Top Gear and Outrun. It controls well, runs very smooth and from what I've read is a lot of fun to play.
I never played the original Top Gear but I had this beauty on the Megadrive.
@OorWullie
I'm all for ports and this type, but if you are going to reboot a game, why not spend a few extra $$$ to add some aesthetically pleasing aspects to
I never said the game wasn't worthwhile, just that it looked plain and cheap
I tried the free mobile version but it left a really bad taste in my mouth, with ads and paywalls and energy systems all over the place. Looks really cool though, it probably deserves to be tried again with a normal purchase model and proper non-touch controls. The memory still makes me cringe though, while conversely thinking 20.00 is far too much.
Perhaps sometimes free versions shouldn't be offered at all if they're just going to get your brand associated with a frustrating, kneecapped product.
Edit: it's possible there were no ads? I may be lumping a bunch of different mobile racing games together in my memory...
Like a top gear fan, obviously, I will buy it. I am exactly part of public-target aimed by this game.
oh my this looks cool. loved top gear.
depending on reviews i'll grab this one.
outrun would be great as well.
@Varubajia Ha! They should have called it "Rad Racer 3"! ; )
@nkarafo
The music files are the same for all versions. The music in the video is one of the new music tracks that werent on the mobile version, that might be what you are picking up on..
@TheFongz if you tried the version available in the West, nothing of that will happen. It is free to try with only one payment that unlocks the whole game. No ads in the free part of the game nor the paid one. Turbo version is improved in every aspect and has new modes and content. Simply check out reviews on Steam, 97% positive.
I really liked this game on mobile, although I wish it focused on just racing and not having to collect the blue things. The price is a little steep too, not much reason to "upgrade" for those of us who got on mobile or Apple TV.
@BARRYLEITCH
Hello Barry !!! It's an honor to have you here in posts!
Yes you are right, it's the same. I had downloaded the ps4 version (demo) which I assume it will be the same version for the Switch and I have connected it to a 5.1 surround system and that's why I noticed the difference in audio, in comparison to iPhone / iPad which is more hardware limited of the little speakers. I have also edited my first post. Thank you!
@Stocksy The Top Gear game that this game here is inspired by, isn't in any way related to the N64 games. Those were made by Kemco, the 16-bit Top Gear games were made by Gremlin, a British software company mostly famous in the Commodore Amiga/Atari ST days, and their games also got ported to the SNES and Megadrive/Genesis.
@OorWullie Well, I won't overreact and say that those sounds made my ears bleed, but I still to this day prefer the Commodore Amiga version: better graphics, and absolutely superior sound effects and music. No console at the time could achieve that.
The Amiga 1200 version of Top Gear 2 was also far superior to console versions. I always found the console sounds rather tinny, especially the Megadrive versions, making the music sound less rounded/full, if you get what I'm trying to say.
@ThanosReXXX strange that they all use the same front and logo style....... and have the same guy doing the music.
You’d think someone might have grumbled at two identically named games and logo....
@Stocksy I did a bit of extra research, and I owe you an apology, because I stand corrected: Gremlin Interactive actually cooperated with Kemco on the Amiga/SNES/Megadrive Top Gear titles, so it would appear that Kemco ultimately took the series over completely from Gremlin Interactive, seeing as Gremlin largely went out of business, got swept up by Infogrames (which sadly also went out of business not too long after) and part of the management team went elsewhere and founded Sumo Digital.
Who, coincidentally, developed the more modern versions of OutRun, which came out on PC, Xbox and PS2, which ties in nicely with the article topic again...
I'm so excited for this, esp since Redout and 90's Arcade Racer seem to never be coming out anytime soon...
@stylon yeah you will love it and the music is awesome too. I will always regret selling my Amiga 500 and 600 and 1200 and cd32 geez why do I sell stuff, haha.
@BoFiS I was really looking forward to Redout as well. Are you planning on checking out Grip? I think that game looks cool and kind of in the same league.
@ThanosReXXX Apologies for the late reply. I've actually played the Amiga version. Back in high school, the group of friends I went about with were all from the posh side of town and all had Amiga's and Atari ST's. Coming from the working class side of town I had the Megadrive. A lot of my mates used to look down on consoles and I recall one particularly snobby one saying consoles will die out,they are not the future. Nothing I showed them impressed them,until I got the Mega CD that was. Road Avenger, as limited as it was in the gameplay department blew my snobby mate away.
@OorWullie No apology needed, man. I figured you'd get to it, whenever you'd get to it. I've learned a long time ago, that communicating on a gaming website/forum, is much like playing Word Feud: some replies/moves take several days...
As for your reaction: don't get me wrong, I'm not looking down on consoles in general, heck, otherwise I wouldn't own so many of them...
But back in those days, the home computer most definitely beat the consoles of the time. And in the case of the Amiga, that was the A500 in the days of the SNES and standard Megadrive, and in the case of the expanded Megadrive, either with SegaCD or 32X, it was the A1200 that still completely blew it out of the water.
Doesn't mean that the games on the consoles were bad, though, but especially in the case of multi-platform games, consoles simply couldn't do what home computers could do, due to more powerful graphics- and sound cards, and more and expandable memory, so the home computer versions of those games were always superior.
I love the mobile version and was waiting for this port since the Switch was announced
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