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It feels lazy to pick lines from other reviews but yes, calling this game ''The best arcade-inspired racing game since Outrun 2006'' and having it somewhere near the top of a retro revival favourites list really does this game justice. Horizon Chase Turbo is an excellent racing game that should not be missed if you're a fan of arcade racing games or the genre in general. HCT boasts very high-speed limits in a variety of over 100 tracks! Suffice to say, the game has a huge load of content. The career mode is the first attraction with individual races against 19 enemies at once, making races chaotic but more adrenaline-pumping at the same time. 20 racers on one tracks does sometimes make passing enemies slightly difficult (especially on small roads), but it has never truly stopped me from getting high places on the leaderboard. You'll eventually get used to dodging cars at high speed, and at that point you're getting much closer to your trophy. Just getting first place is not your only objective however. A fuel meter, as well as tokens are scattered throughout the stages which you'll need to pick up to not run out of fuel, and get the best trophy possible for more unlockable cars or settings. There is a good amount of unlockable cars, each with five different stats to make them unique to others. Some are even neat references to classic 80s movies or something else, and I definitely recommend finding out about them yourself instead of using the internet. Aside from career there are two other modes. We'll start off with Tournaments which speaks for itself; do 4 races and be the very best the AI wish they were. These are fine on their own, though on the higher difficulty I began to notice a very scripted AI. For example, the placings will always be the same as the second place will never get a third place, only first place if you let him. The first place will also make your life an absolute hell and not let you pass. It's also always the same amount of cars that pass you after you've passed them in the first lap. It's not too big of an issue, but I felt it was noticeable in this mode specifically. I'm also slightly disappointed that you can't create your own tournaments for local multiplayer. I don't have friends to play with regardless but hey, custom tournaments would be fun. Which conveniently brings me to the next mode, Endurance. This mode has you race a select amount of random maps without getting lower than fifth place. This is a fun mode, but the ''random'' part of the mode is not as random as it sounds. You will always start with the same cities/countries that you go through in the career in the same chronological order. Which means that in the 109 endurance mode, you will always go through all San Francisco maps before moving on to Chile. Especially in that latter mode it's just very tiresome and not as random as it is advertised. Most of my complaints are nitpicks, but I do feel they could genuinely improve the game and with HCT still being updated, who knows? Horizon Chase Turbo is a great throwback to arcade racing games in the past, and overall one of the better retro-inspired revival games.
9/10
