Okay, here's my overall review.
The good:
The game's tutorial plays a bit like Rocket League meets Twisted Metal. Graphically, the game's visuals are nice, stunning, hand drawn. I'm getting 60 fps, and the game runs smooth as melted butter off a newborn's butt. Music is good, but gets a bit buggy at times. At one time, I had 2 music tracks from the game playing at once, it was weird. Overall, the game has some promise, and I can see myself spending some time to play the game, get in-game currency, and unlocking stuff for my car.
One can host a game, maybe we can get together to all try it out in a co-op game. I could even stream it and link it here.
Neutral:
I plan to try this again a bit later, because I encountered some type of bug that would not let me join a match. Seems that the only option to play a game is to co-op between 4 human players and 4 bots. That's fine, however, I cannot start/enter a match after I choose my character/car. Could be a windows 10 bug, could be a game bug.
Bad:
This is definitely a controller game. It feels like a Why won't is recognize certain buttons on my Xbox One controller? It shows them in the tutorial (press RT to accelerate) and XYAB buttons to fire weapons, but, only half the controller works. Had to play with KB/Mouse. Probably a beta issue, who knows. I even remapped the buttons within the settings (It's under Options then Commands, which is weird) and it still wouldn't work.
Like I said, I plan to retry this later on. I'll write more/edit this post afterwards, hopefully after being able to get into an in-game match.
EDIT:
Okay, played this again last night. The matchmaking feature is a bit buggy, supposedly matching me up with 3 other players, however, I was in a round with all bots. Probably a bug. But, weirdly enough, my controller fully worked. Maybe it has to write some type of config after exiting? Anyhow, the gameplay was great. There were some times during the match that I was driven to complete a bomb goal. There are some features that I do not like, and perhaps they are hidden away or plan to be implemented in the full release, such as the ability to equip your car with purchasable weapons.
I'd also like to see a feature where one can change the camera angle. For an overhead 3/4 shot, it's kinda weird, and doesn't really give you a lot of time to react to OTR obstacles.
I would be interested in picking up this title, if the price is right. Sadly, even with the features exhibited in the playable beta, I don't feel that this is really a $20 title. I'll ad it to my wishlist, and perhaps get my brother to join up, as he loves games like this.
