- March 6, 2024
- QUByte Interactive
Top Racer Collection
The Top Racer Collection is a fun racing collection if you enjoy racing games from the ‘90s. The game is vibrant and crisp, and with a banging soundtrack, you will love it!
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Top Racer Collection is a single player and multiplayer casual racing game. It was developed by QUByte Interactive and was released on March 6, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.
"Top Racer Collection" is a Steam game that compiles the complete Top Racer series, including Top Racer, Top Racer 2, Top Racer 3000, and Top Racer Crossroads. With over 140 tracks and exclusive new cars, players can experience arcade-style racing and manage time, nitro, and fuel. The game supports up to 4 players in split-screen mode and online play for challenging racers worldwide.
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- The collection faithfully re-releases the classic Top Racer (Top Gear) games, providing nostalgia for fans of the original SNES titles.
- The vibrant graphics and fantastic soundtrack enhance the overall experience, making it enjoyable for both nostalgic players and newcomers.
- The inclusion of online play and quality-of-life improvements, such as adjustable screen size and save states, adds modern convenience to the classic gameplay.
- The performance issues, including low frame rates and graphical glitches, detract from the gameplay experience, especially at high speeds.
- The new installment, Top Gear Crossroads, is criticized as a disappointing ROM hack with minimal changes, failing to meet expectations for new content.
- The collection lacks significant enhancements or remastering, making it a hard sell compared to better alternatives in the racing genre.
- music20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The music aspect of the game has received mixed reviews, with many users criticizing the replacement of the original menu music with generic tracks and noting audio issues such as skipping notes. However, the in-game soundtrack is praised for its quality and ability to enhance the gameplay experience, making it enjoyable during races. Overall, while the UI music is seen as a significant drawback, the original soundtrack remains a highlight for players.
“At least there's a sound test with the actual original soundtrack.”
“Great gameplay, soundtrack, and with online mode a must play with your friends!”
“The game is vibrant and crisp, and with a banging soundtrack, you will love it!”
“Decent enough port but I experienced some audio issues (music tracks sometimes would skip notes).”
“Replacing the original menu music with this generic guitar music is also criminal.”
“The music in the UI is terrible; they should have just used the main game themes.”
Top Racer Collection Review
Top Racer Collection is a solid compilation for fans of the Top Gear trilogy on SNES, but the originals' lower frame rate can really affect the action at high speeds. Nostalgics will find that everything is as it should be, and there's still plenty of fun to be had, but those without emotional ties to the series will want to go for the newer, better model instead and buy Horizon Chase Turbo.
70%Top Racer Collection Review
The Top Racer Collection is a fun racing collection if you enjoy racing games from the ‘90s. The game is vibrant and crisp, and with a banging soundtrack, you will love it!
80%Top Racer Collection Review – Just as you remember it?
Top Racer Collection does what it says on the box, it contains the three SNES games from the series, pretty much unchanged. The collection provides the bare-bones quality-of-life options that are usually expected including changing screen size and playing with filters. Some new gameplay options such as online play are present as well. Unfortunately, given the number of better alternatives in this genre, both past and modern, this collection is a bit of a hard sell. However, I acknowledge that the series does have a huge following in some parts of the world, and for those that simply want to play Top Racer again, in their original form and on modern consoles, then this collection will sort them out.
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Top Racer Collection is a casual racing game.
Top Racer Collection is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5 and others.
Top Racer Collection was released on March 6, 2024.
Top Racer Collection was developed by QUByte Interactive.
Top Racer Collection has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked this game for its music but disliked it for its graphics.
Top Racer Collection is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
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