We are used to the fact that the video games that sound the loudest are those that belong to the most popular franchises and that have already made a good place for themselves in the industry. Luckily, they come to light from time to time. proposals that end up being very interesting and which are worth giving a chance, because they present very promising titles with original and addictive gameplay.
Those were the feelings it gave me. DeathSprint 66 when I had the opportunity to try a preview a few months ago, so it left me with a tremendous desire to enjoy its final version, since I believed that the enthusiasm it would generate in me would be clearly greater. Unfortunately, although he has some excellent ideas, he has not been able to make the most of them, so the game stays a little on half throttle.
A frantic race to the death
All the action of this work developed by Sumo Digital takes us to a futuristic world set in the year 2066. At this time there is a television network that has decided to produce a most ruthless and violent television program which, with all certainty, would be censored on any channel in the real world because of how extremely bloodthirsty it can be.
This is because death lurks behind every cornerwith dismemberments and liters of blood spreading everywhere on the stage. That’s what keeps happening constantly in this program that is characterized by leaving us with a race in which the participants are not real people. In reality, they are clones that have been manufactured with the sole purpose of guaranteeing a good show and that have more than assumed that their life will be rather ephemeral.
All this in races in which there are no cars, karts, motorcycles or anything similar. The clones themselves are those that could be defined as vehicles and that have to run at full speed through some circuits that take us to a cyberpunk world. However, it is not enough to be as fast as Sonic, because the reflexes that the players at the controls must demonstrate are essential to win, since the most normal thing is to die once, twice or even more times each time a race starts. new career.
On these tracks the places to move are somewhat narrow and throughout them there are laser beams that move non-stop from one side to another or in circles, holes that pulverize you into a thousand pieces just by touching them, saws capable of cutting you in two and another series of traps that seem to have been taken from the mind of a perverse being. For all this, apart from running at enormous speed, you must not lose sight of anything around you.
Dying is not a serious problem either, because the clones are infinite, so you can try as many times as you want. The only thing you do is waste a little time and until you reach change the appearance to that of Crash Dummy If you get killed too many times in the same circuit, but losing time can be decisive when it comes to winning if the opponents prove to be more skilled.
Even so, although it is too common to see how characters are destroyed in the most bloodthirsty ways one can imagine, the truth is that the gameplay is simply outstanding and its most fundamental pillar. As soon as the starting gun sounds, the runners do not stop moving through these scenarios in which you can jump, slide, climb on rails and grab others and even run up walls. Anything to get ahead.
The controls are very intuitive and as soon as you pass the brief tutorial it is easy to learn how to play, although they are somewhat more demanding to master perfectly, although the races are so fun and dizzying that always leave you wanting to dive into one more. In addition, the graphic quality is also wonderful, as well as the animations, to the point that they know how to fully convey to you the beastly speed that you can catch at some moments, either with the accelerators that are spread over multiple areas or with the accelerators themselves. turbos that can be activated from time to time.
But if there is something else that we must not lose sight of, it is the objects that turn this game into something more like Mario Kart with a violent touch, because you can collect a kind of blue tokens that unleash totally lethal attacks, whether by shooting giant saws, a drone that goes in search of the runner in front or a charge that destroys everything, although it is also possible to obtain a shield that protects you from any devastating impact. Whatever the case, between traps and weapons, chaos will always be the order of the day.
A game that shows you all its cards too soon
Although the gameplay is what makes it most worth playing DeathSprint 66what weighs too much on him is the diversity of ways to spend time. The game modes it has are rather scarce and so little varied that by just spending half an hour or even an hour at the controls you have already seen everything, so the surprises end too soon and therefore we must recognize that the experience can become somewhat repetitive.
Let’s say that those who prefer playing offline only has one mode which allows you to choose between nine chapters. Each of them is divided into several circuits with their own rules that consist of reaching the finish line first, collecting a certain amount of energy before time runs out, or finishing the circuit without dying a certain number of times. And you can be guaranteed that the difficulty is somewhat high, so this could be said to be the game’s way of keeping you hooked on the title for a long time.
However, in the end the objectives are not very different from each other, because in the end you will always try to do your best to reach the goal as soon as possible, regardless of the requirement that the track asks for, but what is undeniable is that artificial intelligence will always fight tooth and nail to prevent us from getting our way. Not only because he can also use objects, but because he can tackle you and also runs like hell with his own characters.
Regarding the other game mode, it is the online mode which would be another great attraction if it were not for two very serious problems. The first of them is that games take too long to startso the loading times end up being somewhat exhausting in the long term and take away your desire to search for the game due to the second drawback, which is the fact that it is practically impossible to get together with other players and already a total odyssey that in the eight people get toge ther.
No matter how hard I tried the times I played, only two more players have joined the race, while the rest of the gaps have been filled by artificial intelligence. In short, to find myself in a situation like this I would prefer to focus only on the offline mode and that’s it if it weren’t for the fact that in online races you can level up by meeting certain objectives.
Thanks to this you end up receiving a series of rewards in the form of emoticons, different colors for the suit and other backgrounds for the name plates, nothing more. Yes indeed, The gifts are not something to write home about either.but it’s a shame that this is the only way to get them, because if at least the prizes were more impressive it would encourage you to want to play more races in this mode, but at the price of having to wait so long for it. .
iGamesNews’s opinion
There is no doubt that DeathSprint 66 piece of a clear lack of ambition or that its creators seem to have not trusted this product more because they have not invested more heavily in it. With the gameplay being so good, which is one of the best I’ve seen in a racing game in a long time, it weighs too much on the fact that there is so little variety of game modes.
If it had had a greater variety or if its online mode had been more attractive, perhaps a different rooster would crow. In the end you find a title that is sure to The time you spend at the controls will make you feel great emotion and it will undoubtedly entertain you, but it will not be something that will end up lasting in your memory as the months or years go by unless its content ends up expanding more in the future. We will cross our fingers that this is the case, because the truth is that he deserves it.
DeathSprint 66 Price
The launch of DeathSprint 66 has occurred only in digital format for PC through Steam, where you have it available for 24,99 dollars. Nothing has been indicated about its console versions, so until further notice you will only be able to play it on your computer.
DeathSprint 66 Duration
With the issue of duration, it depends a lot on the time you want to dedicate to one of its two game modes. Since there is no campaign or anything similar and it depends so much on each person’s ability to progress, it is a little difficult to say an approximate amount, although it is true that In less than an hour you will have seen everything it offers.
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