Excerpt: "The voicework continues to be horrendous, with the announcer sounding like Serious Sam. Among the voices that can be picked for your driver, there’s an awful sounding Arnold impersonator and perhaps a literally phoned-in Jon St. John doing Duke Nukem. The game’s music is generic as hell and utterly forgettable. The game’s bots with the driver names come out of a children’s pun book written by Dane Cook. But this is all the same as it was before, nothing new was attempted here to improve over the original.
Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a very similar experience to Gas Guzzlers Combat Carnage was. It is improved in certain ways as it involves Steamworks. It is virtually bug-free and works as advertised. It’s just a shallow game with not a lot going for it that makes it stand out or memorable. There are times when the game can be fun and hectic, but that momentum simply doesn’t keep up, or happens right near the end of a race. As a redux of the original game that Gamepires made, it’s a promising game that only blows up at the line."
CCG writes - "At one point, the car combat genre was pretty popular whether you had the gun and weapon-based Vigilante 8 or the collision-based Burnout series. It’s seen better days as the genre is now lucky to see an entry in any given year. Gas Guzzlers Extreme (GGE), first released in 2013, and has seen sporadic rereleases in 2016, 2019, and now 2021 for the Switch and PlayStation 5 respectively."
COGconnected: Gas Guzzlers Extreme is a combat racing game that originally released back in 2013, but has now made its debut on the PS4. It's a drab and deflating experience that makes you grind a little too hard just to enjoy the better vehicles of the game.
Frank writes: "With a little more spit and polish, Gas Guzzlers Extreme could have been a great addition to the combat racer genre, but the lean selection of game modes, frustrating performance issues, and a lack of competitive multiplayer make it feel like an incomplete package."
