"Something dawned on me while I was playing Gas Guzzlers Extreme – where are all the arcade racers on PC? It seems to be a genre that doesn't get much recognition on the constantly growing platform. There’s the yearly release of Need for Speed and maybe the occasional indie racer, but the PC isn't exactly flowing in a good supply of arcade racers. Gas Guzzlers Extreme is hoping to spark up the genre with its vehicular combat action – a genre that is even rarer - that inherits mechanics from such games as Twisted Metal and Interstate '76 into its DNA, along with a bit of Mario Kart loving for some old-fashioned, metal crunching fun without destructive blue shells."
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."
