HPP: We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark out and we’re wearing sunglasses! I have always been a big lover of arcade-style driving games, so it’s only natural that I would also adore the vehicular combat sub-genre.
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."
We need more arcade racing style games.