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Exo Rally Championship’s demo is out now, offering a 10-stage race across alien terrainColin McRae’s Interstellar
Colin McRae’s Interstellar
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Image credit:Exbleative
Announced last year,Exo Rally Championshipdoes what the name suggests: takes the rugged, weather-battered terrain ofExo One’s interplanetary journey and replaces the ponderous plot and gravitational rise-and-fall spaceship movement with a six-wheel, space buggy rally competition. Or put another way, if Exo One was Christopher Nolan’s Tiny Wings, then this is Colin McRae’s Interstellar.
Now there’s a demo, and it’s substantial with a tutorial, a 10 stage rally, and three “ever-changing Daily Stages with online Steam leaderboards.”
Exo Rally Championship - Demo Gameplay TrailerExo Rally Championship demo trailer.Watch on YouTube
Exo Rally Championship - Demo Gameplay Trailer
Land too hard and you’ll lose a wheel or other valuable part of your machine, however. That’s where air jets come in, which let you shunt your buggy around in mid-air to correct your orientation or soften your touchdown. The tutorials take you through using them in different scenarios, and it’s a lot to consider. Enough that it’s simultaneously intimidating but exciting to see what dedicated players can wring from these physics.
It’s a stark contrast to what I wrote about in myExo One review, a game which I felt lacked friction after you’d got to grips with its comparatively simple controls. Exo Rally Championship seems to have friction in spades, and promises a rich simulation with the ability to tune your rover, the need to repair it, and with tire and fuel types to match to different planetary destinations in the full game.
That full game is still “coming soon”, but you can grab the demo nowfrom Steam.
