Victory Heat Rally looks like an electrifying retro arcade racer, and it’s releasing this winter | Gaming

There seems to be a wave of retro racers around recently, and each one seems to pick a particular target to shoot with its nostalgia gun, whether Wipeout or Lotus or Micro Machines or whatever else.

Maybe I’m forgetting some classic arcade racer, but Victory Heat Rally feels less laser targeted and more a modern take on the spirit of the genre. It’s a 2.5D, “neo super scaler” arcade racer with split screen, drifting, car tuning and a lot of pep.

As the trailer below notes, it now has a release window of this winter.

The Steam page uses cliché phrases like “crank up”, “banging beats” and “high octane energy”, but screw it, I think it’s justified. The trailer looks electric.

You can play alone or with…