Atari has today announced that its arcade-inspired racing game NeoSprint will be speeding off the early access start line and heading to Switch later this year.
This single-screen racer borrows a lot from Atari's Sprint arcade series with its top-down perspective (here a little more isometric, but you get the picture) and a focus on multiplayer. But Atari and developer Headless Chicken Games have added a handful of modern touches too, to keep things up to date.
For NeoRacer, these new features include a single-player Career Mode, various racing challenges across a series of game modes and customisable tracks and cars. You can find out more details about these features and get a look at some screenshots below.
Track Builder: Create and share your dream tracks and circuits with the NeoSprint player community. Build tracks with jumps and turns up to three levels high across three different biomes. Share your best designs and get ready to compete for the fastest time.
Multiplayer Mayhem: Get ready for some fun, arcade-style mayhem as you race against up to eight other players. Friendships will be tested and rivalries will be born.
It’s a Career: Advance your career in the single player Campaign Mode as you compete across multiple Racing Cups with increasingly difficult tracks. As you progress, unlock new decorations and car liveries.
Racing Your Way: Hone your driving skills with Obstacle Course and Time Trial challenges, then step up to competition in Campaign and Grand Prix modes. There is plenty of racing content for every type of player.
Custom Cars: Nine car types, from muscle to sports cars, all with unique speed, acceleration, and handling. Each car is customizable with colors and Atari-themed decals. Create your dream car and get racing!
We still don't have a specific release date for this one just yet, though a preliminary window has been set of summer/autumn 2024, so we probably still have a little while to go.
What do you make of NeoSprint so far? Speed down to the comments and let us know.
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Hmmm. It looks alright. This is definitely catching my interest. I must admit I loved Sprint in the arcades when I was younger.
Also I LOVE Super Woden GP, an isometric car game. That is absolutely amazing.
I was more excited when I thought the game looked like the image at the top. 😁
This looks cool. Rc pro am was always a fav of mine back in day, but I can’t get into racers like this anymore when I can play need for speed 2 on my 70” with a steering wheel and foot pedals
That just so happens to be what we spent last weekend playing.
Looks like it could be fun, but from a quick peak at a video it looks like the track width is fixed at that, fairly narrow, width you see in the screenshots. It looks a little frustratingly narrow to me, and without any variety in width I could see myself getting irritated and bored by the narrowness pdq.
Looks fun, but feel like their are a lot of these retro inspired racers(not necessarily top down).
Looking forward to SuperNeoSprint!
Just watched a preview video, hope they are going to fix the start as with 8 cars the first corner is really messy. A longer stretched start grid with 2 cars next to each other would provide more chance not to have a pile of cars.
@canaryfarmer Initially on Steam but it'll be on Switch in due course - solo dev building it - a game called Super Polygon GP. Very much that vibe.
The dev history of this is fascinating. It actually exists as a way to test Web3.0 stuff on the VCS. Like how that one Mario vs Donkey Kong game was made entirely in HTML. I'm surprised this game could be ported at all, considering it is perhaps the only game that could ever be said to have used exclusive features of the VCS
All the YES! I loooove Super Sprint
I've been playing the beta on the Atari VCS and it's ok. If you like games like off road then you'll like this title as well.
There were some awesome iso racers back in the 80's. I'm interested. It will depend on how well the physics and controls work.
It reminds me of Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat for the NES.
@ibookboyuk
I like Wooden, but the handling is INCREDIBLY heavy.
My first thought was I haven't got New Star GP yet, but I'm excited to see this in an isometric view racer, and it has a track designer.
I have one on Wii (minus the track designer) that's a fun pick up and play multiplayer.
Wouldn't pay more than 5 dollars for this honestly.
@ibookboyuk you ever play The Next Penelope? Great futuristic isometric racer.
I wanted to love SW GP but the performance was pretty rough last I played it on Switch.
I love isometric racers so yeah gimme.
Looks like a great game to play on the couch with some friends. Another top down racer that has recently popped up is Topdown Turbos, it's a game like MicroMachines
Ya know, when I heard "arcade racer" I was expecting something closer to Daytona at the tamest
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