With the 90's gaming scene offering a plethora of top-down racers - such as Micro Machines, Rock n' Roll Racing, Super Cars and Super Off Road - it's a shame then that the genre has experienced declining popularity since the advent of 3D consoles. But with digital distribution allowing niche ideas and concepts to survive, indie developer VooFoo Studios has been looking to reignite interest with their forthcoming Mantis Burn Racing.
Melding old-school gameplay with cutting edge visuals, Mantis Burn Racing is certainly shaping up to be a love letter to previous top-down racing efforts. And with the developer promising "fast-paced, bumper-to-bumper racing with intuitive, tactile gameplay", all signs point towards VooFoo as living up to their promise by offering a game that takes the "top-down racer into the next generation". As part of this, the studio is releasing the game on PC, Xbox One and PS4 - with the PS4 Pro version offering native 4K resolution, 60fps and 1080p for players in four player split screen races.
As someone who is a fan of top-down racing games, I thought Mantis Burn Racing was great when I played it at Gamescom this year. At the same time however, and with Interplay recently putting their games up for sale, I cou...