The rival bikers are appalling drivers - so appalling, that one questions why the revolution of choice in Ashen ever involved motorcycles at all - and they will, every ten seconds or so, crash into something and die. The ones where you have to kill rival gang members has you checking your mini-map to see where the villains are, hunting them down, swinging for them with your baseball bat, and hoping that it'll actually work.

There's a bunch of different mission types beyond simple races and time trials and they all come with a catalogue of issues. You can use your handbrake - bizarrely mapped to X - to try and take corners at a higher speed, but it's so finicky to use and so wildly unpredictable in its effects that it rarely results in anything other than a poorly animated crash and the grim realisation that the only penalty for death in this game is immediate resurrection and the instruction to carry on playing. Trying to turn corners at anything other than the pace of a particularly lackadaisical gastropod is a fool's errand since you can't drift, and your bike has the turning circle of the Queen Mary - the massive boat, not the wife of King George V. You accelerate with R2 and you brake with L2. This is Road Rage: a dreadful vehicle combat game that is probably only marginally more fun than the biker-ruled future apocalypse it's set in.ĭriving in this game is unequivocally awful. Sick of being taken advantage of by power hungry, money grubbing fat cats, the disenfranchised people of the city of Ashen rise up against their oppressors the only way they know how: by forming motorcycle gangs and hitting each other with big sticks.

Road rash queen