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Drift (2016)

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Review

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Welcome to New Release Friday, where this week we are bringing you some Drift Horizon Online Gameplay and Review. I feel like this was a good bit of variation to add to the NRF series, as to date I haven’t worked with a car game yet. Drift Horizon Online may have not been the best option to do a gameplay and review on if I wanted a game that would do a lot of justice to the genre and turn into something more than just a one-off. Not to say that Drift Horizon isn’t perfectly up my alley as a concept or trying to do something that is much needed in the car-sim genre, it just really needs a full rebuild from the ground up… like an entirely different game. WE will talk a bit more about my reasoning for this opinion as we dig deeper into my Drift Horizon Online gameplay and review. I hope more games like this can make it onto New Release Friday in the future, maybe a bit more refined though.

First off, what the fuck is NRF? New Release Friday is a series in which (hopefully) every week I will hop over to the “New Releases” section of Steam and pick-up a game to play for a few hours and give a first-thought review on. This series is an attempt to not only keep content fresh and relevant around the channel by covering current games in a concise and genuine fashion, but also to offer exposure to new games via a relaxed review format to inform potential, unsure buyers. Check out the playlist for more!

The first thing we should take a look at with this Drift Horizon Online gameplay and review is the part that started off taking the longest and being the most sour experience with the game likely: the controls. Using a controller with any driving game is obviously the preferred method, but Drift Horizon really does not want you to do that. The devs released a guide explaining how to get a steering wheel and controller to work with the game, but it doesn’t work… I had to use Xpadder. Xpadder with Drift Horizion Online seemed to work quite well once I figured out how to set the in-game controls. Also, it is worth noting that the game has no in-game control management; you have to do everything through the launcher and completely restart the game to test the settings that make no sense on paper. This leads us to my next gripe in our Drift Horizon Online gameplay and review: starting a game. Though a small issue, you know how must games show a small tip on the screen during the loading screen? Yeah, this tip is set to show for a permanent duration of about 30 seconds regardless of how quickly your game loads. Now skip button either.

We can finally take a look at the Drift Horizon Online gameplay now, which starts at the menu. The interface is a complete joke, as there is no animation when you click on or mouse over items on the menu. There were things on the menu that I never even knew I could click because it is so unintuitive and because it lacked any sort of tutorial to tell me where I had to go to do stuff or what I had to do in the first place. Luckily, the menu is just a stripped down version of a cliché driving game’s menu, so I wasn’t too hard off on just dicking my way through getting Drift Horizon to work, but they would REALLY benefit from having a large menu overhaul. Within the menus lies one of the game’s high points, which is the expansive customization and tuning options on your car. This seems to be the developer’s specialty, is just car knowledge. You can change camber, offset, fuel ratio, gear ratio, and mod your car pretty nicely. Additionally, there is a lot of room for expansion with the mods so I am sure they could do some more cool stuff with that in the future. The car selection is also pretty good, especially for anyone who is into the type of culture that Drift Horizon Online is trying to appeal to.

We bought the classic drift machine to rev up our Drift Horizon Online gameplay and review: the Nissan S15. I didn’t do much of anything to it and it already drove like a super car on ice with no traction control. The gameplay is not what you would expect from a drifting game… unless you have no idea what really goes into drifting a car. The cars are permanently in the zero traction state regardless of whether you are accelerating or not. You can just be moving and turn slightly from left to right and whip full 90 degrees. I can’t tell if this was part of the devs vision to get the game to be overkill drift mode, but it honestly will just turn off anyone who actually understands what it takes to get sideways in a car. Once you mod a car to the teeth like we did with the 911, it gets even worse and just touching the accelerator causes a spin out. Also, you just clip through walls via a Drift Horizon Online glitch randomly… I found you can get infinite money this way though, so that was cool.

To sum up my Drift Horizon Online gameplay and review, I absolutely cannot recommend this game to anyone. If they do A LOT of work to it then it may be a bit more marketable and worth the $10 price tag.

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