Re-Volt

About Re-Volt

Re-Volt (1999) is Acclaim Studios London's racer of radio-controlled cars, tearing through museums, steamships, building sites and supermarkets armed with random weapons.

Re-Volt in Depth

Players race radio-controlled cars around environments such as museums, steamships, construction sites and supermarkets, collecting random weapons during races to knock rivals aside. Cars and tracks are unlocked by succeeding in its tournament modes. Single Race pits the player against computer opponents, or up to four players against each other, and winning races in a cup unlocks a new car. Championship runs a four-race cup for points, in which finishing third or better is needed to advance; three failures end the championship, and winning a cup unlocks new levels and cars.

Time Trial challenges players to beat a target lap time, unlocking reversed, mirrored and reverse-mirrored tracks. Practice allows free exploration with no rivals or limit, with a star hidden on each track; collecting all the stars from a cup's tracks unlocks two more cars. Stunt Arena hides 20 stars around a loop, ramps and a half-pipe, some reachable only with faster cars, and collecting them all unlocks a new mode. Battle Tag is a multiplayer game of holding a hidden star until a timer runs down, and Clockwork Carnage swaps the usual eight RC cars for a race of 30 wind-up cars.

Making Re-Volt

Acclaim Studios London developed it and Acclaim Entertainment published it in 1999. Reception varied by version, according to GameRankings and Metacritic: favourable on PC and Dreamcast, mixed on Nintendo 64 and unfavourable on PlayStation. Computer Gaming World's Mark Clarkson praised the PC version's graphics and environments.