Redout: Space Assault channels Rogue Squadron in its debut video

Redout: Enhanced Edition

Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.

There was once a time when space combat games were rare – now there’s so many out or upcoming that I feel Redout: Space Assault looks merely nice in its first preview footage today, rather than something to get trembilngly excited over. First teased back in June, it’s a spinoff from 34BigThings’s Redout, a hovercar racer that played like a blend of F-Zero and Wipeout. Today’s footage gives us our first peek at the game in action, and it reminds me a lot of Factor 5’s Rogue Squadron games on the Gamecube. Take a space-age peek for yourself at some dogfighting below

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