SkyDrift Review

Game Overview

Platform: PsN, XBLA
Developer: Digital Reality
Genre: Racing

We Liked:

Good looking environments, Fluid and easy to use controls, interesting and innovative powerup mechanics

We Disliked:

Short boring campaign, Broken multiplayer, No replay value

Our Final Take:

2 / 5 - Below Average

Reviewed by: Samuel LeDoux

Review

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SkyDrift is a power up racer reminiscent of titles such as Hydrothunder and blur but instead of tricked out boats or licensed cars Skdrift races single passenger planes. For a $15 release SkyDrift offers very little to seem being worth the price point. Despite the ability to unlock different planes and 8 player multiplayer SkyDrift doesn’t offer a lot to keep you playing it. However there’s still quite a bit that it offers in terms of raw gameplay.

The gameplay of SkyDrift is extremely fluid and fast paced, the developers did an excellent job on making this game feel arcade like and fun. For instance crashing isn’t that big of an issue for SkyDrift if you crash your plane almost reappears almost instantly making races twice as fast and interesting. As far as power ups go SkyDrift offers something that’s very unique, instead of a standard boost power up SkyDrift adds a fuel system, where players can either use their bombs, guns, and rockets or melt them down into fuel to add an added boost of speed. Thus making every power up semi useful.

The campaign of SkyDrift is extremely weak clocking in at around 3-4 hours, the campaign offers 7 stages with 2 gametypes known as power race and survival. The game is so short on content it actually recycles maps by reversing them. Furthermore the AI of other planes is absolutely dumb and there’s no rubber band so I’ve actually lapped AI. There’s absolutely no replay value to the campaign and no story, aside from unlocking planes there’s no reason to replay it.

The multiplayer of SkyDrift is broken, I’ve had tons of lag issues and broken lobbies. The few times I was actually allowed into the game and there was no lag we had 2 players and consisted of use blowing each other up and respawning over and over.

Overall Skydrift has extremely cool and fluid gameplay but doesn’t deliver actualy displaying it. Which leads to a boring short $15 game with almost no replay value.