Arcade Racing’s Biggest Failure - ONRUSH 

Hey all, I want to make quick clarifications on a few things: Yes, I have talked about ONRUSH's failure in previous videos. However, I wanted to make a separate video detailing its issues in more depth, especially for viewers who may not have seen my previous videos. Regarding the cosmetic microtransactions, you could still acquire cosmetics with the currency gained from challenges and playing events, which is separate from the premium currency. However, my point was more so focused on the idea that people would see the microtransactions in addition to the high price and be completely turned off of the game. The developers do mention in the Digital Foundry video that some aspects of their game engine did come from EGO. However, it's pretty much implied that the engine is different enough that it's not the EGO engine. Even Digital Foundry themselves called it the ‘ONRUSH engine’ when talking about DiRT 5. I figured some people may mention these points so I just wanted to make it clear about those aspects of the video!

I respect what Onrush did, it was truly a racing game like no other.

I miss OnRush! My wife and I played it almost daily. It was truly the most fun game I've played. It was a small online community, so you frequently played against the same people.

Onrush is an "extraordinary" (in every sense of that word) game. It distills "fun" better than most other games of its generation. An absolute blast. I was late to party buying it because it did not feature traditional racing. But when I tried it myself I felt very bad that I misjudged the game. Aside from the questionable microtransactions that can be mostly ignored...the implementation of its controlled chaos design philosophy is sublime and it is absolutely worth $60. No game does it better. The fact that you can buy this game for pennies on the dollar makes it so any arcade fan today has no excuse. BUY THIS GAME! It is so fun. A literal hidden gem.

This game was very underrated; it was great fun and the soundtrack was incredible I never had an issue knowing which vehicle is which, and this is one of the few games i’ve played where I actually liked a lot if the cosmetics edit: Just adding that the biggest flaw imo is the lack of splitscreen and limited offline content

Onrush will forever make me mad. From the way the "fans" reacted, to the questionable choices primarily made from the publisher. This game's failure highlights exactly what's wrong with the modern arcade racing space IMO. Fuck man I miss it, it was so much fun. It never got the chance to flourish like it DEFINITELY could have. Excellent video! TO THIS DAY no one is talking about this game so thanks for doing your part lol.

I myself will say I enjoyed ONRUSH, mainly due to the teamwork style game modes, and combat physics providing a fresh take on racing. I'll also say it definitely could have used a traditional race mode on top of team modes. (Note: I got this game free on PS Plus meaning I didn't pay a dime, I still don't agree with mircotransactions tho.) I think if this game had more advertising, and focused a little less on microtransactions, it would have done better. (I would absolutely buy this game for $60 and would recommend this game for sure. Just ignore the microtransactions by earning currency through in game challenges and you'll be set.)

This is literally my favorite vehicle game 😩 R.I.P.

I miss this game

So many arcade racers try their very hardest to replicate Burnout, and it hurts as a person who grew up with Takedown.

EVO had a lot of technical prowess and it is a shame a lot of it went to waste. DriveClub looking the way it does on the base PS4 along with OnRush being able to run at a rock solid 60 FPS on my VCR Xbox One is nothing short of impressive. I can only imagine what they could do nowadays if the whole team was still together.

I got the day one release of Onrush a few years back for Christmas and i played it nonstop R.I.P

I kinda liked Onrush's atmosphere, it was pretty cool, but although I played it to 100%, there was always that feeling of "something is missing", but it never bored me or anything, really liked the team events, specially the "king of the hill" equivelent!

Love your VIDS! Keep up the good work! I personally liked your Crash Time series most! I really wanted someone to make that game alive again. It has so much potential. Keep it up. Full support from my side!

Man Evo NEVER caught a break. Sony you done did them dirty. Imagine Motorstorm on ps5.

i love that you used the CLUB soundtrack for the video

Let's bring it back, all my Playstation peeps, Game Up!!

Got this game on PS Plus, it's a personal favorite of mine from the presentation and gameplay ideas alone. It's sad that the game died and is the only other delisted game, aside from FUSER, that I own.

They went for the "hero based team comp genre" because overwatch was the trend game back then. To this day, there's still not a single motorstorm sucessor. Closest thing is Gravel.

When this game came out i really really wish they blew up and become mainstream I don't care if it not racing im not gonna buy ps4 or 5 for it but im definately gonna day one it on PC

Great video I feel bad that i haven't had the chance to experience the game :'(

It could have been better if the Devs had listened to their fanbase and actually gave the game a racing game mode. As a diehard Motorstorm fan, they really lost me with that decision... Plus, freaking lootbox! Only got to play it because they made it free, like, one month later.

I think they made another game ahead of it's time tbh. I LOVED every aspect of this game. I played it so much that I didn't even care about the cosmetics, and never partook in the micro-transactions. It's like a neo-Twisted Metal/Motorstorm mayhem amalgamation. I am so sad that it's gone. I just tried to download it again and found it's delisted.... R.I.P. my sweet prince.

I had been wanting a motorstorm forever so i got so happy when this got released. Had so much fun but i would loved it to be a racer

This was incredible. The mix of sheer combat, speed, music and power fantasy was glorious. If we vet the tight guy at the head of EA, I am gonna champion Onrush's resurrection with a song from OG NIXIN highlighting the re-launch trailer.

Rip onrush, one of the best arcade games

I'm one of the few that that actually loved Blur, Split/Second & Unbounded.... But i forgot Onrush existed, I only side eyed it because I though it was bringing back the "RUSH" franchise, clearly I was wrong!

For a starter, that UI is absolutely disgusting

It's a shame it's game design was so bad because the track design was really good. Infact the tracks were amount the best of any racer, maybe not quite as good as the Sonic All Stars racing games..

as much as i love on rush i just wish they made onrush a racing game.

This is also a perfect example of why online only is stupid! Imagine paying $60 for a game but not being able to play it 🤦

I miss arcade racers like motorstorm so much. Just having 4-6 completely different vehicle classes go at it on a huge track, with 20+ vehicles jumping and smashing into one another to get to the finish line will never get old. The recent TrailOut fulfilled my Flatout itch (actually far exceeded it with the physics update), now I need a dev competent and passionate enough to tackle a motorstorm style of racing game. Also for any devs who may be making a game like this PLEASE STOP MAKING ARCADE RACERS that are only ONLINE FOCUSED and dropping the ball on the part that people who love the genre actually want (single player content). I;m sorry but I don't believe the esports scene and the niche arcade racer scene mix. OnRush failed, Demolition Allstars failed, Jected -Rivals failed, and all were pretty much experimental arcade racers that tried their hardest to grow a online community/esports scene. How many times will it take them to realize that the niche group of people who enjoyed those games were not into them because of their vast online suite, it was because of the gameplay, driving physics, damage physics, and overall single player content/campaign . Great vid btw! You got a new sub as I also grew up on many arcade racers and I love games that focus on weighty driving physics with detail car damage physics. I would be curious what you think about the Carmageddon series since in my opinion, even with its more slippery floaty driving physics, Carma: Max Damage still have some of the most impressive and detailed car damage physics in an arcade racer.

I really hope thay bring back on rush. I really loved this game. I just wish it has more destruction

I've never heard of this game before

The only game I have the platinum trophy 🏆 for! Earned in 2019😊

I really wanted to feel sympathy for the developer that created a bunch of racing games I love. But I just can't with this one. It wouldn't have mattered how much advertising you did for this game, hardly no one would buy this game, and the fact they had people in charge of that company who thought this game would be anything other than a complete disaster, is more than enough reason to close a developer that has such horrendous decision making. This game is basically a developer Darwin Award via "racing" game.

whoever's idea it was to making a racing game with the concept " it doesnt matter what place you're in " was a F****** R****d. they could have just copied the concept of motorstorm with new graphics and art style and it would have killed

i really wish split second and blur didn't fail because they are such good games

Hey GamerAlex when you critiqued Evolution Studios' choice of "engine development" I feel you're missing the point... in recent generations there are game studios that never developed their own proprietary software engine tools and then there are dev studios that actually have the hardcore programmers who are capable of developing their own customized software system tool or engine. Although the latter word is rather generic and a bit misleading. The idea being that Evolution Studios was far more likely to use the actual hardware they were developing for as base PS4 and then Xbox One as well as Pro and X however the problem is that developing a custom software tool will take a certain amount of time and funding... if they are experienced already (since they basically were experienced on base PS4 with Drive Club and Drive Club VR and whatever else they worked on at Sony) then they have the knowledge to avoid using the older Sony developed tools, build something newer and then target the Xbox One hardware and imo just make the port to PC later as I'm not a fan of simultaneously making one game on multiple platforms at the same time and release date, especially when PC is rife with piracy and people who don't really purchase retail game prices. That all sounds great in THEORY but being that they are actually hardcore and talented at actually coding the main problem with that is that they may get carried away trying to push too many "cool and awesome" features... I can tell from your video that this IS an Evolution Studios game and regardless of if they used a pre-existing portion of an engine (remember that Days Gone devs used Unreal Engine but no other dev studio has every matched nor come close nor surpassed what Sony Bend Studios achieved in terms of 3d complexity and gameplay mechanics system and A.I.... there is a real reason why "console exclusives at Sony and Nintendo" have the potential to push hardware harder... meanwhile overrated and over hyped engines like Unreal Engine will contain and display tons of problems and for some reason EA DICE's Frostbyte Engine has afaik become as good as its supposed to be... not sure what's going on or if EA just imposed micro transactions and the fanbase hates them. On Rush does seem and display a lot of features and aspects of MotorStorm but obviously using PS4 and Xbone hardware however MotorStorm on PS3 had off-line campaigns... the first one seemed a bit barebones and needed to get remastered or Remake for PS4 (or better yet for PS5 with full 4K HDR and 120Hz VRR modes) however like YOU mentioned instead of having circuit racing, for some horrible reason Evolution Studios chose to make OnRush as some type of coop or massively multi-player racing game thus forcing the person who purchased the game to connect to the internet and play online... The racing seems cool and hectic however I see a huge problem in the H.U.D. in that there are no tachometer telling the player the speed they are reaching which is a cheap trick by game devs when they remove the actual racing and turn the game into some bumper car type thing. Evolution Studios tried to force launch year PS4 owners to connect online to race cars and "talk to friends" that type of game design comes off the Xbox Live mentality and somewhat the PC mentality where they believe every game has to be forced online and that is just NOT the definition of "arcade racer", "arcade style racer" and videogame racer... I know this is a tough concept to grasp but that's what it is... either people will like it or hate it. My personal opinion is I rather play off-line, play the offline racing championship campaign AND LATER give the dumbed down online racing mode a try because the latter has to be balanced so people don't get stuck in last place or something... MotorStorm Apocalypse had a very unfortunate history of being ready for release around weeks to months apart from the Japanese tsunami and earthquake disaster... maybe the game could have avoided that fate had it been ready three months before that happened or had been delayed an entire year however the problem with videogames is that they cost money to develop and they also have to turn a profit... by now it's ancient history of what happened to videogames around the 2001 terror attacks where MGS2 and GTA 3 had to be "toned down" from whatever the content the videogames had designed originally. Also other Sony fans have theories of why Evolution Studios went fubar but it is just blatantly crystal clear that they attempted to do way too many "game types" while also forcing online play just to play the damn game... As such OnRush is NOT a "true arcade racer" it just isn't and regardless of the devs and publishers using that label we should not call it that just like "Ridge Racer Unbounded" is NOT a true Ridge Racer game and never was. It's an offensive videogame that Namco Bandai unfortunately fell victim to approving Bugbear be allowed to make it.

Onrush is a very good game.... and it is not a race to win ..... after the servers were shut down, we Onrush fans are struggling to enjoy video games 💔 .... I hope they bring it back or get us onrush 2

Very interesting!

Blur and ONRUSH ❤❤❤❤

this game reminds me of asphalt 8 and the gameplay too

Best racing game ever. RIP Legend!

im an true og MotorStormer, i loved the series of MotorStorm. i have onrush my self, and i hate it? maybe, maybe not its not a racing game at all imo. its just confusing for me, not an awfull game, but for sure one of the worst "racing games"

I LOVED Split/Second! Howcome it flopped?

i downloaded it yesterday , it took me 5 min to delete it man

oh wauw, you just saved me a bunch of money. Was planning to buy this for ps5 but since single player unlocks are bound to a server.. hard pass. edit: i lied, i bought it used for 9eu. Its to unique of a racer to let go for that money.

For what it was, I enjoyed it

got the game wane it was on ps plus and tell you i hade fun playing this game and i naver hade prablames koneing what car is what bc of the icons on top of the player names and in the selacte maneu and on the left it shows what ablatyes it got sad that ther well maby not have a sacande game but the maps were good the sounde trake was a masterpice and me gating my ferst plhatonome trophy on my ps4 it shows y i like that game

How many games has frostbite ruined?

I liked it

I have it. I want to like it, but I can't seem to grasp what to do. It's not racing and the objectives confuse me. I just don't know what to do because the game's direction lacks clarity.

It sucks how onrush a game that i played when i saw it in the microsoft store on my xbox one was wiped out from the shop i wish that the game makes a revive from its mess and that has more to showoff R.I.P onrush

Great video

The new idea was kinda neat, but they should've just paid attention and realized that a new idea was the exact opposite of what people wanted lol. If they just gave us a normal, arcade racing game and it would've been the car game highlight of the year

When I heard it wasn’t a racer I lost any interest I had!

6:36 Oh so Dirt 5 is from the new engine?

Are Only Me Don't Know This Game Exist ?

And I thought need for speed unbound at $70 was bad enough. What's with these publishers that don't know how to actually price their games?

I think most of this can be distilled with “people don’t know how to play games anymore”

I've been binging on racing game reviews and retrospectives lately and I've come to the conclusion that the best thing a company can do right now is just Pure, but with offroad races like motorstorm. I think a good offroad arcade racer might do well, since everything's street now, but do at least SOMETHING gimmicky that's actually interesting, and the coolest thing I've seen in a racer to date it bottom up builds from pure, pick a chassis, pick an engine, control arms, swing arm, wheels, tires, bars, body, etc, with constantly unlocking parts to be used for better, faster builds. I think its be pretty neat to be able to choose from a series of chassis in different classes, and then choose visually different suspension setups with different strengths and weaknesses, engines, gearboxes, bodies, etc. Idk, it would probably just be way better recieved than whatever the fuck this was

Umm I'm sorry I still play it online hmmm so