Redout 2 REVIEW - The TRUE WipEout & F-Zero successor? 

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I learned this after playing this game, but when the screen go red when you're going downhill, that's what's known as a redout; when the negative g-force forces all the blood from the lower part of the body to the head.

this game truly is the definition of intense, ive played 24 hours and still feel at the beginning. it truly is a tough game and i love it.

Great review! I've been a fan of WipEout and F-Zero for years and found some enjoyment in Redout 1, but was hesitant to buy Redout 2 with all the shouting over the difficulty, even post-patch. I went ahead and bought it anyway and have been totally addicted! Total newbies will struggle, but it can be done. But if you can handle the medium-hard difficulties in WipEout and F-Zero games, this game shouldn't be too much for you. Too soon to tell but this might be my favorite AG racer of all time (sorry, WipEout HD!)

it is Three Four Big Things, not Thirty-Four, cause they were 3 founders at the start of the studio. I really like this game, at the start they had some issues with progression but not it is fixed and looks very neat.

Nice of you to review this kind of racing games too, thanks

Fantastic review! I'll definitely be getting this! Absolutely adored the first one! 😊👍

I've been trying out this game and there are a few things I dislike. Mind you, I've played the first game and I think the on-track gameplay is great here. My complaints are all off the track, if there's a word for it. First, the fact that ESA is the only starting ship. Would've liked to be able to pick based on what I prefer, at least in terms of boost strength and duration since boosting is a strongly emphasized skill to master in the beginning of the career mode. The ESA can stay as the happy medium, but I'd like it if there are two more to choose from. One has a slightly stronger boost but slightly worse cooling (it overheats faster), the other has slightly weaker boost but slightly better cooling (it overheats slower). And then, put some kind of skill tree but instead of branching skills it's branching ship models that you can unlock. Second, no livery editor. I can live with using ESA's livery pattern at the beginning, but what if I'd like to change the paintjob from navy-orange to, say, white-red-black? Cosmetics, especially paintjobs, shouldn't be locked behind progression in 2022. Put an in-game currency system, and let us just buy them from the customization menu with the winnings collected throughout the career mode. Third, and I consider this minor, is they haven't realized the full potential of VERTEX's lore. It's a program, meaning creating custom tracks should be possible. Just add a track creator mode and allow us to share our creations. It's going to massively improve the game's lifespan. I mean, just look at games like Trackmania, Assetto Corsa, and Cities: Skylines. Those three have inherently great gameplay despite being rather old, but their respective communities have greatly increased the longevity through customized contents.

one thing i wish redout 2 added was split screen.

I had to buy the digital version of it on ps4pro is it out on a physical copy?

holy shit redout 2 is out?>??? I didn't even know redout 2 was coming ! after their redout spinoff i wrote off the series. Loved REdout lightspeed edition though

+50 points for the F-zero reference

Pro tip, use the UE4 unlocker and use the console to change the FOV, games feels much better without the ugly 60 degree FOV

anyone knows, if there's a VR version on the horizon?

This is my (nearly) entreé into the world of A.G racers. I have a GameCube with F-Zero GX, but never played it. I played wipEout 2048 on Vita several years ago, but didn’t get into it. That was probably… 2018? Now I have a PS5 and Redout 2 was recently released and I’m thinking this looks great, I love speedy arcade games like this (notably, Ridge Racer 7! 😂). Didn’t realise how SHIT I’d be at the *actual* gameplay, even with the “slowest” crafts - those walls and barriers are no joke 😂 And the controls are so close to a sim, it might as well *be* a sim 😂 Despite all this, I can’t resist going back in the hopes of improving and learning even just a *little* bit more of the track I’m playing so the next run-through is a *bit* better 😂 The path to mastery and refined skill is ✨ SLOW ✨ but that sense of progression *cannot* be sniffed at! 😏 👌🏼

Does it have ray tracing on console

Game is for sure a blast. Try BallisticNG for a more true Wipeout successor.

Хорошая игра! 👍 в Первую накатал более 100 часов! 😏🔥

Quantum redshit?! I played that shit! I gotally forgot about it 🤣

The thing is, from what I can make out, you are not actually 'racing' against any other ship, because there are no other ships on the tracks. It seems to be only racing against the clock.

My first AG racing game was Cyberspeedway on the Saturn. When the first Wipeout came out, I got obsessed with that game, along with the 2nd and the 3d. I played F-zero 64 but I never really liked it. Now, with these graphics and all this technology, I find these games absolutely boring, I don't know why.

redout franchise is the best antigrave games since wipeout and fzero gx. but for the moment I will stay in the first one I dont really see any improvement in this one. it just seems like a totally different game from first one. not better not inferior but different . first one have content for years of involvement. i didnt even scratched the surface yet

Average cruise in a zikz

No but fzero had enemies, it was all crowded and that was more fun than ricing all alone, even on the star wars podracing games there were more enemies, I am yet to see a gameplay with competitors

Looks pretty cool, but I'm sad I can't try it cause #imbroke, I only have 1IDR I'm my steam wallet lol

would say the only downside of the game is the soundtrack. "takeover" is the only real song but also perfect for the game.

Pacer is worthless, in my opinion. It's monstrously unsatisfying to play to me. You didn't mention BallisticNG, which achieves parity with WipEout's physics model and features fantastic tracks.

No VR

Redout 2 has some improvements like making the vehicles way less slidey, getting rid of the useless powerups and significantly streamlining the upgrades (no more incremental upgrades for four different versions of eight different vehicles). But the campaign for Redout 2 is one of the most bloated things I've ever seen, it's literally about 3X longer than the original and the game is insanely hard on anything other than the first two difficulties out of 6. It's honestly baffling to me that they make an absurdly long career mode PLUS a season pass when literally only 0.1% of players have gotten to the end of the main career mode on PS4/PS5. Also the multiplayer is still as redundant given there's next to no-one playing seeing as it's such a niche title.

Redout 1-2 play nothing like F-Zero. (GX anyway.)

Nah, Aero GPX is the TRUE F-Zero successor, considering it's literally much closer to F-Zero than anything else. Redout 2 though I think has potential to be a household name. It's got to be much harder than F-Zero GX.

Who is here because the game is free on epic games 🤓☝️

Sadly, this game, like the first, is basically dead now. There were a ton of issues plaguing the release one of which was a seriously high difficulty for challenges and even some of the tutorials. There was a section of the tutorial that you had to beat to actually unlock multiplayer which side note, is ridiculous. But it was so difficult that players were essentially locked out of multiplayer. The skill ceiling in Redout 2 was high. Very VERY high and it ended up dropping a lot of players, myself included, from the game. For gods sake, the devs themselves had to lower some of the points required to win in the Speed challenges. The game had a lot of promise and it could have been great, but sadly the really high skill ceiling and the over indulgence of over 250+ campaign levels was just too much. If I could get a refund, I would. The game just generally isn't fun and the devs also abandoned it too. Last I checked, the season challenges thing for multiplayer still wasn't made a feature. Doubt it is now with how dead the player base is

I would love a mode with weapons. Weapons and battles separated Wipeout, so not having that removes it as a true successor for me.

Too bad the running shoes art style makes it hard to look at. It's like they went out of their way to make it look horrendous. I will keep playing BallisticNG, Aero GPX or the original games.

This is not even close to F-Zero GX.

F-ZERO GX is still the best and yet to be surpassed. All these games try but fall short everytime.

it doesn't look like it feels fast though