Turbo Golf Racing raced across the fairway to Xbox Game Preview this week, providing a turbo experience for up to eight players on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC and Xbox Game Pass. These are our first impressions.
This week marked the release of Turbo Golf Racing from Hugecalf Studios and Secret Mode, and while it currently offers a pretty barebones experience as an Xbox Game Preview title, there must be a bit of magic in the code as it was hard to convert. down. I had a chance to play the game’s solo mode slightly before launch, and while it provided me with quite a bit of entertainment, it was the multiplayer chaos of the game that got me hooked – as well as my six-year-old son. If you have an Xbox Game Pass subscription and have enjoyed things like Rocket League, this might be worth it.
Turbo Golf Racing game preview launch trailer
Immediately upon launching the game, you’re presented with visuals and a soundtrack that would fit comfortably as a side mode in Psyonix’s Rocket League. It’s colorful, the music, while not exactly my cup of tea as you may know by now, is energetic and fun, and the simplified menu makes it easy to navigate without cluttering the screen. It is the simplicity of Turbo Golf Racing that has allowed me to spend quite a bit of time on the fairway with my son this weekend, which extends well beyond the main game menu.
Currently you only have two modes to play: Solo and Multiplayer. Solo acts as a time trial and challenge mode, where you have to play against the clock to put your ball in the vortex-like hole in the fastest possible time for a rating of one to three stars. The fairways twist and turn their way from your starting point to the end hole across different themed maps, offering the usual golf-related hazards of sandbars and woods to slow your throw, as well as an out-of-bounds area on each side of the fairway you enter. an abyss of nothingness – before you hit the fairway again, of course… it’s not a one-fairway. Along the way, you’ll have the option to use boost strips reminiscent of Mario Kart, floating circular launch pads, and other fun ways to make your ride a damn sight more fun than actual golf. Plus, your car has special abilities, turbo and wings that make it glide, so there’s that too.
However, to really experience Turbo Golf Racing you have to venture into the multiplayer as that is exactly where the game comes into its own. Matches consist of three rounds for up to eight players, and each round rewards you with points depending on how fast you can get your ball into the hole before everyone else. The match winner is, yes you guessed it, the player with the most points at the end of the three rounds. While traversing the multiplayer fairway performs about the same as the single player portion of the game, multiplayer also adds the fun of firing missiles at other players to slow them down, as well as defensive shields to block such callous behavior.
The standout feature of the multiplayer mode is that, apart from the missiles you can shoot at other players, the entire match is contactless. You can’t ram them, hit their balls, or do other hostile acts, and I absolutely love the idea. It gives you the chance to do exactly what you feel you need to do, without the added worries of potential mourners, and when you’re playing with your little ones, which they’re sure to want to participate in once they have a crush on the game, it’s easy for them to enjoy with you. Even the controls have been simplified, with only the boost, jump, special ability, and missile buttons requiring extra attention to perform. It’s just really easy to jump in and I found it quite hard to put it down after playing my first few matches.
Completing matches rewards you with Turbo Golf Racing’s in-game currency, Gears, which you can spend in the shop on various cosmetic upgrades for your vehicle, such as body styles, spoilers, turbo colors and the like. Winning matches also give you trophies that you can spend on higher quality cosmetic items as an added bonus on top of your Gears. As with all live service games now, there is a season pass, but currently it is all free and no paid number has been mentioned at the time of writing. Each day offers you a selection of quests to complete to get through the pass, and as an added challenge you can complete a number of objectives to unlock upgrades called Power Cores for your vehicle, which act as permanent bonuses that can increase your ball size , make it more bouncy, or give you skills like extra jumps, a magnet to pull the ball towards you, and other crazy ways to improve your experience.
Fun, easy to pick up and hard to put down are my current feelings about Turbo Golf Racing. How long I’ll feel this way is now up to Hugecalf Studios, who have said the game will be in preview status for about 12 months, and we can look forward to a host of content updates along the way. The lack of performance is my only letdown at the moment, although it’s quite rare to see a preview title offer a list anyway, and the multiplayer style only offers a hugely fun experience now, but can change over time. stagnate. Anyway, I highly recommend stepping in and trying this new little game, even with the lack of performance support – sacrilegious to say, I know!
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