How Inertial Drift revitalised the arcade racing genre

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If there's any dev worthy of taking on the mighty Ridge Racer it's surely the awesome lot behind Inertial Drift

Inertial Drift's an arcade racer that's both familiar and refreshingly different; styled after the eternally slick Ridge Racer Type 4, developer Level 91's debut distinguishes itself with a novel handling model built around a twin-stick system. It's innovative and kind of ingenious, putting a welcome emphasis on the art of wrestling with a car that wants to live life sideways.

Twilight Rivals introduces new cars, new rivals and some new tracks - and it also features a new Eurobeat backing too.the reward - which is why it's vital that it have depth and nuance, something which Inertial Drift's delivers on generously. Its unique twin-stick control method is behind much of that; here, the left stick steers while the right controls drift angle, with success being about finding a balance between those inputs and the throttle and brake.

The ultimate proof of the success of Inertial Drift's control scheme is that in all the time since O'Kane conceived it in 2013 he's still to tire of it."It blows my mind that I can go and play that first track and get distracted by just doing laps. And I've been doing laps of that track every week for the last eight years. There's still something there, and it's kind of meditative.

The term arcade racer used to mean something different in the genre's 90s heyday."Originally, arcade didn't mean easy," says O'Kane."Arcade games all had steering wheels back then and required a lot of precision. Then it became synonymous with more pickup and play, and I wanted to return to that older style of drifting, that older style of arcade, so I put a lot of depth into the game that people could really drill down into it.

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