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New Star GP
New Star GP is a fast and exciting arcade motorsport game with crisp retro visuals. Play career mode and work your way through decades of racing while upgrading your car and your support team... or chase high scores in championship mode on your own or in split-screen with up to three friends!
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New Star GP is a fast and exciting arcade motorsport game with stunning retro visuals.
Having competitors in the gaming market is always a good thing. Football games used to be a lot better back when FIFA and PES (or eFootball, or Winning Eleven) were fierce rivals. The years when Battlefield and Call of Duty used to wrestle for FPS dominance were also the ones spawning the best games in the franchise. Sadly, the same cannot be said about Formula 1 games. There’s the F1 series by Codemasters (now owned by EA)… and that’s it. There’s just one license to be held, so there...
New Star GP captures the intense racing action of an F1 season, from on track action and pit strategy to building your team, but does so without losing any of the fun of an arcade racer.
At it’s core, New Star GP is an arcade racer. If you revelled in the audacity of Hotshot Racing, then this doesn’t stray too far from that track. There aren’t any big boss bombs, but it does park up with an audacious swagger that invites players to simply jump in and go. The brash colors, silly moustaches, and easy action steering make this an entertaining option, especially when handheld. The magnitude of the Career Mode and the strategic decisions, such as pit stops are meaningful but...
Overall, New Star GP is a fun, bite-sized racing game that avoids some of the overly in-depth portions of the F1 series and skims the surface of team and car management to give you some control, all while keeping it simple and enjoyable. If you are someone like me who really likes the idea of multi-season sim racing but tires of the constant car development, juggling of team staff and 60-lap races, New Star GP is the game for you. It’s easy to pick up and put down, especially with the much shorter races it features, and it doesn’t require a wheel and racing seat to get the most out of it.…
New Star Games’ slightly arcade, slightly sim racer is a blast, despite a few minor hang-ups.
Reminiscent of vintage arcade-era SEGA, New Star GP is a racing game that also happens to be a fantastic homage to five decades of Formula One. If it's a fun, retro-style racing game you seek, then this'll do just fine.