Take to the sky-high tracks with speed and precision in Rocket Racing, which challenges your reflexes and daring across 24 levels in Grand Prix, Challenge and Quick Race events. Drive like a true prodigy by mastering advanced drifting and wall-boosting techniques to get an edge over your opponents and achieve record times. Rocket Racing is intense action from the green light to the finish line!
Rocket Racing puts players in the sub-stratosphere on tracks suspended above the clouds and futuristic cities. Challenge mode features six tiers of unique racing and skill-based challenges, often featuring the signature “grinding” technique which is critical to achieving elite racing success! By adjusting the orientation of the racer against the walls, players can use rocket power to boost off at high speed as well as scoring points for longer and smoother grinds.
Grand Prix pits players against opponents in a series of races over four difficulty levels. Completionists can collect gold trophies as they race, and along with the Challenge mode, take steps to unlocking and winning every event in the game for the elusive 100% Award!
Finally, Party Mode puts up to four players in the hotseat as they take turns setting and breaking each other’s score on a huge variety of tracks. Party Mode even lets players customize how to win - be it with the fastest time, highest total or single grind score!
Rocket Racing will be released for PS3 and PSP minis on the PlayStation Store at US$4.99 in late February.
No one has anything against a good zombie game really, it’s just that there’s a lot of them. So we needed to try something different. We didn’t want to kill zombies in the usual way. We didn’t want to survive a deadly undead army in the ruins of some scary-ass town. We wanted to travel through time and shoot zombie dinosaurs and mummies and junk. So, we created Age of Zombies!
To conduct field research, the development team actually journeyed back in time to experience what it meant to really blast zombie faces with guns while standing around the Pyramids and Japanese villages and such.
Mr. Morowitz, the game’s lead programmer, found the entire experience fascinating:“I particularly enjoyed the artwork of the Ancient Egyptians and their ability to persevere under extreme environmental circumstances.”
Creative consultant Anthony Hansen on his adventure: “I learned how to make moonshine in the 1930s.”
And lead artist Murry Lancashire: “I liked shooting cavemen.”
Truly an enlightening experience for the entire team! Upon returning to 2010, Halfbrick set about creating Age of Zombies, where the hero Barry Steakfries employs the use of time portals to stop the evil zombie scheme of Professor Brains. Using a huge pile of weapons and explosives, Steakfries is the real deal for blood-splattering needs.
And yay, the game was. Age of Zombies, releasing on PSP and PS3 minis for $4.99 on February 25th. We hope, in the future, you do try it!
A megaton dropped today with the announcement that Mr. Destructoid, popular gaming mascot of destructoid.com will be appearing in our upcoming XBLA game Raskulls as playable character!
Mr. Destructoid will be unlockable during the single player Mega Quest story, along with many more members of the Raskulls cast. We’re looking forward to seeing it in action during online multiplayer! Simply hit the video above to check out the announcement trailer featuring heaps of new gameplay footage with action coming out the wazoo!
To celebrate the New Year and the critical acclaim we’ve received for Blast Off, we’ve decided to release the soundtrack for free as a super awesome gift to you all. Enjoy your holidays to the ambient and introspective tunes of everyone’s favourite PSP Mini space puzzler!
Our PSP minis have been released on the PlayStation Store and the reviews have been filtering in. We're very pleased to share them as both games have received considerable critical acclaim, with Blast Off considered by many to be the best mini currently available. A great result for Halfbrick and we have two more minis coming very soon!
"Blast Off is a shining example of what all Minis and gaming-Apps should strive for." 9.0 - Gamer Limit
"Blast Off is a super approachable, crazily addictive little game." 8.5 - Destructoid
Echoes
"All PSP owners should try Echoes. The game is simply brilliant." 9.5 - Kombo
"Even after you see the arcade levels, there are trophies to case and some really neat challenge modes to get into. For a $3 Mini, Echoes fits the bill quite well." 7.9 - IGN
"Echoes is an addictive game that really delivers a great bite-sized experience." 8.0 - ZTGD
