Redout: Enhanced Edition Speed that means it

Online multiplayer puts you on the grid with up to 12 pilots from around the world, and nobody there is going to let you win. It is the same track, the same ship class, the same start line: the only difference is who reads the corners better. Prefer your rivalry on the sofa? Split screen lets two of you race side by side locally, which is exactly where a game this fast gets loud. And when you want to talk shop between races, there is an official Discord server where the community and the people who built the game's world hang out. One honest note: the online grid can be thin at quieter hours, so it suits someone happy to wait for a good lobby or fall back on split screen and career.

These ships do not grip the road, because there is no road. The floating model is built on physics, so every slope, hard brake and twist of the track pushes a real force on your craft, and it feels like steering on ice until it suddenly feels like flying. The basics are steer, strafe and turbo out of a corner, and there is almost always a way through without touching the brakes, if you set the corner up early enough. Upgrades and powerups, from extra grip systems to slipstream enhancers, then reshape how the ship behaves. The catch: the game tells you very little of this. The first handful of career races are where you tame the thing, and once you do, nailing a corner flat out is the best feeling in the game.

Career mode is the spine of the game: over 100 events to race through, spread across 11 event types. Classic races sit next to things like Arena Race and Score-Based Endurance, so no two events ask for quite the same skills. There are six racing teams, each with its own driving character, and four speed classes that climb from quick to frankly unreasonable. Every track and event type keeps its own leaderboard, so there is always a friend's lap time sitting there, waiting to be beaten.

The whole game is built to make velocity felt, not just displayed. Buildings and terrain blur past, collisions hit hard, and the soundtrack is dynamic: the beats get heavier the faster you fly, so a good lap literally sounds faster. Visually it is a sharp low-polygon style with bold, saturated colour, running on Unreal Engine 4, and it is strikingly pretty: breezy coastlines, frozen wastes, desert plains, all of it a melancholy, half-abandoned Earth of 2560 where racing is one of the few industries left. There is even optional VR support with a cockpit view, if you want to know exactly where the apex is. Fair warning from the people who love it: at the top speeds, sometimes it is hard to see what you are doing. That is the point.