Wednesday, September 15
Neon Rider is a flash game by Louissi. It is a 2D side scrolling racing game with a technological/electronic or a sort of Tron theme that is free on various websites. If you want to play Neon Rider Click Here
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| Light Cycle from Tron Legacy. |
The game revolves around starting in a car that almost resembles a light cycle from tron at the left and then trying to the reach the right. Unlike most games that try this the difficutly doesn't come from difficult terrain to cross, but with color. There are a total of four colors and three of the colors; red, yellow, and green only allow the same color to drive on top of them. So not only do you need to stay on your toes about changing color to drive on areas, but also sometimes changing colors to fly through them. Then there is still some terrain difficulty, but it is usually from messing up do backflips. Even though I said difficulty there really isn't any. You can go through all 20 levels with ease, but just because it is extremely that doesn't mean you shouldn't play it. Because even with its ease, Neon Rider is a fun game to play.
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| Flying is fun! |
One of the best things about Neon Rider is the visuals. While the visuals a pretty simple they look pretty nice and fit the theme just perfectly. Each screen looks technological, especially at the beginning of every race.At the beggining the screen as a lot of pop ups such as numbers and sayings. It makes it seem like you are in a computer much like Tron. Now the visuals during game play is really simple. Essentially each race is just colored lines on top of a blue blackground. It doesn't look very advanced, but it does make it look somewhat similar to Tron (which also looks extremely inadvanced compared to today's visuals).
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| Colors play a large part into Neon Rider. |
The sound of Neon Rider is good and bad. The good comes from the great techno music that plays during the race. Unfortunately the music stops when to return to the menu after each race, which will make you hit the replay button just to hear more of the music. The problem with the music though is that it is only one song and it can become repetitive. Along with that there is the problem with some of the FX. The FX on the menus is just fine, but what isn't fine is some of the in-game FX. In some of the levels there are some white floating capsules in the levels and when picked up by your car they let out some atrocious sound. Quality wise it sounds quite bad and the sound level is just outrageously louder than anything else so you get a blast of louse low quality sound every so often. Luckly you can turn off the FX and keep the music on, which alows the player to hear the good and remove the bad.
Even though the game is insanely easy it is still one of my most favorite flash games just because of the visuals and sound. One of the problems with the game though is even though it is a flash game it is a bit of a resource hog. My laptop can play almost every other flash game at high to medium quality and it will be perfectly smooth. With Neon Rider my laptop still runs a tad slowly when it is a low quality. Even though it does run slowly on my laptop I still play it because it is just great fun.
Play Rating
- Must Play
