Combat racing is a pretty sparse genre. You can find a few games on the consoles, but we would be hard-pressed to name one that’s available on the PC. Digital Reality has now filled that void with a port of their excellent combat racing game, SkyDrift. It straps you into the cockpit of a prop-driven aircraft with the goal of defeating your opponents using a combination of speed, weaponry, and good old-fashioned flying skill. Overall, SkyDrift is a fun little title, but has some issues that make us unable to recommend it unconditionally.
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A track editor would have been awesome in MK8, I'd have also settled for procedurally generated tracks that could be saved for future races.
Nice to see some alternatives for other platforms, but I've never played a Kart game that can match the feel of MK!
The nearest I've got is the recent Sonic titles, but they are not quite there (but fun) - and I'd love to see a Mario / Sonic Kart cross-over - if they could do it for the Olympics games, why not MK! As lonmg as it was made by the team responsible for MK8! :)
I know what you mean. MK will always remain the basis for comparison. I did really enjoy Diddy Kong Racing back in the day, though.
Developer Tyson Kubota took to Reddit to both announce, and gauge the demand for a port of his independently developed and free iOS title; Skydrift. Kubota is currently involved with Digital Development and Design at renowned film-distribution company, The Criterion Collection, but also released the self-crafted the recently released title in his spare-time.
