No, the best way to wear them down is to rub paint with them or ram into them repeatedly when the opportunity presents itself. You can’t shunt other racers, you don’t have weapons that allow you to strike at them. The problem is that Racer Revenge didn’t add a combat system. It was fun! It marked the person who was trailing you, and if you killed them, they got no points and were immediately bumped down the rankings. F-Zero X and GX both allowed you to take out the competition as a legitimate strategy to climbing the ranks. Combat something that was not really an option in the first game. The central problem of Racer Revenge is that focus has been moved to combat. But the more you race, the more you realize that’s not true. Sure, there’s a tweak or two that may seem like a step back, but it’s still pod racing. Indeed, for the first race or two, you might actually fool yourself into believing that this is just that fresh sequel we all wanted. There’s certainly a lot that’s familiar here, and if you squint really hard, the two games are nearly indistinguishable. Upgrade your parts using your winnings and aim for first place. Pod racing is back, go jump in your future space chariot and win races. The concept of Racer Revenge is, at the very least, identical to the first game. It is like someone took a list of everything I liked about the first game and went out of their way to destroy it. While I hate to lay my cards down early, Racer Revenge is the most disappointed I have ever been by a sequel. I would have been happy with a new Racer that simply added additional tracks, updated graphics, and that’s it. 19 years after release, I finally jumped in to find out for myself whether or not I had missed out on something special. It reviewed about as well as a stubbed toe, so, if I dare to dream, the reception to the sequel could just be a repeat of that. I didn’t even try to rationalize that maybe - just maybe - the press wasn’t hot on the first game, either. I had known for years that there was a sequel to it on PS2, Star Wars: Racer Revenge, but I also heard it wasn’t very good. Weaving through narrow passages while managing your engine temperature and damage. High-speed racing through dangerous tracks. I admit that it’s based on the most pointlessly ostentatious scene in a bad movie, but in video game form, it was divine. Racer Revenge could only have been conjured by hatred for me specifically
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