Trailblazers is a fresh new co-operative racing title with an innovative on-track game mechanic: paint the track, boost on your colour and work as a team to win! Take control of high-speed racers in
Trailblazers won me over with its simple but intriguing concept. It's a three-on-three futuristic racing game in which you'll paint the track as you race and gain boost while riding over your team's color. Today, we've got another look at t...
Rising Star Games and Supergonk have released a new trailer for Trailblazers, its February-announced cooperative arcade racer, highlighting multiplayer gameplay. Trailblazers will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC digitally in May. Watch the trailer below.
Put a Supergonk on it
I've been a bad PC gamer lately: instead of playing PUBG or CS:GO or Rainbow Six: Siege, I've been playing Splatoon 2, Nintendo's colorful take on the shooter. It's a great game, and the idea of covering the playing field in ink to help you swim faster—and balancing that goal with the more immediate payoff of killing enemy players—is ripe for remixing in other genres. I didn't think the first would be a racing game, but after half an hour of playing Trailblazers, I feel pretty confident in saying the idea works brilliantly. It's the first racing game I've played where co-op is the core conceit: you're always racing with a teammate or two, dragging paint behind your car to carve a colorful trail in your wake that doubles as a long, winding boost pad for your team. The idea takes only a few seconds to understand, but it brings a surprising amount of strategy to a genre about going fast.For example: maybe it's not actually that import
It's not often that a developer takes the words right out of my mouth, but developer Supergonk did just that when they, too, called Trailblazers "F-Zero meets Splatoon." It's a co-op racer where each team competes to paint the track with their color in order to gain a speed advantage—you move faster while driving in your color—and it's got delightfully over-the-top rocket cars. Trailblazers supports 3v3 online multiplayer and four-player local split-screen multiplayer, though you can also play by yourself in singleplayer challenges. Of course, its painting mechanic is more exciting in multiplayer where you can blaze a trail for your teammates to ride like a slipstream. You can also "capture key areas to dynamically change the racing line," presumably to skew the course in your color's favor. "Some drivers are paint-focused, whilst others are boost-focused," Trailblazers' official site reads, encouraging diverse
Rising Star Games and independent developer Supergonk, which is formed of veterans from studios such as Codemasters, Bizarre Creations, and Lionhead, have announced Trailblazers, a new co-op arcade racing game coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, Mac, and Linux. Here is an overview of the game, via its official website: About Trailblazers is …
In the upcoming 3v3 futuristic racing game Trailblazers, you'll work together with your teammates to paint the track. Doing so will set you up for success in subsequent laps, as driving over your team's color gives your vehicle a boost. The...
