If you post any comments after 6pm UK time this evening, I may not respond for several hours because a game I've been waiting to be released is released at 6pm today i.e. Way of the Hunter, the highly anticipated hunting game that may be a decent competitor to one of my other favourite games, theHunter: Call of the Wild; though I do not condone real hunting and haven't eaten meat or seafood since the summer of 1989 when I met my vegan wife.

To anyone who has a Groupee's account and has previously purchased bundles from them; they are shutting their servers down soon; someone in the Groupee's chat said the download servers would be shutting on the 21st of August. I have found some Greenlight bundles with unredeemed Steam keys, but most of the earlier bundles seem to have been voided.

307 Racing:

In Brief:
307 Race is a low poly racing game with garage, paint shop and upgrade stations.

You can see a video of game play HERE.

The Game:
The game starts with a vehicle parked in a garage with the garage door opening. you can view inside and the view out of the garage by moving your mouse. Pressing play brings up the main menu that includes Options, Garage, Paint Shop, Upgrades and Single Player buttons. The options menu enables you to change the graphic quality to allow for much older computers with a _ & - button, you can select automatic transmission ( if you don't want to be bothered with having to think about changing gear as well as a match making server that has three selections, Default, EU and US (sadly no Asian or Australian servers).

The garage includes a hatchback vehicle with a speed of 125mph. you can select different colours, but they cost more money, ranging from $45K to $375K. You can select two cars i.e. the Yellow or the bright pink vehicles for free. the rest cost you the listed amount, for example the light blue hatchback called Hatchback 7 costs £205,000. To purchase it or any others, click on the Green button to buy or the red button to cancel it. All vehicles perform the same no matter what you pay for them. You have a starting bank of 3 million dollars.

Once you've selected your vehicle, you can go paint various parts of it via the paint shop, each paint job costing cash. you can change the colour of the body, glass tint, brake disks, rim colour and neon under carriage glow. You can then go and upgrade your vehicles top speed, acceleration, brake power, tire/tyre traction and steering sensitivity. Each of these can be upgraded between 8 to 10 times, each upgrade costing the same amount of money.

Once you've sorted your vehicle you can then select the single player option which gives you two choices, Free Roam or Races. Choosing Races give you access to four routes, i.e. Circuit Hills (8 cars) , Mountain Lake (4 Cars), Race 2 (4 cars)and Race 3 (2 cars)with one locked route called race 4. The latter three appear not to have been given a name because they are actually called Race 2 Name, Race 3 Name and Race 4 Name. Each of the races has prize money available for the first three to cross the finish line apart from Race 3 that awards cash to the first two over the line. To unlock Race 4 you have to pay $100, 000. Once unlocked you'll discover that there are no opponents to race against, plus the race is the same as race 3.

Controls:

forward Arrow = move forward
Left Arrow = steer left
Right Arrow = steer right
Space Bar = Brake
S = change gear up
X = change gear down
C = toggle view from chase to steering wheel view
B = look back
Mouse = select menu items

Conclusion:
Well, there are too many issues with this game for me to actually enjoy playing it. Firstly, there seems no point in selecting a different car and paying for it because you can repaint any of the vehicles via the paint shop for a lot less than what you spend on the even the cheapest vehicle. Upgrading your cars speed and other upgrades appears to make you vehicle unbeatable. I got from last place to first in only several seconds at the start of the race after upgrading my vehicle; however, even when I restarted the game with a new car, and didn't upgrade it, it was still just as fast and handled the same. .

Driving on the roads seem reasonable, if a little spongy at times. The first four routes are different but the one you pay to unlock is the same as one the third nameless one, also, it's not really a race as you don't race against anyone. In every race, once passing the finish line my vehicle just kept on going with no need to even control the vehicle. It was similar to most decent rally games where you can watch your race after the event. I won every race but didn't get any of the prize money.

If the developer fixed these issues, the game could be a reasonable coffee break time waster; but as it stands it's a game I'll be deleting. and instead I'll go play one of my old favourite rally games Flatout 1 or 2, both of which are around the same price to buy as this game is over on Itch.io.

I couldn't see any way to increase the number of laps either; which, if this game worked as it should would be a must have.

Final points, there is no multiplayer despite it indicating in the options there is and occasionally the driver would appear to jump out of his vehicle in odd looking ways. The only difference between the fastest and the fantastic graphic settings are shadows are added in varying qualities between the six available settings i.e. fastest, fast, simple, good, beautiful, fantastic; and. finally as mentioned above there appears to be no difference between a fully upgraded vehicle with respect to handling, speed, acceleration etc to one that has no upgrades, which apart from the additional time to select your different upgrades, does nothing.

A thumbs down from me.... :(

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found zero hits from 59 antimalware engines. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/70764ef4edb485b4cbcc38c76d34e5719e557bff3ba82a0773827ec4eccebeb9?nocache=1