Re-Volt – An LGR Retrospective Review

Quite possibly the best combat remote-controlled car racing game yet made. Seriously, Re-Volt was fantastic in 1999, and its gameplay formula remains timeless decades later. Think R.C. Pro Am meets Mario Kart. Pure win!

● LGR links:

● Buy the game on GOG or Steam for PC:

● Re-Volt 1.2 (update):

● RV House (chat & play online):

● Re-Volt Zone (new cars & tracks):

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[SirDBee]

Fun Fact: Re-Volt! was the first game I ever worked on when I entered the games industry in March 1999. 18 years later, it is still my career! Such great memories!

[MurcuryEntertainment]

You can really tell that there was some passion in how this game was made.

[DasPocci]

OH MY GOD MY DAD INSTALLED THIS ON THE FAMILY COMPUTER AND I COULD NEVER REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS GAME! I SAW THE THUMBNAIL AND I KNEW IT WAS THE GAME!

[ameanasaur]

An 8 year old review of an older game is still some of the better content on YouTube. Don’t ever stop LGR.

[fullname]

I remember when my mom played this game pretty much for the entire night. It was a night before we would go on holidays and I guess she was so excited and couldn't sleep. My older brother somehow showed her the game and while we all fell a sleep she went on the pc and literarly played this game untill the morning. Never before or after did she play videogames.

[ChaosShadowx]

I cannot describe the nostalgia I get from watching this. Re-Volt was my first true love of any video game, having owned it on the dreamcast. It was singularly the one game I would always return to time after time. I adored every bit of it, the cars, the tracks, the racing.

[Dinjoralo.]

Oh my god, the antennae on the cars flop around, _it's so adorable!_

[RedSubaru]

why cant games now be like games like revolt, cheat codes, track editor, sand box etc. sigh i miss the old days

[StaelTek]

for a 1999 game, i am REALLY impressed for the graphics!

[djpetenice]

13:00 I worked for Tsunami the company that made the sit down version. I started out in the shipping dept when they first built the cabinets and started testing the software to work with the steering wheel, accel pedal and braking. I moved my way up into assembly of the sit down and eventually made friends with the software engineers. At the time I was making techno and house music at home in my studio. I asked if there was a way they could replace the music with mine. So they did. So if those sit-down versions are still out there they have my version of the soundtrack on them. I worked my way up into sound design and upgraded/replaced the sound effects for the other titles they bought for their motion based systems. This brought back a lot of fun memories in my life from 2003-2006.

[eternalcherryjubilee]

If I didn't found this game, got addicted, and then tried to dive into the modding world, I probably wouldn't major Computer Science right now. It might be cheesy to say but this game helped me to define my future. I really wanna thank the developers if I could and thanks a lot, LGR of course, for reviewing this awesome piece of greatness!

[MadMovieMakers]

This looks sweet, I love seeing these classic racing games

[huleyn]

There is an online mod for this game that is still alive. Its like a lobby and theres around 100-200 people racing every evening. Though i gotta say the people playing are ridiculously good, being veterans, and i had no chance lmao

[StardollDJ]

I'm still playing this game today. It's on steam and the team at RVGL has made the game so much better with added tracks and cars. They even do community multiplayer events tho I have yet to join on one.

[AMINNAMJOYNIK]

OMG, I spent most of my childhood with this game !
It was awesome !
My favourite one was the unlockable gliding car (the one looks like UFO!

[lastSKYsamurai]

Wow. Somehow Volt Recharge landed in my feed & it suddenly hit me another urban rc game I once had on pc. & here we are, 20+ years later. Holt flip wow! What a nostalgia hit. It was the bowling ball power up that confirmed this WAS the game I was thinking of too. So wild.

[AkshaySahu]

It bought tears in my eyes. This game was such a masterpiece

[otaviorbs]

First played in 2002 when I was 5. Every year I come back, already 23 years old

[nathanbinns]

I was the unbeatable, immortal master of this game back in the day. I played every level so many times I could just about do them all with my eyes closed. I played it again about a year ago and sucked at it so badly that I stopped playing out of shame. Some things are best kept as memories.

[drangus]

They really nailed the physics of this game. Nothing else drives like it.