This is the natural next step if you loved F-Zero, Extreme-G, or Wipeout, but are disappointed by the lack of support in the arcade racing category. Wonderful sense of speed, lots of technical nuance, fun and interesting track designs, high difficulty, plenty of variety, plays well online. Downsides: huge difficulty spikes between tracks, many of the upgrade parts are not generally useful.

This game scratches that itch, that F-Zero did back in the day. Going fast never felt so good, and it's a one of the kind.
Shame that Redout 2 wasn't as polished or good as this one, but you can still play this one and have a blast.

The soundtrack is amazing, but make sure like every racing game out there to play with a controller.

The game does have a myriad of modes, including a campaign pseudo story mode, and its a blast to drive your hovership going at 400 miles per hour on insane tracks. All the DLC are worth it as well specially Mars Pack .

i give this a 9.5/10 Get it!

the sense of speed, wow, the pain of crashes, ouch, the duel stick flight controls, are great fun, this got updated to later version unreal engine, it looks good, the five dlc's you can grab from a key sights for just over twenty pence each, id recommend this game for sure, i think it's the best i ever played in the genre

*** Fantastic poppy HDR ***
*** A better Wipeout ***
I played this through on Xbox when it came out. Now restarting again on PC on my big OLED in the living room
A zen, medidative, high speed, intuitive, difficult, great control experience.
HDR is one of the best, bright colored, intense visuals I have ever seen.

I retrieved my feelings of playing classic Wipeout series when I was teenager

Tight and fun anti-grav racer. Captain Falcon would shed manly tears of joy.

incredible pc benchmark - high vfx detail, high framerate, low disk size

it’s also hella fun

fast flying cars racing
become a true racist

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Redout is super well polished and put together, but it's honestly kinda mid so far as AG racers go. Despite the name, it pulls more from the F-Zero side of the AG racing game family tree as opposed to Wipeout, and as a result the gameplay is actually pretty shallow. Really, the only things it takes from Wipeout are some of the aesthetics of its presentation (which are hit or miss and generally read more as copying the form without understanding the underpinning commentary, but that's an entirely different essay).
Gameplay primarily focuses on the spectacle of speed, and while it does that very well that means it has incredibly minimal substance. Ships are near uncontrollable (the best analogy I can use is Minecraft ice boating physics; to be clear, I'm saying this with a couple top 100 times to my name), which severely limits how interesting track design can be. As a result, progression is not through conquering interesting track design or learning how to beat AI that can give you a run for your money, but from simply adding more zeroes to the speedometer.
It's still enjoyable, don't get me wrong - the game is absolutely gorgeous and the dynamic music really elevates the experience a ton - but the skill floor is the exact same as the skill ceiling. Even at Veteran (maximum) difficulty, you'll never see an AI opponent after the first 20ish seconds of the race until you start lapping them. The few mildly difficult tracks in the game (Alaska Vertigo and Revolve; Europa Surface Sprint; Moon Spacepark and Explorer) end up reading as a blip on the radar.
The boss tracks, in my opinion, are probably the main draw. Each boss track is all 5 tracks from a given location smashed together into a several-minutes-per-lap endurance test, and while the AI somehow does even worse than it normally does when presented with a boss track, getting good at each of them feels amazing (even if the endgame stuff is roughly as difficult as the early game stuff).

If you want gameplay depth, look elsewhere (I highly recommend BallisticNG). If you just want to play a casual racing game that makes you feel cool, Redout is more or less the pinnacle.

an excellent speed game.

Not a great racing game. redout 2 is a lot better in many regards, but this one has VR support!