Get ready, get steady, and get going as the neon-infused speed runner, RAZED, will soon be hitting a console near you.
PQube and the development team at Warpfish Games have today confirmed the full release dates for their lightning fast speed runner. RAZED will be hitting Xbox One and Steam come September 15th 2018, with a month then passing before PS4 and Nintendo Switch players get the same opportunity on October 15th.
Created thanks to Edge Magazine’s ‘Get Into Games’ competition, RAZED is an experience that focuses on speed, with you needing to make it across the finish line in the quickest time possible. This will see you dancing and darting across dynamic levels that are littered with obstacles all designed to take you down. And it is here where power boosting skills are unlocked, allowing you to soar along with every second saved edging you closer to a triumphant run.
“With RAZED, we’ve taken the spirit that fuelled some of the most popular speed-runners and fused it with some stunning, neon-charged visuals that tap into some of the best arcade games from the last few decades,” says John Thompson, Designer at Warpfish Games.
“I think it’s a perfect marriage. Combined with the music it creates a kinetic environment focused on the concept of running as fast as you possibly can. Anyone can get the idea behind RAZED, but only the best will master the game. It really is a case of survival of the quickest.”
Features include:
- Non-stop escalation: Sprint through 60 dynamic levels spread across six unique worlds, each with a distinct visual style, unlockable abilities and pulse-pounding boss battles.
- Chart your own course: Veer off the beaten path and carve your own way through levels to achieve seemingly impossible times and unlock the S ranks.
- Online leaderboards and ghost data: Challenge the world via online leaderboards, and race against friends’ ghosts in a game of asynchronous one-upmanship.
- Fuss-free speedrunning: Nobody wants to wait around while striving for perfection. Falling short of your target time? Simply jab the restart button to return to the start of the level without any loading times.
- Secret challenge levels: Employ all your different skills and abilities to find RAZED’s toughest maps and tackle them head-on.
“I can truly say, once you see RAZED in full flow, you can’t keep your eyes off it,” adds Amaria Larchet, Product Manager at PQube. “It’s the kind of game we can imagine people watching someone play over their shoulder thinking ‘well, that looks straightforward enough’, before taking it on for themselves and finding out things aren’t quite so easy. It really is a head turner.”
RAZED is all about going fast… or die trying, and we’ll be sure to remind you when it hits Xbox One!
