![]() ![]() Sometimes it is a race, in which opponents can be eliminated with a swift spade to the face (although numbers are replenished from the infinite ranks of other motorists), and sometimes you are outright told to murder anyone else. These motorcyclists will beat you with iron bars and stab you with knives and batter you with spades and rend you with chains if you get too close, which means that you must attempt to murder them at 120MPH before they can do these things. You drive fast along a desert road filled with cars and other motorcyclists. Which is to say, at heart Road Redemption is incredibly stupid, because Road Rash was incredibly stupid and to do anything else would be sick and twisted villainy. I took Road Redemption for a test drive three years ago, and as if the increasingly rapid passage of time wasn't already bewildering enough, I'm fairly surprised to find how fundamentally similar the game is in 2017. The chain is mine once again.Īctually, I think I prefer the spade now. Road Redemption, a spiritual sequel Kickstarted back in 2013, has spent the past 18 months promising it's about to leave Steam Early access, and now, finally, it has. It's a motorbike racing game, but really it's about hitting people in the face with chains. ![]() This was the experience of trekking to the local games shop every school lunchtime, and paying the very obviously child-hating storekeeper 25p for a ten minute go on a Sega Mega Drive running Road Rash. THE CHAIN THE CHAIN HIT EACH OTHER WITH THE CHAIN ALL THE TIME THE CHAIN. "Yeah, i'm a criminal, but society's to blame.HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIN."The next time you get across the finish line it will be in a wheelchair".(To Pearl McKurdy after level 5) "Off me, Pearl, or i'll hurt more than your feelings."."Video games and saturday morning cartoons destroyed my healthy sense of reality."."Pa used to take me out at night to show me how to hunt endangered species for fun and profit."."I live my life as if I were a bad guy in an action film.".Three of the other seven bikers are friendly towards him at the beginning of the game, and the other four are ambivalent towards him. ![]() Despite his erratic and violent behaviour, and his unwillingness to be outwardly friendly to anyone else, Axle is widely loved by the other bikers.He is the poorest character in career mode, starting with only $200.Like his description says Axle does not in fact have a good side to get on, as he is either ambivalent to or hates all riders except Slim Jim, who also ends up on his bad side as the levels progress.However, when playing as Pearl after level 5 Axle will suddenly turn hostile towards you and begin threatening you in a pre-race conversation, and no longer avoid fighting you in-game.He will also never attack Pearl in the middle of a race, contrary to his usually aggressive nature. He is the boyfriend of Pearl McKurdy, yet oddly enough when you play as either Pearl or Axle and talk to the other before a race you receive a neutral response.In-game he is equipped with a chain and his original bike is the 750cc Kamikaze ZYX 750N. Erratic and somewhat insane, Axle is a very violent biker and when talked to will either make nonsensical comments about his philosophy and his bizarre upbringing, or make very graphic threats of violence towards to the player if he feels threatened by their racing ability - usually after level 4 or 5 when the player has demonstrated their skill on the track. He is a playable character for the remake of the Road Rash for PC. He appears in first two levels of the first game and appears in all five levels of Road Rash II. Don't try to get on Axle's good side - he doesn't have one."Īxle is a biker who appears in all three genesis games. Bose Jefferson, losing, his wrist getting crushed, defeat, failure
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