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Halfbrick Rocket Racing

Released under the casual "Halfbrick Fridays" lineup, Rocket Racing is a simple futuristic racing game where you control rocket ships in a 2D arena. Created as a simple to play, hard to master game with three…

3 September 2009

Halfbrick Rocket Racing is a racing developed by Halfbrick Studios, released 3 September 2009 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and iOS.

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What Halfbrick Rocket Racing is

Halfbrick Rocket Racing is a racing game developed by Halfbrick Studios and released in 2009. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Released under the casual "Halfbrick Fridays" lineup, Rocket Racing is a simple futuristic racing game where you control rocket ships in a 2D arena. Created as a simple to play, hard to master game with three controls: turn right, turn left, and go forward. Depth comes with the unique way in which your acceleration is controlled by pushing off walls, known ingame as a "Grind". Combine your grind with special boost panels and plan your trips around or through the disruptive cutout zones placed around most levels to aim for record times. Dynamic situations are made with the many courses available across the game's 6-tier campaign mode. In it, you'll be tasked to fulfill several conditions to…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Halfbrick Rocket Racing launched on 3 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version and Halo 3: ODST.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version, Halo 3: ODST.

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When did Halfbrick Rocket Racing come out?
Halfbrick Rocket Racing was released on 3 September 2009 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 and iOS.

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