A Grand Prix star is rising

Getting under the bodywork of the retro-tastic New Star GP with New Star Games’ community manager Mark Baldwin

Our team can all fit round a table. There’s only ten of us,” says New Star Games’ community manager Mark Baldwin. “We’ve never done anything like this before, it’s completely out of our comfort zone.” Well, if that’s the case, how come the studio’s Grand Prix game is packing more features than many full-price racers? Let’s get under the carbon fibre bodywork and take a look. Visually, New Star GP’s flat-shaded polygons nod to Sega’s 1993 arcade classic Virtua Racing, but it feels deeper thanks to some impressively interwoven sim-like additions including staff management, car upgrades, and driver rivalries. But just like its arcade inspiration, New Star GP distils the sport. This pick-up-and-play ethos looks likely to set New Star GP apart from its peers. “The way that we always try…

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