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2018 · Arcade · Indie

Antigraviator

In the year 2210, racing has evolved far beyond its expected limits. New terraforming capabilities paired with scientific breakthroughs in the field of antigravity have given birth to a new spectacle: the Antigraviator tournament. In Antigraviator, players will race on exquisitely detailed stages, full of light-speed danger, chaos and mayhem. Gamers will guide their Grav in three gameplay modes across four different worlds with three tracks each. These dynamic courses come to life, while pushing the power of Unity to the limit.

Released: 6 June 2018
Platforms: PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One
Genres: Arcade Indie Racing Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: Iceberg Interactive
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Science fiction
Country: Belgium
Age ratings: ACB PG USK 6 CLASS_IND L GRAC ALL PEGI 3 ESRB E
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and 1 more
Time to beat: 5hmain story9hcompletionist

About

Antigraviator is an anti-gravity racing video game developed by Belgian developer Cybernetic Walrus and published by Iceberg Interactive on June 6, 2018, for Microsoft Windows. It was ported to PlayStation 4 on October 29, 2019, and to Xbox One on May 1, 2020.

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Gameplay

Antigraviator is an anti-gravity racing game in the vein of Wipeout and F-Zero, to which the game has been compared. The game has a single-player mode and a multiplayer mode that supports up to eight players. The game features no speed limit, as a result the game says to be the fastest game ever made.

Story

Antigraviator's setting is described as a near future where racing has gotten very popular due to scientific breakthroughs in anti-gravity and terraforming. As a result of these breakthroughs, the antigraviator tournament was born. The anti-gravity ships used in this tournament are called 'Gravs'.

Development

Antigraviator was expected to release in Q2 2018 for Windows PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game developer is Belgian indie studio Cybernetic Walrus. Cybernetic Walrus is composed of alumni of Howest University in Belgium. The game is made using the Unity engine.

The game was announced to receive a Kickstarter campaign in April 2017. Subsequently, the game failed to receive funding.

Reception

Antigraviator received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.

Destructoid reviewed the game positively while noting that Antigraviator's attempts to differentiate itself from other games of its genre failed to add to the overall package, and wrote, "The track design is solid, the sense of speed is great, and controls are tight and feel familiar for anyone who’s played a racing game." Push Square, by contrast, disliked the game due to its unwieldy handling, dysfunctional trap system, and poor presentation in spite of its sense of speed and variety of modes.