We've had our eyes on Over Jump Rally for some time now. Billed as a 'SEGA Rally Tribute', the developer of the game – Alessandro Schiassi – hopes that it might one day become an official sequel and is currently in discussions with Sega about making that happen.
In the meantime, however, Schiassi is hard at work making sure the game is as polished as possible, and he's just released a new gameplay video which shows off the quality of his work thus far.
Built using Unreal Engine, Over Jump Rally uses a variety of middleware solutions – such as Lumen, Nanite and Chaos Vehicle – to create one of the most visually-appealing rally games we've ever seen.
While Schiassi is targeting a Steam release first, he says he has plans to release the game on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. Sadly, the Steam Deck isn't powerful enough to run the game properly, but Schiassi says that it should "work fine" on more powerful portable PCs, such as the ROG Ally and Legion Go.
As for a playable demo, there's no release window as yet – but the game is in "good shape" according the developer, and is only missing VFX and game logic.
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looking forward to this. There are various parts of the forrest track from Sega Rally that look like they feature in that circuit. Mind you, the game logic is going to be a pretty big factor in whether its any good or not!
@pintofsimilar The handling is already finalized! I personally prefer it over the original.
By game logic, I mean the timer, the checkpoint system, the various game modes, the records, etc.
I'll get excited with a release point and price point in place.
Lookin pretty koll.
@vfXander ace, I assumed you meant the CPU controlled cars and that sort of stuff, which can make a massive difference.
Still looking great.
Is there footage of a remake version of the first/main Sega Rally track, as that's my favourite and the one I really want to see.
Looks brilliant. Can't wait for the PS5 port. Day 1.
@pintofsimilar Oh, right! I'll probably skip that for the demo, but I have a plugin that should handle that properly. In the original, the CPU cars were going their way and acted more as obstacles than actual drivers.
@RetroGames I focused on recreating the Forest only, as it would be a good testbed for various road surfaces. It was also the track in the Bootleg Sampler demo disc for Saturn!
The closest you can see as a Desert remake is in Sega Rally 3, search for "Desert 95". My version would look even better
@vfXander I've been playing a lot of SEGA Rally Online Arcade lately, and the Desert 95 mode is my favourite.
I pump the OG Sat OST via USB and TT away
@AJB83 Desert 95 is legit I'll borrow some aspects for my version. I almost decided not to start with my project when I found out it existed!
But then I realized that I could do a better job (thanks to UE5 and its libraries), and I'd like to see more tracks remade.
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