Steel Rats is a game from Tate Multimedia that combines various different elements together for a biking trip through a hostile world, and at Gamescom we talked with developer Marta Matyjewicz about what fans can expect from the game.
"Steel Rats is designed to be like pure fun and gameplay," she explained. "It's a mixture of different genres like vehicular games, action games, platform games, and it's about wrecking things and riding."
"It's an arcade game where story matters, so you have to discover what's going on, because having robots in the city which are trying to kill you is not your usual thing, so you have to discover what it's all about, and you have to discover some secrets along the way to have like more background to the story. Also if you just want to beat your friends and be the fastest racer around, so just ride through the game, there's a high replayability to the game."
At Gamereactor we've been playing a preview build of Steel Rats and we've seen this for ourselves, as we took a few characters out for a ride as we sawed through enemies and barrier with our wheels and took on giant robots, combining platforming with Trials-esque gameplay. We haven't got much of a taste of the story just yet, but there's definitely something afoot in the world, and we're looking forward to seeing how this evolves, and how much destruction we can cause in the full thing.
Is Steel Rats on your radar?
