Steel Rats is a visceral and groundbreaking evolution of the 2.5D action arcade genre, fusing destructive, octane-fueled motorbike combat and death-defying stunt gameplay, set in a visually stylized retro-future world.Become one with your bike as you master the realistic physics-based controls of these powerful and deadly vehicles. Choose how you want to tear through the stylized and highly detailed environments of Steel Rats, traversing up, down, left and right as your bike speeds fluidly in and out of the game world, over rooftops and through enemy-infested tunnels.
Join the Steel Rats, a larger-than-life punk biker gang who once ruled the streets of Coastal City and now find themselves as the last line of defense against an invading horde of destructive and constantly evolving army of junkbots. Choose your character, and unlock new special abilities and customizable bikes to fight with style through vast areas of the city in a deadly mix of speed, agility and firepower.
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Breaking news from Coastal City, as an alien invasion by a mysterious and deadly species of Junkbots has begun. Fearless reporter Veronica Vance is on the ground bringing you the first details of how this disaster started and the identities of the Steel Rats, a heroic biker gang doing what all good biker gangs do: saving their city from aliens.
Where did the Junkbots come from? Who sent them? Is that a toaster they’re using as a weapon of destruction? These are the questions plaguing the people of Coastal City and only through this extra special video edition of the Coastal Post will you get your first glimpse of the invading armada and see what brought a city to ruin.
Meet the colorful characters and personalities that make up the fearless Steel Rats, a biker gang with no choice but to defend their city from the invading horde. See their spectacular riding skills! Witness their leather clad, spike-laden shoulder pads! Gasp as they take to the streets at full throttle, ready to wreck and ride.
Steel Rats features music from the Japanese rock trio The 5.6.7.8’s, who shot to fame after being featured in Kill Bill: Volume 1 with their hit song “Woo Hoo.” A remastered version of their track “Hoovering” will be featured in Steel Rats and was recorded exclusively for the game in the famous Parisian Midilive Studios, where music for films such as Taken and Hellboy II: The Golden Army was also recorded.
Steel Rats is coming to the PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2018.
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