Zero Gear - Racing at the Homeless Shelter

We should make a department up as gamers called the 'Games Trust' where we rehome abused and abandoned games. Games where the rights have been thrown about the place and promptly ignored, games where the sum total of care given to making sure they still have a future is zero. Games like Zero Gear...

Zero Gear happens to be a quite nice little kart-racing title, its got plenty of tracks to keep players going, a large amount of different modes to go along with the tracks and arenas, as well as a pretty simple and workable control scheme. All this, along with some pretty graphics and a open mod system should make things work right?

We'll wrong, this game unfortunately is about as dead as they come thanks to a mix of circumstance and rights issues. Its dead because while its got all of what I said above, its got no hook anywhere to make people actually pay attention and, lack of attention on a multiplayer focused game equals a death-knell. The other issue is that the rights don't actually belong to the main dev studio anymore, stopping them from actually adding new content. Instead the rights belong to one of their old ex-devs who seems intent on not actually doing anything with the title, instead just letting it sit there and rot away.

And its a shame, because if you do have friends who own this game, there's some real fun to be had and I mean some really great fun, the controls work brilliantly, the various power-ups are all very silly and easy to use and the large amount of tracks, containing loads of different ideas means that theres a lot of mileage with friends. There's even a really great character editor to really provide a much needed bit of sparkle.

Its sad really and makes you wish that it was looked after more.