Road Redemption Racing Toward End of Summer 2016 Release

The spiritual fan successor to Road Rash, Road Redemption, has been on Steam's Early Access program for quite some time, but progress has been made. According to a Kickstarter Update posted yesterday, the team admitted to needing to do a much better job updating the development progress.

Here are the exact words on the update:

"Since January we have been focused on improving nearly every aspect of Road Redemption, and this has required us to rebuild a lot of systems before uploading a new build to Steam. Althrough we have taken longer than we hoped to complete the game, we are dedicated to making the game that we promised."

The team has added more developers to Road Redemption, and in the next month or two, a new build will be ready on Steam. Here's a list of changes:

• Improved bike driving and physics
• Revamped enemy AI
• Entirely new user interface
• New weapon upgrade system
• Unlockable bikes and riders
• Better missions with greater variety
• Story integration
• Updated levels with more routes to drive
• Improved visuals of enemies and vehicles
• Several new enemy types including challenging late level enemies
• Boss fights
• Splitscreen co-op improvements
• Online multiplayer

As for current plans, the goal is to finish the PC version by the end of the summer, so hopefully we will see a release by August. Until then, several new builds will be released on Steam's Early Access to reveal the progress. These builds will also include a beta for online multiplayer. And as for possible console versions? Don't worry, there are plans to release this for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, though there doesn't seem to be word on the Wii U. Maybe the Wii U version is cancelled?

Has everyone given up on the Wii U?