10 Upcoming January 2017 Video Game Releases To Look Out For
8. Road Redemption
What is it: The kickstarter spiritual successor to EA's rubber-burning Road Rash franchise is finally coming to the finish line, with the console versions arriving this month, if all goes well. Get your engines ready.
Road Redemption, currently on Steam Early Access, takes the classic Road Rash formula of weapons on bikes, and adds a bit more to the mix, such as guns, weather effects, four player split screen, and Shovel Knight.
Permanent upgrades on death give an enormous amount of arcade replayability, while the developers are also promising online multiplayer and a voice-acted story mode.
Road Redemption has been in Early Access for nearly two years now, and it's finally shaping up to a finished product. The designers are all ex-AAA devs and have a good pedigree, so barring any potential last minute delays, this should be the final lap for the game.
When's it coming out: 15 January for PS4/Xbox One.