🕹️ Where to Play
Original Platform
Overview
Grab your radio controller (or in this case, your controller) and get ready for RC action. You have more than 28 different cars to choose from (each rated differently for speed, acceleration, and weight), though most of these are locked at the beginning of the game. As you progress through the game's four championship circuits, you'll gain access to more cars. • Saves via Controller Pak
Trivia & Facts
If they could have set the game up that way, it probably could be on its way to classic status right now instead of bargain bin nominee." Scott McCall gave the Nintendo 64 version two stars out of five, saying that it was "missing the most important ingredient of any game: fun.
Just take my advice and spend your money on another game." N64 Magazine gave the Nintendo 64 version 73%.
A sequel, RC Revenge, was released in 2000 for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2.
Although Acclaim Entertainment has been defunct since 2004, fans continued to support and extend the game by producing fan-made vehicles and courses, and by operating multiplayer servers.
Additionally, more recently the community has set up a Discord channel that serves as the major hub to talk about the game, host, advertise and join races, share content/mods or even help develop new tools and updates for the game - which the latest iteration consists of RVGL, a cross-platform rewrite/port of Re-Volts source code that runs natively on both Windows and Linux.
Mark Clarkson of Computer Gaming World praised the PC version's graphics and environments, and realistic RC-like handling, although he noted that the in-game map editor was poor.