Redout - V.E.R.T.E.X. Pack (DLC)

If you already own Redout 2 and you have been hungry for more track real estate, the V.E.R.T.E.X. Pack is exactly what it sounds like: a straight content injection. Six additional circuits land in both the single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer, slotting neatly into the existing rotation without asking you to learn a new ruleset or fiddle with settings. You fire it up, the tracks are there, you race. That simplicity is a genuine virtue for a DLC at this price tier. For the uninitiated, Redout 2 is a futuristic anti-gravity racer in the lineage of WipEout and F-Zero, pushing speeds that make most other racing games feel like Sunday drives. The base game already had an impressive track list built around wall-riding, aggressive drafting, and ship-tuning across multiple classes. V.E.R.T.E.X. adds six circuits that lean into the series' signature approach: sweeping banked corners, tight chicanes where a millimetre of misjudgement costs you a second, and enough vertical geometry to keep your stomach guessing. If you play with a wheel, be aware that anti-grav racers like this are almost universally better on a gamepad or arcade stick. The steering model here rewards analog thumb precision over rotational wheel input. Multiplayer is where these extra tracks earn their keep most. Online PvP sessions benefit from course variety more than any other mode, and having six fresh layouts to rotate through extends the competitive lifespan noticeably. Remote Play Together support means you can technically share the content with friends over the internet even if they do not own it, which is a nice bonus for the Saturday night crowd. There is no local split-screen, which is a genuine limitation if your goal is couch co-op on a single machine. Four drunk friends on the sofa will need four individual setups or a Remote Play workaround. The honest caveat is that this is DLC, not a standalone experience. Its value is entirely tethered to how much you already like Redout 2. If you bounced off the base game because the speed felt oppressive or the learning curve too steep, six new tracks will not fix that. But if Redout 2 is already in your rotation and you have been lapping the same circuits until they feel memorised, V.E.R.T.E.X. is the obvious next step. The 83% positive Steam rating on over a thousand reviews suggests the core community agrees.

Riley · Scout Team

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