There was once a time when space combat games were rare – now there’s so many out or upcoming that I feel Redout: Space Assault looks merely nice> in its first preview footage today, rather than something to get trembilngly excited over. First teased back in June, it’s a spinoff from 34BigThings’s Redout, a hovercar racer that played like a blend of F-Zero and Wipeout. Today’s footage gives us our first peek at the game in action, and it reminds me a lot of Factor 5’s Rogue Squadron games on the Gamecube. Take a space-age peek for yourself at some dogfighting below

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Redout, the F-Zero and Wipeout-inspired racer, is returning next year, and it’s looking a little different. Redout: Space Assault ditches the fixed racetracks of yesterday’s future, and instead heads out into orbit for frenetic stellar battles between dogfighting spaceships.

Get a taste of the new direction by checking out the teaser, below.

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John mentioning MegaRace reminds me: we never post about Redout [official site] being out. Redout is a futuristic hover-racing game inspired by games like F-Zero and Wipeout, with futurecars zipping around wild futuretracks. And it came out two weeks ago. Whoops. “I played exactly one race of it and it is both pretty and fast,” our Graham tells me, which is reason enough to bring it up now. Observe, futurecars:

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