Normally in order to unlock each track you’ll have to first complete the one before it, although you may optionally pay a separate $0.99 unlock fee for levels two and three if you wish to see them much sooner. I am serious about this game’s top-tier difficulty, seeing as how I have yet to make it past the 47% mark on the game’s second gloriously neon-infused stage (which - judging from the soundtrack - is apparently called “Miami”).
There may only be three different stages to play through here, all of which are 100% unrandomized, but trust me when I say it’s going to take you a very long time before you’ve seen everything offered. These controls - I am happy to say - function utterly flawlessly, which is a fairly good thing since Neon Drive is rightfully comparable to Boson X ( our review) in regards to just how soul-crunchingly hard this game can truly be. Speaking of which, you can perform this stylish lane switching easily - not to mention near instantaneously - just by tapping either the left or right hand side of your iDevice’s screen. One of my favorite visual touches with Neon Drive ’s artwork definitely has to be the real-time light trails left by your car’s taillights as you rapidly shift back and forth between lanes of tricky obstacles. Truly the graphics here are one of Neon Drive ’s biggest highlights, perfectly recreating every last nuance - right down to the shadowing, grid-laced fields, and stylized lens-flares - of its nostalgic high-contrast world. Either way, your goal is to safely drive your retro supercar down three different neon-infused vistas that look as though they could have come have come straight from some lost Tron sequel.