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Hot on the heels of Lego Fortnite, Epic added what essentially amounts to Fortnite Mario Kart with the new Rocket Racing mode. Rocket Racing combines Rocket League with classic arcade racing and the anti-gravity shenanigans of Mario Kart 8, and you can play it for free in Fortnite starting now.
Fortnite Rocket Racing lets you bring your Rocket League cars and cosmetics to the multiplayer game, or you can pick from a selection of standard cars if you’ve never played Rocket League before. It looks like drifting and smart timing of your boost feature take the place of Mario Kart-style powerups and the antics they inspire, though there’s still plenty of over-the-top personality in Rocket Racing thanks to its Rocket League origins.
Like in Psyonix’s car-soccer game, you can boost jump, flip your car, and fly – and fall – on the tracks. It seems pretty complicated, though once you get the hang of it, it looks like the type of mechanics you could use to pull off some pretty sweet moves.
Rocket Racer launches with 26 tracks, three biomes, and ranked and unranked modes. Ranked modes are divided similar to Fortnite ranks, starting at Bronze and ending with Unreal.
Like Lego Fortnite, Epic promised to continue supporting Fortnite Rocket Racing with new features and cars throughout 2024, and you can spend V-Bucks in the item shop to buy new cars or pieces.
You can download Fortnite Rocket Racing for free on all platforms now by finding it in Fortnite’s Discover tab.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF