Wed Apr 28 2021
Super Soccer Tournament is here! Hone your skills, gain rank and win prizes! Be the star of the playfield!
Drive Ahead! Sports takes the already chaotic formula of the original Drive Ahead! and injects it with a competitive sports theme that works surprisingly well. As a fan of physics-based brawlers, I find the car soccer mode to be the standout. It’s basically 'Rocket League' if it were a 2D gladiator match. The controls are intentionally floaty, which leads to those hilarious, 'only-in-this-game' moments where you accidentally backflip into your own goal.
The variety of vehicles—from monster trucks to lawnmowers—keeps the meta-game interesting. Each vehicle interacts with the ball differently, requiring you to adjust your strategy on the fly. The multiplayer is where the game truly lives; playing against a friend on the same device or online is a recipe for shouting and laughter. It doesn’t take itself seriously, and that’s exactly why it’s one of the best arcade sports games on the App Store. It’s loud, fast, and wonderfully stupid.
Hilarious physics-based gameplay
Local and online multiplayer modes
Dozens of unique unlockable vehicles
Epic boss levels and special events
Daily rewards and challenges
Record and share your best goals
Heavier vehicles like the Monster Truck are great for defense and pushing the ball, while smaller bikes are better for jumping over opponents to score quick goals.
Tapping the left and right sides of the screen controls your drive. Tap both together to perform a jump, which is essential for hitting the ball mid-air.
The first player to score 3 goals wins. Use the arena's edges to bounce the ball over your opponent's head if they are playing defensively.
Engage in 1v1 or 2v2 matches where the only goal is to knock the ball into the net using your car as a mallet.
Yes, Drive Ahead! Sports is free to download and play, with optional in-app purchases.
Yes, it supports local multiplayer on one device and online real-time multiplayer.
I love drive ahead sports. I’ve had it for about a year and a half now I think, and it’s awesome! The skins are really cool, I love to sometimes make my cars red and so it’s just red against red. Even though it’s technically blue against red. Just something goofy I do. It would be amazing if you could just add one small thing. So you know how when you jump, your jump doesn’t reset until one of your wheels hits the ground, the goal etc. but not for the ball, or another player? It would be amazing if you could reset your jump on the ball and on another player, because maybe if you’re skilled enough, you could do this and then use the extra jump to put the ball into the goal. If the developers read this, please consider this suggestion.(Adding this on after) One more thing I forgot. Please fix the cars glitching. What I mean by this is the cars sometimes glitch and get stuck together, or even in the ground! Thanks. I believe that is all.
Basically, the game is a piece of crap. First off, in the game, it will take you 1 year to get good or to at least get a new character. In the actual, non-crappy version of drive ahead when you play a game you actually play against characters you have and there are no upgrades so you don’t have to worry about it, BUT on the sports version you have to play against either a really great character or if you get lucky you get to play against a character you have but it would be fully upgraded and it’s a rare chance to get a win. Like, when I’m in a game I try to push a car away but instead I get flung or stomped on. When racing you play usually against a tank car or a high speed car. NOW with chests, you only get one character upgrade usually every time so it’s impossible to start getting good in a month. Now with the controls, you have to upgrade that to so you’ll rage every time you lose. Also whenever I’m in a game and the ball goes behind me I am screwed because the opponent is impossible to pass if he is also behind you unless you have an over powered strategy to do so. TICKETS ARE SO BAD, they take a day to get one of them. So for missions, they take either a day and a half or two to do one. Plus, doing any racing arenas, if you slip up you will have to wish your opponent did to other wise he will go flying over you. Another annoying part is the tutorial, with the tickets because you get three every time you complete something and when you’re done you get one per day. Basically short story here is that this will make you rage so don’t get it and buy anything and waste your money, just don’t. Just buy the original drive ahead.
I wouldn’t say it’s better than the regular Drive Ahead. But it’s equal, and the regular one is pretty good. This one has more glitches. This version definitely has much more variety. Also it has more options like 2v2. That’s fun. I dislike the ticket system. Tickets should come faster (we can’t even see the exact amount of time it takes). The game isn’t pay2win, however, the whole upgrade thing leans it towards that a bit. One weird GLITCH I found (which wasn’t really in the game) was on the App Store it says there’s an in app purchase (classic character pack) but I can’t read the description or click on it or anything. I wouldn’t want to pay for something that I don’t know what it does. Updates: - new GLITCH ever since I bought the starter pack, there’s been this gray square on the opposite side of the 1/2p square. When you tap it it makes a noise but does nothing. MAJOR GLITCH: this glitch brought the rating down. In the game right when the match was about to be sudden death, I scored a goal. Then the floating ball thing just froze! Please watch this video. Overall the game isn’t bad, it just needs a few tweaks, more content and tons of bug fixes
I remember first playing this game years ago with my friends all the time and I decided to download it myself recently. I remember there being multiple modes in this game. How’s there’s only one which is soccer. I’m not sure if I have to unlock the other modes that I’ve played years back but I haven’t seen evidence that would suggest that. It should just be called dirge ahead soccer because that’s the ONLY sport I’ve seen there. There used a football mode, racing, and I think I remember being able to somewhat customize the soccer matches. I also think it’s REALLY dumb to have an energy system for going against bots. Like cmon, I can’t even play against real people? I know there’s the local 2v2 mode or whatever but I bet that costs energy to play. The car customizations are also pretty lame but that’s just my personal opinion. It honestly really is a fun game but it looks like the developers have gotten really lazy and were doing these updates to make more money and improve the already great quality of the game.
I have seen bad reviews (about a half of the reviews) but the game is great, and there’s only a few problems, and the first one is tickets. I really want so you can play ticket mini games or something to gain them (maybe they would cost 5 energy or something) and also the occasional glitch where you can lop your head off in mission 3 of soccer if you align yourself correctly. It’s really funny and all but on versus mode it just burrows one of my wheels which I would not let slide 😭 there’s also that if you first download the game, it takes 24 hours to get a new mode in missions, which is reasonable. Besides that it’s great. (Edit ahead:) someone said that it takes a year or to to get a new skin and my initial response was “oh, just do the super soccer tournaments” and that works, but ever since I got the black car from that, I never got anything else. Please fix it
Edit- I changed my rating to 4 stars because it is obvious that the devs are making attempts to listen to feedback and the game really is a lot of fun. I will re-install and see if the update helped with the ticket situation. Original- I love the concept of this game and thoroughly enjoyed the first one as well. It is definitely a game I could find myself playing for hours at a time but unfortunately I uninstalled this game due to the ticket system implemented. I can only advance one or two levels at a time and then I have to wait for more tickets, so after around 10 minutes I find myself closing the game again until the next day. With the abundance of games out there that allow you to play as many times as you want I just can’t see a good reason to let this take up storage on my device. I’d even be willing to pay for the game itself so long as the ticket system was removed. Again, this game is awesome, but is a little ruined for me by the use of tickets.
So, the game is great. When I started playing it, it was a bit stale. The racing update fixed this. I have some ideas: 1. Dodgeball. Basically, you have to shoot a ball with some sort of gun, and try to hit the other player. It would be hard to make, but you guys have surprised us in the past. 2. Daily trials again. I heard that you removed the daily trials either because of time restraints, lost space, or exploitability. I have an idea: put the game’s files in some sort of server. This prevents hacking, cheating, and modding the game. I know servers are expensive, but you can add some sort of “Support us” button. 3. Baseball. Basically, it’s kinda like soccer, but you have to get a ball past the other player in the “strike zone”. If it hits outside that zone, nothing happens. 4. Lacrosse. Basically just soccer with a smaller ball, if you know what I mean. 5. Water sports. Maybe you could add some sort of water sport. Maybe swimming, which would be motorsports in water. Or water polo, just soccer, you know, in water. I hope you like these ideas, and it would be awesome if you add these someday. I understand if you can’t. The mechanics would be hard to add, but still. You can carry over the mechanics from other existing sports. Really like the game. Thanks for reading it :). Keep up the good work, DoDreams!
OK so I first started playing this in years and the bots are a lot more advanced and they constantly keep shoving me out out way but in tournaments I can Phase through them and whatever vehicle I picked I feel like that vehicle is what they should have you need to fix the bots The AI system should not be allowed to have a vehicle that is better than you it's just not fair the boss can just keep shopping out-of-the-way when they're behind you so they can just make a goal its an unfair advantage for the bots if I wanted a challenge I should be able to increase the AI's thinking this makes me not want to play the game if I can't even get one score without losing to a bot that isn't even good the box need to be fixed that's my only complaint the rest of the game is good besides the fact that the bots I have an unfair advantage
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