I’m not against hard games, and games that challenge me and push me to do better.

I played quite a few modes, on quite a few tracks, and I only managed to squeak into 1st place once. But on just the medium difficulty, I won one single race. Now I’m an experienced gamer, I’ve 3 starred all the cups in MK8D on 200cc. Speaking of losing races, this leads me to my last issue- the difficulty for a game like this is just way too high. At times, it feels like the entire game could be played without having to go on the main track areas at all. I’ve lost countless races because I missed a shortcut right at the end that the AI just doesn’t seem to miss at all.

Pretty much all the tracks I’ve played had shortcuts, or alternate paths, for almost the entire track. But this leads me into my second issue- there are just too many shortcuts. A lot of these ‘perform trick here’ areas are on the main track, which doesn’t sound like a bad thing at first.

You can perform tricks and showy driving, like 2-wheel driving, going backwards (which also reverses your steering, like real life) and even powerslides, and certain parts of the track will reward you with nitro/boost for using these options at the appropriate times.īut the game just feels so slow, overall, that these flashy ways of driving just end up feeling obtrusive to an already frustrating game. For a racing game, there’s no sense of speed or gravity, it feels floaty even when your car is on the ground. And while I could forgive a lot of the shortcomings I’m about to get into if the core gameplay was fun, all of these issues affect the core gameplay way too much for me to overlook.įirst is just the general game feel. Which sounds harsh, but overall, Cars just felt un-fun to play for a myriad of reasons. So even when I tried to go into Cars 3: Driven to Win with an open mind, I wasn’t exactly surprised when I found an uneven, unpolished, mediocre game. Movie tie-in games have a long lived reputation more often than not, they’re mediocre or bad.

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