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This allows the player to have a tailor-made soundtrack to their frenzied romp through the courses, I will admit I am guilty of solo playing the Ska tracks featured as I tore around the diner themed level.
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But combined with this is an ability to select and deselect tracks at will, similar to the feature in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games.
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The game is packed full of an eclectic mix of tracks spanning a number of genres. The audio of the game is a real crowning delight and certainly deserves a strong positive mention. Tyre smoke flies off the track with a “blocky” appearance that is more accustomed to Mario Kart 64 than a Nintendo Switch title, there is also a nice sheen of blur placed over certain images, whether that is to add to the aesthetic or not I couldn’t tell. Where the graphics let themselves down is that the textures don’t cope well with fast-moving objects, which I’m sure you’ll agree is a bit of an issue for a racing game. A great example of this is when taking damage, early on (because I am bad at racing games) I noticed that the cars broke apart exactly as you would expect a toy car to break, no “realistic” car damage, wheels pop off, doors snap off and as anyone who has ever broken a toy car before will see, the game has certainly made an effort to recreate the “build” of a die-cast toy. You do feel like you are a tiny toy car and regardless of the environmental setting, you aren’t taken out of that experience when looking at the surrounding environments. Graphically, the game doesn’t break any records but performs as well as any other indie title you’d expect on the switch. The game includes a homing feature for some items, requiring the button to be pressed twice to activate and release said item. As well as this, there are item boxes dotted around the relevant courses that hold a number of items ranging from speed boosts to missiles. But the game would benefit from an online multiplayer setup, or the ability to use multiple switch consoles in local multiplayer if it wants to challenge the bigger titles in the genre.ĭriving around the courses it is often difficult to see the path ahead, and the map displayed on the screen is a merged spaghetti junction of lines that aren’t easy to follow, so knowing the course layout is a key part of success in this game, and clearly designed with this in mind. There was no online play option available at the time, but a local multiplayer mode is available, which the switch obviously makes easier with the Jo圜on setups. There are plenty of individual modes to work through in quick play mode, and these are unlocked from the start for players to enjoy ranging from the purist’s paradise of “clean race” all the way through to “death race” where your car’s destruction signals the end of your run. Each mode adds a little twist to classic racing as you cruise through various themed courses to achieve your goal. For example, the first cup in the muscle car category has a traditional race, time trial, destruction and death race modes. There are unlockable paint jobs and the cash generated from racing can be used to buy upgrades to your car including engine, tyre and gearbox as well as reducing the weight or improving your boost or drift abilities.Ĭareer mode has a range of races bundled into one cup, in order to give players a flavour of the variety of modes on offer.
You start the game off by purchasing one basic vehicle from a variety of classes (Whacky cars, Muscle cars, Gran Turismo, Super Cars and Open Wheelers). Super Toy Cars 2 is no exception, taking an approach similar to other racers whereby cars are unlocked with cash generated from winning races and those cars can have upgrades purchased for them. From simply being able to choose a driver, who’s stats often affected the gameplay, now comes a huge range of game modes and customisation. Racing games have evolved so much from early incarnations.
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With the most recent title in that series being the massively mediocre “World Series” in 2017, does Super Toy Cars do enough to pick up the slack? Building on ideas from the previous game in the series, this racing game immediately draws parallels with mascot kart racers and in particular the Micro Machines franchise. Super Toy Cars 2 (STC2) is the latest in the Super Toy Cars series from Spanish developers Eclipse games.
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