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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