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The game reeks of not being balanced properly, from the A.I behaviour to the times and scores you sometimes have to beat. A truly exceptional showcase in not bothering to add variables in their performance, the A.I in Super Toy Cars Offroad will always take the most straightforward option, to the point where if you’re in their way during a race? They won’t attempt to navigate past you, they’ll just bash into your car until you’re gone or they swerve off. You’ll always seem to slow down, although this doesn’t seem to bother the A.I at all. It’s tough to gauge how any of the vehicles are going to perform on truly off-road shortcuts, even with the stat meter the game provides when showing you how each vehicle performs. Lancia are known for their rallying capabilities, even today, 40-odd years later, but their tribute in Super Toy Cars Offroad is one of the worst-performing cars off-road? Really? In four seasons between 1983-1986, it had one first-place finish, two second-place finishes, and one third-place finish in the WRC Manufacturer’s results. This may sound like nitpicking, but let me put it like this: The game has a starting car that is quite obviously based on the Lancia Rally 037, the last RWD vehicle to win the World Rally Championship. It’s an obvious - albeit stupid - mechanic, betraying the idea that some of these cars, despite their off-road nature in real life, don’t have the same viability in the game. Every track hosts shortcuts that allow for quicker times, but some cars simply won’t be able to drive through them quickly due to their lack of viability off-road. All of the events in-game specify which vehicles you’re allowed to use, but this goes right down to the track designs themselves.

It doesn’t feel like I’m blasting my Matchbox die-cast racecars with dodgy wheels through my bedroom and dirt, it feels like I’m zoomed into one specific part of the map on Fallout: New Vegas.Īre there strategic implementations regarding which vehicle you can and should use? Yes, sometimes. You’ve got sandpits and gardens, frozen lakes and dirt-bike tracks, but none of them relate to the nostalgia Eclipse Games themselves want to extract from the player. The game hosts varied locales you can race on, but almost none of them evoke a Micro Machines-esque funhouse romp. As time goes on, that may be the case, but in due time. Due to the off-road nature of the game however, you’ll simply just start braking instead sometimes, throwing you for a loop as to whether the game works as intended.

Like all kart racers, the focus is on winding tracks to take advantage of drift boosts that’ll have you speeding out of corners to overtake with elegance. The driving in Super Toy Cars Offroad has an admittedly high skill ceiling, with it coming down to both precise driving and a lack of transparency. Whether it’s quad bikes with a focus on speed and precision, or figuratively large monster trucks that rely on brawns over brains, there is a decent mix here. You’ve got a wide array of characters to unlock, and a wide range of vehicles to try out, varying in size and categories. There’s no plot, just a ton of action figures ranging from non-descript Barbie dolls to buff dudes with bad articulation all looking for a win in the races.

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A shared detriment of the series is the focus on quantity over quality which, if you’ve played the games before, can be a worry going into the newest title. Cutting their teeth with the twin-stick shooter Tachyon Project, Eclipse Games has found more invigorating success in this table top-racing series, despite several voices decrying the game's lack of technical prowess. This is the third release in the Super Toy Cars series, and the latest product from Spanish developers Eclipse Games.

Still, Super Toy Cars Offroad can be another attempt, if nothing else. I mean, sure, you could probably go onto a forum and say “hey, you know what, I genuinely think Garfield Kart - Furious Racing has some great design choices”, and what are you gonna get? A mouthful of gasps, hands showing you the door, and Nermal stans telling you not to listen to them. Reviews // 20th Feb 2022 - 6 months ago // By Samiee 'Gutterpunk' Tee Super Toy Cars Offroad ReviewĪ good kart racer that isn’t developed by Nintendo is looking less and less likely every day.

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