6/8/2023 0 Comments Cars 2 the video game reviewEvery car, from the beginner classes like Ginetta Juniors to the LMP1 monsters of Le Mans, looks and drives like its real-life counterpart, complete with damage modelling and tyre deformities. With nearly two hundred cars and more than sixty locations, each with several track layouts, that gives you some idea of how much work has gone into the game. That realism is carried into the visual side of things, with every car and location mapped down to the finest detail. This is the level of detail on offer here, and it’s way more than anything else I’ve seen in a racing game. ![]() When the track gets wet, those levels will change dramatically, and you’ll have to follow the correct line in order to carve out a dry lane for maximum grip in treacherous conditions. This means that grip levels will constantly shift throughout the course of a race weekend. This will change from lap to lap, thanks to the new physics model that Slightly Mad Studios has implemented, with tyre and track surfaces evolving and changing with the temperature and forces put through them. You can’t simply throw a GT1 car around corners, they’ll bounce and slide like a real 600bhp monster would. Cars don’t violently spin as you simply try to correct a minor slide this time they’re much more responsive and the turning is smoother, although don’t think that this means it’s easy. This is helped by the improved controller handling this time around, with almost all of the kinks ironed out for this second instalment. Races are always fraught with tension as you fight for position, or simply fight to keep your car on the road, and even more so when the weather takes a turn for the worst. Cars squirm under braking going into the first corner, a tight left-hander, and everything kicks off. From twelfth to sixth in a matter of seconds, narrowly avoiding a shower of carbon fibre as two cars tangle up ahead. Out go the lights and the cars spin their wheels on the wet asphalt, my prototype Audi R8 managing to find a little extra grip as I find myself catapulted up the ranks. The red lights come on, engine notes rising above the sound of the torrential downpour one, two, three… The weather is unusually stormy as the sleek LMP900 cars line up on the grid. The game is slightly let down by only allowing two players locally – four would have made this a gaming night essential – and the lack of modes online, but there is still masses of fun to be had here on your own.The stage is Laguna Seca, in a dried up lake bed in central California. ![]() Career mode is an absolute blast and I will never tire of smashing up opponents – or myself when making a bad judgement on one of the obstacles. There is a lot of imagination and heart gone into the making of Super Toy Cars 2 on Xbox One that oozes out of almost every corner. Other than ones related to career mode there is also an achievement for completing a multiplayer race either locally or online, and a tricky sounding achievement – at least to plan and set up – for finishing a race whilst being destroyed. They still unlocked, but perhaps not when they should have. Some however can be glitchy I unlocked achievements for winning Destruction Derby events and a first victory without winning either in question and the achievement for unlocking all cups only unlocked when I booted up the game the day after unlocking all the cups. In total, Super Toy Cars comes with 16 achievements to unlock, and most shouldn’t take long to achieve if you play through the career mode. If you manage to do this you are rewarded with a short slow-motion moment as their car flips over – the same happens if your car gets totalled too and there is the same weird, sadistic enjoyment in seeing it happen to your car as well as your opponents. By using the power-ups in game – or simply ploughing straight into your opponents – you can cause damage to their cars and, ultimately, destroy them. Whilst racing will form the backbone of many cups, there are actually seven different events in total, which take into account the destructibility of these toy cars. The points you accumulate will unlock additional cups, vehicles and paintjobs as you progress through the career mode, and prize money can be used in the garage to purchase upgrades for existing cars, or new cars altogether. ![]() Each cup contains four events – not just standard races – with prize money and points awarded for each one. ![]() There are 12 cups in total with many restricted to only one or two car classes. Career mode is where you will spend most of your time in Super Toy Cars 2.
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