Mini motor racing x switch review upgrade#

The game’s Career mode makes up the bulk of the gameplay in Mini Motor Racing X you’ll race your way through championships, unlocking more courses along the way, in addition to new vehicles and upgrades. This often means you’re stuck with no weapons at your disposal if you happen to use them too soon. Weapons take the form of wrenches, rockets and more, and instead of picking them up as you drive around the course, they’re handed out each time you cross the starting line. It takes a bit of getting used to, and even then it can be a tad too fiddly for our liking. They have an incredibly floaty feel to them, and so you need to be careful when taking corners so you don’t oversteer and end up facing the opposite direction.

The way the vehicles themselves handle is a bit iffy, at least at first. Keeping to the ‘mini’ theme, these tracks are generally quite short, and so often compensate for this by featuring four or five laps. There are an abundance of tracks to choose from, with some located on tropical beach resorts, and others in African grasslands, complete with giraffes and rhinos. Taking the approach of a more accessible, simplistic experience, Mini Motor Racing X feels like a bit of a cross between Micro Machines and Mario Kart, featuring blocky, toy-like vehicles alongside abilities like nitro boost and various weaponry. There’s plenty to sink your teeth into on the surface, but dig a bit deeper and there’s actually very little on offer here that hasn’t been done before. Mini Motor Racing X is a fine arcade racer with smooth gameplay and decent graphics, but it just doesn’t do anything to sell itself. With so many options available, from realistic sims like GRID Autosport to, well, Mario Kart, there’s pretty much something for everyone. Minor issues keep it from being perfect, sure, but this one is an easy one to give two thumbs up.It takes an awful lot for a racing game to stand out from the crowd these days.

It’s a well polished racer with fantastic visuals, lots of varied tracks and cars, multiple control options to please all comers and oozes style. It’s easy to let Mini Motor Racing get its hooks into you, since it comes with quality from so many places at once. It would’ve been nice if they raced a little more cleanly. If you can get out ahead of them, sometimes they’ll get tangled beyond being able to catch up. Expect lots of jams as other cars try to plow through you. They’ll race their lines no matter who they need to drive though, often to their own detriment. But I don’t mean in that “wow they’re really good and difficult to beat” way where they race perfectly. My complaints about the game are minor, but bear mentioning. You even get a few Fruit Ninja related ones! They’re all very short so it won’t take long to remember and get used to them all. This helps keep it fresh even with the large number of tracks. Sometimes you’ll race it backwards, or with different weather effects or different times of day. There are a ton of tracks in the game and you’ll encounter each of them numerous times, albeit switched up. I easily found the auto-acceleration and virtual wheel the best, but you’re never going to catch me complaining about options. And all those varieties can be swapped to be left-hand friendly. And it’s your choice if you want auto-acceleration or not. Virtual wheel, slider bar, or buttons can be used to steer your racer. Never have I seen so many choices of controls in a racing game. If you’ve ever been stymied by a title’s weird or unchangeable control scheme, then you’re going to want to grab the designers at The Binary Mill and just cover them in big sloppy kisses.

You can also use that money to unlock new cars. It’s a simple system, since you’ll only focus on acceleration, nitro, handling and top speed.

Mini motor racing x switch review upgrade#

Online multiplayer isn’t included at launch, but is apparently “on its way.” In career mode you’ll be able to battle for cup wins, where you’ll earn money to upgrade different aspects of the different cars that you can choose from. The game has the usual modes like Quick Race and Career. Since the driving isn’t overly realistic in any way, it all fits together perfectly. The tracks are bright and beautiful and the cars look like they leapt out of a kid sketch book. Everything about the game just oozes style. The following statement cannot be overemphasized: the visuals are fantastic.