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You can try out individual races and battles – plus a third elimination mode – but there are no championships or events to play through, and so no reason beyond practice to keep coming back for more. Problem two is the risible lack of single-player content. Micro Machines isn’t ready for the eSports limelight yet. What other game sees tiny cars duke it out on a Hungry Hippos game board or take shortcuts with the flag through a pool table pocket? All in all, though, the action’s a little flimsy and forgettable. The battlegrounds do more to keep things entertaining. The different craft seem well-balanced, with each supporting different styles of play. Missiles are launched, turrets deployed and helicopters sent to harass your opponents. Each vehicle has its own feel and its own set of three capabilities, some offensive, some defensive, some healing. Instead, Codemasters seems to have spent a lot of its resources on a battle mode, complete with deathmatch, control point, capture the flag and bomb delivery game styles. What is, then? Well, problem one is that the basic racing isn’t necessarily the focus here. There’s nothing special about the music, and the repetitive voice samples soon get annoying, but poor presentation isn’t one of this game’s major faults.

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All toy and radio-control racers benefit from this miniature perspective to some extent, but World Series really makes it feel part of the fun.Įven the visuals are perfectly solid, with a nice balance between cartoon style and realistic texture and some decent effects. Vehicles get electrocuted, burnt, sawn apart or crushed, while tyres smear sauce and icing across the track surface and a hungry dog gazes up from below. Others have you racing through a greenhouse and around an icy pond, around a tool-strewn workshop or across pool and air-hockey tables. Some have you speeding around messy kitchen tables, dodging a whisk and the mess of a massive bake-off or the residue of a breakfast fry-up. The top-down view and relative steering take some getting used to – and was the handling really this skittish first time around? – but there’s a decent sense of rough and tumble to the racing, while the Nerf-branded weapons add a little extra aggression to the mix. There’s nothing actually that much wrong with the basic racing, which sees tiny toy monster trucks, police cars, hovercraft, dumper trucks, tanks and more facing off on a series of household tracks running through kitchens, greenhouses and games rooms. I wouldn’t call it a total write-off, but it’s not the return fans might have wished for.īuy Micro Machines World Series from Amazon UK It’s a game that trades on half-remembered pleasures of twenty-five odd years ago, with its eight-bit character portraits and the mocked-up covers of vintage gaming magazines you’ll spot around its courses, but hasn’t got the substance to bring them back.

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Available on Xbox One, PS4 (version tested), PCĬodemasters’ revival of its nineties console classic wins big on short-term nostalgia, but not so much on its gameplay or long-term appeal.

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