![]() ![]() Resident Evil 4 (PS5) - A True Masterpiece Made Even Better Hogwarts Legacy: All Field Guide Pages Locations PS5 Game Boost: All Major PS4 Game Improvements PS4 to PS5: All Games with Confirmed Free Upgrades New PS5, PS4 Games This Week (13th March to 19th March) It’s not terribly intrusive, but it does come across as a little tacky. The brand's board games line some of the tracks (one Battle arena takes place on a Hungry Hungry Hippos board) and the pickups are all Nerf products: a hammer, a machine gun, and a bomb that drops behind you. What’s new is a heavy-handed coating of other Hasbro properties. They tread similar territory to what’s come before: the kitchen table, garden, workshop, and pool table are all present and correct. It can make the first few races a bit of a chore, especially when the AI drivers offer a stiff challenge to top it off.Įventually you’ll get used to the handling, and memorising the tracks won’t be far behind that, as there are only ten. The handling for each car varies a little, but generally you’ll be sliding around all over the place until you figure it out. The racing fares better than the combat, although the controls are oddly slippery. Outside of Battle mode, you have the more traditional Race and Elimination events. The maps are possibly a bit too large and complex for their own good, too there always seems to be one or two cars driving around that don't seem to have a clue where the objective is. It has potential for some haphazard fun but the action falls into complete chaos almost instantly, and while each vehicle has its own strengths and weaknesses, it doesn’t appear to make a huge amount of difference. That’s not a problem in itself, but unfortunately, Battle mode doesn’t quite work. This, again, recalls a certain team-based shooter, right down to some very familiar presentation. The twelve vehicles on offer each have their own set of weapons and abilities for use in Battle mode, as well as a unique ultimate power that charges up as you play. Ranging from free-for-all death matches to king of the hill, these battles take place on purpose-built arenas that follow the same themes as the race tracks. These problems most commonly crop up in World Series’ big new addition: Battle mode. The general performance of the game isn’t great, however, struggling to hold up 30 frames-per-second quite frequently. Matches rarely take more than a few seconds to find (empty slots are filled with AI racers), and lag was never really a problem in our experience. The online really is the meat of the game, then, and thankfully, it seems to work fairly well. It doesn’t count towards your level, and there don’t appear to even be any leaderboards for race times. What’s strange is that playing offline doesn’t earn you anything at all, other than maybe some Trophies. Competing online will earn you experience points, and each time you level up, you earn a loot box, each filled with a gaggle of cosmetic items like vehicle skins and other inconsequential fluff. Of all the games to influence a new Micro Machines title, Overwatch would’ve been the last on our list, but there are some surprising similarities throughout the design, from the UI to – gulp – loot boxes. Instead of a robust single player element to faff about with, the big focus here is online. Of course, Micro Machines is celebrated for its multiplayer scuffles, but to obliterate single player altogether when it was already present in the last game of this ilk seems a bit drastic. Micro Machines: World Series has next to no single player content whatsoever, pinning all its hopes on multiplayer. Having laid a solid groundwork with the aforementioned Toybox Turbos, Codemasters decided to make a big leap away from it. The bad news is that, well, it’s rather disappointing. The good news is that we now have a brand new console entry in the series. More recently, a Micro Machines mobile game popped up, and again, was fairly well received. ![]() A few years ago we had Toybox Turbos on PlayStation 3, which was a Micro Machines game in all but name, and a fairly good one at that. It feels like Codemasters has been testing the water for a potential return of its much loved matchbox racing franchise. ![]()
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