#SPEED RACER 2008 VIDEO GAME REVIEW FULL#
Once full this bar will empty itself again but storing a full boost in a little icon just next to the bar itself, this boost may be used for its intended usage of increasing your speed further or it may be used in the action of healing your cars accumulated damage, this is also visible on the game hud.Ĭar damage comes in the form of nudges, shunts, poor driving resulting in running head first into that barrier of fail, or via the games combat system of "Car-Fu". While racing you will notice a boost bar constantly filling up as you drive your chosen chariot around the long and often twisty, gravity defying tracks of this futuristic racer. The single player mode pits your selected character in the World Racing League, starting off in what is generally regarded as the rookie league, with the opening championship consisting of only 2 tracks both of which are only a couple of laps long. Each character's custom ride seems to be accurately modelled after the film's counterpart from what I have seen from trailers and screenshots, as I said I've not actually seen the film, also each characters' car varies within the four attributes set to determine the speed, handling, acceleration, and weight characteristics of the car on the track.
#SPEED RACER 2008 VIDEO GAME REVIEW MOVIE#
Now the characters and cars are fully represented as they are shown in the film including the film cast providing the voice talent for the game too which these days seems to be an obligatory part of movie contracts if a game is to be made from the film. Now the game itself takes place 1 year after the events of the movie, which I have not actually seen yet, but this apparently explains how the character of Trixie is racing in this title whereas in the movie she doesn't even have a car to race yet displays a measure of driving talent. So here I am sat in front of my TV which is currently adorned with the wailings of Sidhe Interactive and WB Games' latest movie/video game offering of Speed Racer. Reviews // 10th Nov 2008 - 13 years ago // By Neil 'Wedge' Hetherington Speed Racer: The Videogame Review