I’m sure that number will grow over time, but 12? The number of vehicles has dropped as well from 35 to 12… There is Nerf branding everywhere and the Toy Story-esque feel of the graphics make it feel like a really long Disney/Pixar commercial. In trying to make the game a fresh take on the original, it feels like Codemasters have borrowed too much and tried too hard and the result is something soulless. To be honest, that is about as far as the similarity to the original classic goes. The graphics are obviously much better and the top-down gameplay makes it feel at least a little familiar, but control is an illusion, and like catching the soap in the shower, it largely comes down to luck, not skill. 12 teeny tiny little tanks and snowplows and hovercrafts chasing after each other with Tommy Gun’s and Hammers and Explosives wreaking havoc all over a game of Hungry Hippo. Speaking of Russia, there is a really enjoyable Battle Mode. One can argue that the Multiplayer is and always has been the soul of Micro Machines, but the last I heard, we aren’t living in Soviet Russia! I want the choice! The focus seems to be on the Multiplayer aspect of the game. Some of you may know by now that I don’t play well with others, so this presents a real problem for me. I guess I’ll start with the fact that there is almost no Single Player Championship mode. I’m not sure how to quantify this feeling. I could almost taste the Kellogg’s Frosties! Sticky syrup all over the kitchen, Mountain Dew on your bedroom floor, the sound of Saturday morning cartoons coming from the TV room. So I loaded the game, and it was all there, the tiny little monster trucks and police cars (cute AF), all the tracks around what could be any youngsters house on a Saturday morning when mom and dad have locked the bedroom door and left you to make your own breakfast and entertain yourself for an hour while they “sleep in”. The rose-tinted memories of those things always end up dying in the cold dark wet alleyways of your older more cynical mind. I’m wise enough to know that you never revisit TV shows or movies or anything that changed your life when you were growing up. I know that they released a game a few years back called Tiny Turbos or Turbo Toys or something like that, which now that I’ve seen World Series, I understand was, in essence, Micro Machines. Honestly, who gives their child a new video game the day before a major exam? If we’re being honest, I was the victim.įorgive that bit of nostalgia, but it’s important to lay that backstory so you understand how excited I was when I got asked to review the latest version of Codemasters legendary title. I got a C for biology, but it wasn’t my fault. When I eventually left there, the reproductive cycle of the earthworm was the last thing on my mind, all I could think about was how awesome the game was! It was awesome! It was only when we got to the desktop challenge, where you have to race around a track drawn with chalk and dodge erasers and sharpeners on top of a school desk that the vague memory of me needing to do something important came creeping back. We spent 4 hours chasing each other’s tiny little toy cars around everything from a messy kitchen floor to a pool table. We plugged in the cartridge and suddenly it was midnight. He had just gotten the game as a gift and we thought we’d give it a quick look, after all, there would be plenty time to play it once the exams were over… I was just going to take a breather for an hour or so and then get back and hit the books… It was 1992 and I was getting ready to write a major year-end exam, and I distinctly remember going over to his place the night before writing biology. Micro Machines World Series is like trying again with an ex who lost a ton of weight after the break-up and looks fantastic, but when you get to talking, all she wants to discuss is social justice issues and yoga, and honestly, who has time for that sh**?Īnyone remember the 16-bit Sega Megadrive? A friend of mine had one and he had Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Mortal Kombat and Micro Machines something or other.
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