

The player with the bomb is then handicapped with a speed reduction as they try and plant it in the base without getting blown to pieces. The bomb is randomly spawned and isn’t visible on the map until someone picks it up. To do this you have to find a hidden bomb in the level. Disrupter on the other hand is more fascinating, as it pits players on a two vs two team battle to see who can destroy the opposition’s base first. Arena is ’s version of Mario Kart‘s battle mode.
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There are also two other game types, Arena and Disruptor, which are specifically made for multiplayer and only appear in the free play mode. This is brilliant since playing Cars 2 in single player isn’t a match compared to the amount of joy that seems to come from playing this game with a few buddies. It’s a good way to dodge ‘blue shell’ style weapons that home in on the first place person.Ī great feature of the C.H.R.O.M.E Mission Career and all the events in it is that it can be played in multiplayer with up to three additional players. If you save up all four blocks of your turbo metre you can activate a super boost allowing the car to be invincible while boosting for a limited time.

There are mini-guns, rocket launchers, homing mini cars, mines and oil spills. Survival on the other hand has the player surrounded in a shield, and has to keep the shield charged for three laps by picking up batteries that appear on the track, or by blowing up other cars with weapons.Īs with countless other kart style racers, the weapons are typical for genre. Attack requires the player to keep blow up lemons (enemy cars) to add seconds to the clock, trying to last as long as possible. Hunter mode is just as the title says, it puts the player in an arena venue and you have a time limit to blast enemy cars, meeting required target kills for first, second or third position. Race and Battle Race are the two standard modes, with battle being the one that permits you to pick up weapons to attack opposition racers. Once you’ve played Mission Career enough to unlock everything, an assortment of entertaining modes will be available. Tricks can also be performed off jumps, allowing you to flip or spin in the air. Flicking left or right allows the car to bump into opposition to push them away, and down allows you to drive backwards for some style points.
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Another is using tricks, which are enabled by pressing different directions on the right stick, for example, pressing up allows you to drive on two wheels, something that K.I.T.T did a lot in the Knight Rider TV series. Camera views cannot be changed, so if you usually play racing games in a first person view then you are out of luck here.ĭrifts are one of the mechanics that are used to build up boost metre. You can drift to take corners better, and also jump to hop over barriers and obstacles. These help the player if there is one they need to use, for example, to defend themself from attacks. Sometimes you can pick up boxes that tell you what weapon you will acquire. You can also collect power-ups on the track in little question mark boxes that spin around. Thankfully the controls are simple to grasp, with acceleration and brake on trigger buttons. Really the separate tutorials could have been squished into one tutorial race rather than being split over five or six scenarios that teach you a particular feature. Starting out, you are put into an awkwardly-produced training mode. Missions are split across six groups, which contain multiple game types in them. There is a sufficient amount of game types, but the problem is that you can’t play most of them unless you make your way through the game’s main the C.H.R.O.M.E Mission Career. This doesn’t really transfer into the game, there’s barely a story, so instead the plot is used as a building block to create a Mario Kart inspired racing game. The film revolves around a spy plotline with C.H.R.O.M.E (Command Headquarters for Recon Operations & Motorized Espionage) investigating a devious plot to sabotage oil in cars during the races, so that Professor Zundapp can keep his oil monopoly.
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The story is loosely related to the film and uses the film’s general plotline, which involves Lightning McQueen travelling around the world to compete in the newly-announced racing series World Grand Prix. Disney’s Cars 2 is from the team (Avalanche Software) that developed the surprisingly pleasant and fun Toy Story 3 video game released last year.
