![]() Everything feels a little off, either too floaty or totally filled with lead and nowhere in between. The physics on these objects are unreal, as are the physics in general. When it doesn’t, it can make the external camera shake very quickly. Driving into these items will certainly slow you down and obscure your vision – or just snag you and stop your vehicle all together, forcing you to reset. Dice, Not-LEGO-Brick-No-Sir construction bricks, giant corn cobs, toys, cassette tapes and more can be found strewn across some of the tracks (and can even be brought onto the track using a magnet power-up). One of the only unique aspects of this game is its use of objects on the track. That’s despite Super Toy Cars 2 trying desperately to derail my progress with crappy physics, a camera that wanted to give me a fit and other odd bugs. Compared to many other indie titles in this genre, this is incredibly poor. It took me five hours to finish all of the single player content. The ability to make your car vastly overpowered after playing three tournaments makes a mockery of the difficulty levels. Well, Super Toy Cars 2 throws money at you like it’s the US Federal Reserve trying to prop up the stock market during the COVID-19 crisis. “But isn’t that just wasting your Cash?” you might ask. Max out your vehicle stats with upgrades before entering and you’ll be finishing ten seconds ahead of the nearest car. Head into any of the first ten competitions with a vanilla vehicle and you’ll likely have a chance of placing. Or, at least, they might if the game had any difficulty to it. The Stars and Cash work are a simplistic loop to keep you coming back. This cash can be spent to buy new cars and pimp the ones you own with progressively more expensive upgrades. As you win or place in these tournaments, you accumulate Stars which will unlock further competitions to compete in as well as cash. Certain campaign competitions can’t be entered unless you’ve got a relevant vehicle while others are barred by progression. Each of the sixteen Super Toy Cars in the game are allocated a class from Whacky Cars (like a van that looks very much like a VW Splitscreen) to Open Wheelers (that look like olde worlde F1 cars) and everything in between.They all have their own top speed, strength, acceleration, handling and boost stats too. Initially, it’s the type of car you’re driving. The twelve Career tournaments each have entry requirements. If you’re a Karting game fan, none of these modes will be anything they you’ve experienced before and none of them feature any unique aspects. Also in the mix are Elimination races, where the person in last place is eliminated every fifteen seconds, Destruction races that test you to destroy consecutive Dummy cars to extend your race time for as long as possible and Destruction Derby’s which have you driving into each other. For the purists, there are Clean Race’s which disable all the pick-up’s for pure racing as well as Time Trials which have you putting in your best times on an empty track. There’s classic races which test the player to finish a number of laps before a field of opponents with the full use of pick up weaponry and Death Races which are the same but if you get killed, your race is over. There’s a decent variety of events on offer – but none of which offer any originality. The core single player content of Super Toy Cars 2 is a series of twelve competitions, each of which contain four events. As a premise, it lacks imagination and this game does little to use it any better than its predecessor. ![]() ![]() Here, it’s tiny toy cars that are racing around colourful tracks made from real world items. It’s the classic Mario Kart formula that has been disseminated and mildly tweaked for every other type of vehicle over the years. Power-up’s and weapons to collect then use on the other racers. 1 button drifting which gives you a little speed boost when it’s over. No gear changes, just accelerate and break. It follows all of the staples of the genre. Super Toy Cars 2 is, for all intents and purposes, a kart racing game. What’s more, this new game brings new issues with it. Super Toy Cars 2 definitely looks nicer than the original but that’s where the improvements end. With a sequel, I fully expected Eclipse Games to capitalise on that potential, add more variety, tidy up the physics glitches so prevalent in the original and improve the visuals. While the original Super Toy Cars failed to set the kart racing genre on fire, it did show potential. Physics glitches, confusing engine noises and a lack of content means Super Toy Cars 2 is a disappointing sequel.
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