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It’s a little bit heavy on the marketing side, and personally I felt there were more weapons around than was strictly necessary. There’s plenty of power-ups littered around, all branded with the Nerf logo. The cars are floaty and slippery just like those older titles, so it’ll take a while to get used to it if you’ve been playing more realistic racing games, but once you do, you’ll be sliding and shunting around the track to your heart’s content.

The good thing is that the racing is just as much fun as it always was, with the classic top-down view of the Mega Drive games being favoured as opposed to the “following camera” type view in v3 and v4. Meaning that if you finish fourth or below, he just says “you finished…” and it sounds like he saw something shiny and it interrupted his train of thought. They didn’t even get him to record any position numbers past “third”. Also Brian Blessed’s involvement is limited to about 30 seconds worth of speech samples. There’s some annoying emotes which certain players like to spam, and no way to mute them this is irritating enough to make me stop playing on occasion. These are more like Hot Wheels in size, and whilst it’s not a deal breaker, it’s something you notice every now and then and it breaks the immersion when you do. Micro Machines are meant to be micro, hence the name. The scale of things is wrong, with unusually small skateboards and tiny slices of toast juxtapositioned against cars that are clearly too large. There are a few little niggles that persist like a bad rash throughout. It’s like someone’s baked you a nice cake, but instead of icing it, they covered it in chicken gravy. I’d rather have more racing tracks personally. The problem is, whilst these battle modes are a nice fun distraction, they’re not as fun as the racing, so you’re unlikely to spend that much time playing them. These seem to have had the most care and attention put into them, with some nice looking arenas, albeit a few with a lot of asset re-use, but that’s always been the case with Micro Machines anyway.

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That 16-bit classic also had a full career mode, this title has to option to play online or offline against bots, although it does have a few modes in addition to the racing such as capture the flag and battle arenas. The original Micro Machines on the Mega Drive had 26. There are 25 tracks, only ten of which are racing tracks. It all feels a little bit sparse, as if it wasn’t quite finished before publishing it. But this is a game with decades of history, and as such, I expected much more than was delivered. If it was the first title in the series, I would probably be saying that this isn’t a bad start. It had the retro charm of the Micro Machines games that we loved from the olden days, it had extra Hasbro licences like Nerf and Hungry Hungry Hippos added, it had new game modes it even had Brian Blessed! There’s no way that this could go wrong, right? Sadly, that’s not entirely the case.įirst off, I should say that this isn’t a terrible game by any sense of the word. If you watched our video preview of the title a few weeks ago, you’ll know that here at the GameGrin offices, we were all eagerly awaiting this game.

I’ve put it off for as long as possible, but it’s high time I admitted something I didn’t want to admit: the resurrection of Micro Machines is nowhere near as brilliant as I expected. This is not a timely publication from me. Reviews // 22nd Aug 2017 - 5 years ago // By Gary “Dominoid” Sheppard Micro Machines World Series Reviewįirst of all, I should apologise to my editor, the readers of GameGrin, and to all three of the people who actually look forward to my reviews.