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- From sophisticated F1 cars to exotic Japanese imports, American muscle to off road 4x4’s, the world of video driving games has never been better.
Ask 100 people which games console is king of the road when it comes to the best for driving based games and the split will be pretty close between the Xbox 360 and the PS3.
We take a look at what these colossus giants have to offer when it comes to 4 wheels and although not as sophisticated as the big two we also take a look at what the Nintendo Wii has to throw into the ring.
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Wii gamers may know the MySims series and if so will likely find the soundscape of this game quite familiar, but they haven’t seen those cute little figures in karts armed to the teeth with cartoon weapons until now. MySims Racing offers the quick race and multiplayer (but no online play) options most Wii owners will expect and put to regular use, but don’t overlook the story mode! It has all the originality and depth of a Super Mario plot, but that didn’t stop Nintendo’s classic franchise from being ridiculously fun and entertaining, and the same goes for MySims.
Like the later games in the Super Mario series, the MySims Racing story mode offers you a map which restricts your movement until you complete the challenges facing you at each of the points of interest. There are multiple game modes so each event is different from the others around it and it makes for a progression that is both fun and unique for a racing game, even a Wii kart racer. There are forks in the road and you can choose to skip some events in favor of others, or master all of them to earn medals which can then be used to purchase upgrades.
The gameplay itself is standard fare for a kart racer, with standard types of controls and standard-ish weapons and power-ups that isn’t to say it’s at all boring, there’s just nothing new. For Mario Kart fans it will be something akin to playing all new tracks, with all new vehicles and characters, but not much more than that. Except — there is some vehicle customization, which is a little surprising for a kart racer. Don’t get too excited, it’s a very simplistic system but you can upgrade engines, steering and the like. There is also a fair selection of purely ornamental upgrades you can buy to pimp your ride.
Keeping with the theme, courses don’t offer anything really new and in some ways are less challenging than the courses veteran kart racers may be used to, but they’re still well designed and fun to race on, with a fair variety in style from track to track. Weapons also seem to be less powerful than usual for a kart racer, but that can be a good thing because it puts focus back on the racing itself. There are a bunch of other minor differences MySims Racer has in comparison with previous kart racing games but none of them can really be said to markedly improve or detract from the gameplay, or take the genre to the next level for that matter.
On a system with such a pronounced drought of racing titles, especially ones that are half-way decent or better, MySims Racing rises to the top like the creme de la creme. It isn’t really. Truly, it’s astounding that the bar is set so low, but things being what they are a pretty good racing game can get high praise. MySims Racing is not groundbreaking or even “great” in any objective sense but it’s a really fun racer. It also happens to be one of the best racing games available for the Wii console.
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