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  • GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience Review
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    GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience Review

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    Gameloft's GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience comes packed with a sense of familiarity. As I sat down to play my first race, I caught myself ignoring most of the tips and guides. I hardly read anything while navigating the menus because everything was laid out in the way I expected. When the game was walking me through my first car purchase, I breezed through it because it felt like I had done it all before.In fact, I had done it all before. In sports, coaches usually operate under the idea of "if it works, we'll keep doing it until it fails." With GT Racing 2, Gameloft has shown commitment to that plan, and everything works the way it's expected. Right from the start, if you've played any other recent racer, such as Real Racing 3, you'll know what to expect. In some cases, such extreme familiarity can lead to a game's demise. GT Racing 2 is polished and fun enough to overcome this obstacle."Despite the constant feeling of familiarity, GT Racing 2 doesn't assume you've played any other mobile racer. It does a fine job walking you through the start without becoming overbearing or boring for those experienced with the genre. I never found myself growing impatient with the tutorial or grumbling about not being able to skip it. I only wanted to keep racing, and I was in luck.Obviously, racing is a key component to GT Racing 2, and on that end, it excels. The numerous control schemes all work well, though the default tilt control feels like the way the game is meant to be played. There's braking and steering assistance, which can be disabled at the start of every race. The heads-up display is standard fare, complete with a speedometer, lap and position counters, and a mini-map. The one unique feature is the guide line. As you drive, you'll notice a green line on the road. This is Gameloft's idea path for players to take, thus optimizing their performance.
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    Garfield Kart Review

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    Ever since Super Mario Kart came on the scene back in 1992, there have been dozens of imitators. Some have come from established properties, such as Crash Bandicoot or Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, while others have been crudely-made, cheap cash-ins which often feature licensed properties (such as M&M's Kart Racing).You'd be forgiven for thinking that Garfield Kart would be among the latter; we certainly did. Much to our pleasant surprise, however, this title is actually an extremely competent entry into the kart-racing sub-genre. Don't get us wrong, it's not likely to light the world on fire, and Nintendo has nothing to fear as they prepare for the upcoming eighth entry in the series that started it all, but Garfield Kart is a surprisingly solid and sturdy racing game."Based more specifically on The Garfield Show than the fat cat's newspaper or other incarnations, Garfield Kart features a cast of eight characters, including Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermal, Arlene, Liz, Squeak, and the toon-original Harry. Each looks just like their cartoon self, but at the outset, you can only use Garfield or Jon, while Liz, Odie, and so on get unlocked as you continue playing.Locations seem to come from the cartoon (Full disclosure: While we've seen some episodes of the toon, we've not seen them all), and while they provide a nice degree of variety—more than seen in some racing games—it's admittedly not as diverse as what you're likely to find in Nintendo or SEGA's offerings.
  • CSR Classics Walkthrough
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    CSR Classics is a drag racing game created by NaturalMotion Games. In it, you'll go around town and race numerous opponents, complete challenges for in-game currency, and purchase and restore classic cars. Gamezebo's quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game."
  • CSR Classics Review
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    CSR Classics Review

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    Kids these days, they just don't appreciate the classics. Well, CSR Classics is going to teach those whippersnappers about the oldies but goodies - and in a slightly more suspect lesson, something about racing in the streets as well. It's all in good fun though, as this free-to-play follow-up to the original CSR Racing challenges you to both drive fast and fix up classic cars. Now get off my lawn!Born from the same companies that brought you its predecessor (namely Boss Alien and NaturalMotion Games), CSR Classics sticks pretty close to the same formula while adding an additional focus on restoring once-beautiful older rides to their former glory. That's because you can acquire cars in either "Loved" or "Unloved" form, with the latter option costing considerably less but also giving you a vehicle that needs some work in pretty much every area: body, engine, tires, you name it."Fortunately you begin play with enough cash to snag a Tier 1 car, providing you with your introduction to the apparently hot world of underground street racing between classic car aficionados. The guys and gals in the crews you have to defeat even talk like they're still living in a previous decade, and they scold you if you show up in a beater.Of course that's basically what you're doing until you master the gameplay and have a few wins under your belt. Since these are drag races, you don't have to worry about pesky things like steering or braking. Going fast is strictly a matter of timing and reflexes, as every vehicle has optimal launch and shift points, and tapping the gas or the paddle shifter at the perfect moment is the key to victory. There's also nitrous for a little extra boost, though I don't think that came standard in mid-20th Century cars. (Note to the GZ editors: please have one of our interns check on that!)
  • Anki Drive Preview
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    Anki Drive Preview

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    Imagine this: a mobile racing game that uses a physical track and physical cars that you can place right down on the floor of your living room, and control everything that's going on in front of you through an app on your iPhone. Oh yeah, and the cars can shoot weapons and wipe each other off the tracks in real life as well, and the machines themselves even get smarter the more that you play. It sounds like something you'd see in a movie about what the future of video games could one day hold, doesn't it?Well guess what? It turns out that such an imaginative game actually exists. It's called Anki Drive, and it's coming out next week to change everything you thought you knew about mobile games. I recently had a chance to speak with Mark Palatucci, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Anki, and Hanns Tappeiner, Co-Founder and President at Anki, to find out just how their innovative studio was able to bring the technical world of robotics into the mobile games space for a truly unique consumer experience.The building blocks for Anki Drive were first put in place over six years ago, when a few PhD students at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute began drafting up ways that robotics technologies could be taken out of the labs and brought into people's lives as consumer products. But of course, the first biggest stumbling block was the cost: most robotics equipment was traditionally far too expensive to sell to the average consumer. But as the overall hardware of the technology world began to get cheaper over the years, the idea of a "mobile game in the real world" that was powered by robotics became much more conceivable. However, Anki would still need to deal with the challenge of creating a robotics product that could work 100% of the time in people's homes with uncontrolled conditions, and outside of the contained lab environment.
  • Nitro Nation Online Preview
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    It's hard to get into a conversation about mobile racing games in 2013 without someone mentioning Creative Mobile's Drag Racing, the quintessential racing experience on a touchscreen device over the last several years. But as mobile game developers continue to up the ante with their games by using more realistic looking graphics and higher-powered gameplay, many fans are interested to see where Creative Mobile will go next with their inevitable follow-up game.Well today we're bringing you the answer in Nitro Nation Online, a game that takes everything you know and love about Drag Racing and really pushes down that gas pedal to deliver on the graphics and the gameplay. I recently had a chance to chat with Creative Mobile CEO Vladimir Funtikov, and talk about what kinds of things Drag Racing fans can expect to find in Nitro Nation Online, as well as how the development team used everything they've learned to create what Funtikov calls an "ultimate version of Drag Racing," and what it all means for like-minded racing games in the future."After speaking one-on-one with Funtikov, essentially what it all boiled down to was three main components built into the core of the new game that are aimed to set the experience far and above what was initially possible in the original Drag Racing. The first new component to be introduced in Nitro Nation Online is a completely reworked and revamped physics engine, which is both adapted to the mobile platform and used to exude an incredibly realistic feeling with regards to how the cars are expected to handle and control in the game.
  • Toca Cars Review
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    Toca Cars Review

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    Toca Boca has become a byword for quality in children's apps. Their games encourage exploration and experimentation, yet come without any hidden in-app purchases or other hidden nasties. Recently they've boldly started branching out into apps for slightly older kids, starting with Toca Builders and now moving to the racetrack with Toca Cars.Like all their other games, it's incredibly simple to pick up and play. You choose a racer and then start steering them around a virtual environment simply by touching the screen in the direction you want to move. As you drive and skid around, you'll encounter houses, traffic lights, trees, and other bits of scenery you can bulldoze over and push around. Wreak too much havoc and there's a simple button press to reset everything again.But you're not limited to just knocking things over: many of the things you'll encounter are interactive. Most obvious are various ramps that allow your little racer to pull off different kinds of spins and jumps. There are puddles of paint to drive through and color the world with tire tracks. Best of all are the other characters, an irate robot that pushes you away, a shy bird that flees and hides, and an enthusiastic dog who follows you about.
  • Racing Rivals Review
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    Racing Rivals Review

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    Apple's App Store is no stranger to drag racing games, perhaps owing to the very simplicity of their design, and thus you could be forgiven for approaching Racing Rivals with a heavy dose of skepticism. And yet, for the most part, it's unwarranted. Cie Games and Nitto Tire have given us a game that's as fun as it is visually appealing, and the inclusion of an enjoyable multiplayer component allows it to surge ahead of many of its rivals.