Hats provide item-specific bonuses, with each increasing the effect of one specific pickup. Garfield Kart has karts, spoilers, and hats. Mario Kart has karts, gliders, and wheels. But it can also be dropped behind you to create a hazard, providing tactical flexibility in the middle of a race. At first glance, the Spring appears to be functionally identical to Mario Kart‘s feather, sending your racer into the air to dodge obstacles and reach new areas. But some items can be used in multiple ways. 1. Multi-Use Itemsįurious Racing has two buttons to deploy items, which it for some reason calls “bonuses.” Like in Mario Kart, items such as pies (the equivalent of green shells) can be fired forward or backward. A number of things about the experience are disturbing: the image of Garfield racing his human owner Jon in a sports car, the fact that none of the characters’ mouths or fingers animate, the presence of “Harry,” who appears to be a kind of Wa-garfield.īut most unsettling of all, in my hour and change spent with the game I realized that Garfield Kart: Furious Racing actually contained a number of good design elements that I haven’t seen in a kart racing game before.

As you might expect, the game is a third-rate Mario Kart clone peopled by Garfield and a number of his friends, and featuring items and levels vaguely referencing Garfield’s long history. If you’re looking for a Mario Kart style fix, you will find yourself sorely disappointed by what is on offer here.Last night, in a move I can only describe as “fueled by a deep and all-encompassing self loathing,” I streamed Garfield Kart: Furious Racing. The incentive being only to unlock the aforementioned spoilers, hats and achievements/trophies. With single races, multiplayer, grand prix and time trials, there is plenty to do here but it’s such a chore.

The AI seems to have no limit on what they can use and are great shots, making for a really frustrating experience. If all of that wasn’t bad enough though, the higher the setting the wilder the game gets with its powerups. This is at its worst when playing it on higher settings, 150cc is quite hazardous to your mental health! For those used to a more competent style of karting, Garfield Kart Furious Racing will take a little getting used too. At others, mainly when boosting, it’s so tight you’ll be hitting walls and driving off tracks way too much. At times far too loose making it feel like you’re floating, particularly when going around tight corners. The number one thing to get right in a game like this is the handling of the karts and Garfield Kart Furious Racing has flaws. What’s gameplay actually like? Well, it’s a karting game and not a very good one. Whereas the hats give your offensive and defensive items a bit more oomph.ġ6 tracks to race around sounds like a lot except great level design isn’t exactly a strong point of the game.Īll of that is just window dressing though. It’s not quite Forza Motorsport but it is something.

The former might boost your speed but affect your steering and so on and so forth. Then we have the unlockable spoilers and hats that you can add to your car and character. A way of finding just what works best for you as there are small differences in cars. Each has their own corresponding car but you can swap characters and cars around should you so desire. There are eight racers to choose from that include Garfield regulars such as Jon, Odie, Nermal and of course, the lazy lead himself. If you are duped into picking it up what you will find instead is a basic remastering of the 2013 game and nothing more.

The description (Garfield, the famous lasagna-loving cat, is back) and the price tag suggests what we have here is a sequel to the much-maligned 2013 Garfield Karting. The horribly titled Garfield Kart Furious Racing seems to be pretending to be a brand new Garfield karting game.

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