{"id":22212,"date":"2014-01-05T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=22212"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:22:12","slug":"kart-racing-in-the-true-angry-bird-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/22212-kart-racing-in-the-true-angry-bird-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kart Racing In The True Angry Bird Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rovio-angry-birds-go\"<\/a>I am a huge fan of Mario Kart, and I\u2019ve been rockin\u2019 the three-balloon death match and its iconic rainbow road levels since I was a wee lad. I decided to look for another racing title to review since I haven\u2019t done one in a while, so I thought, \u201call right, Angry Birds\u2026 Racing? This is either going to be a true disaster, or an epic stride for gaming.\u201d Well, as it turns out Angry Birds GO!<\/a> wasn\u2019t exactly the moon landing of karting games.<\/p>\n

The game starts you off with the red bird and a kart that looks like it was built in a garage made out of spare parts of broken crates that Gordon Freeman took his iconic crowbar<\/a> to. Depending on what style of race you\u2019re doing (and truthfully there\u2019s quite a few) you will want to take the correct Angry Bird, as they each have their own \u201cpower\u201d. For the pretty vanilla-flavored standard races I was doing, I decided to stick with the red Bird for now, as his power is a turbo boost. That power does a good job of knocking people out of your way.<\/p>\n

\"Who
Who needs roads? My car is powered by Flavor Flav!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coming from a Mario Kart background, truthfully I was a little disappointed in this. Sure it\u2019s a racing game\u2026 won\u2019t deny that. But the courses are more from point-to-point, like some sort of downhill race. Not to mention that there\u2019s not really any power-ups to pick up and use during the race. If those happened, this would have scored much higher and have been a really solid cute racing game. But I stuck it out anyway. I\u2019ve unlocked two new birds, which is incredibly important because birds get tired. You heard me, the birds get tired and can\u2019t race any more. A species that flaps its wings, to move anywhere, can\u2019t turn a wheel more than 10 minutes without taking a nap? \u2026 OK.<\/p>\n

\"My
My car is made of plywood. My opponent is driving a Mustang with dual exhausts. Great.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlocking more birds, however, means you can play more of the game when you sit down and play it. Generally you will exhaust all your birds and then let the game sit and let them recharge and come back in an hour or so. Which I can understand you want me to buy cash items to recharge my birds to keep playing, but that is\u2026 really annoying. Now truthfully I prefer micro transaction games to pay up front, since I am able to give the game a good test drive before I plop money down. Glad I was able to do that here.<\/p>\n

As you progress, you\u2019re going to unlock challenge races that have goals and such that you need to beat to get credit for that race. Awesome. Now when I started playing this one, I reaaaally did not feel like linking my facebook to the game, so I played as a guest. Another awesome point for gaming, letting me play without signup. But if you\u2019re going to do that, please don\u2019t give me a challenge that requires me to \u201cbeat a friends score\u201d. Stop that. That\u2019s not even a fun mechanic. Sure beating your friends is awesome. But what if all your friends are heavy gamers and you\u2019re just a casual? (And let\u2019s face it, this game is targeted at casuals). Then what, you cant beat the challenge? Ohhhhh nooooo, I see now. I can SKIP the challenge, and mark it as complete by spending PAID CURRENCY. Get real. Uninstalled.<\/p>\n

\"Anyone
Anyone else want to ride my Oven-Mitt-Bucket-Mobile? Cause I\u2019m done with it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graphics:\u00a0\"Rating-Bar4\"<\/h3>\n

Cartoony graphics that look very crisp and clean. Cars take visual damage, an effect I did not really see coming. This was solidly polished. It was obvious some time and care was taken when designing the menus and overall feel of the graphics.<\/p>\n

Gameplay:\"Rating-Bar2\"<\/h3>\n

No gas pedal and steering by tilting or arrows, well that\u2019s nice. There are some days I don\u2019t want to sit in the lunchroom here at OWC and spin my iPad around while I eat. However, it\u2019s lack of laps, power-ups, and better AI, really keep me from enjoying this title as much as I should have.<\/p>\n

Audio:\"Rating-Bar2\"<\/h3>\n

Semi-catchy music and decent sound effects are good. Not much to complain about per se, except for maybe nit picking that there should have been a few more of each sound type to create extra variance when you hear sounds from tires screeching, cars colliding etc.<\/p>\n

Innovation:\"Rating-Bar2\"<\/h3>\n

VERY basic racing game, with Angry Birds stuck on it. It\u2019s addictive I\u2019ll give it that. But really it was just boring. I really wish we could have seen more to DO in a race than tilt or push arrows. Sure each bird has an ability\u2026 but you can use it ONCE a race. And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Overall:\"Rating-Bar2\"<\/h3>\n

You should have heard me groan when I realized I didn\u2019t take screenshots of the gameplay and actually had to reinstall the game. It\u2019s a very basic racer, that\u2019s banking on the Angry Birds brand to keep it afloat. I\u2019m not sure why game developers think it\u2019s OK to make mediocre games then slap cute recognizable characters on it then go \u201cOh yeah, this is gold, ship it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a huge fan of Mario Kart, and I\u2019ve been rockin\u2019 the three-balloon death match and its iconic rainbow road levels since I was a wee lad. I decided to look for another racing title to review since I haven\u2019t done one in a while, so I thought, \u201call right, Angry Birds\u2026 Racing? 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