Soon after booting up the game and bearing witness to the high-school-PowerPoint menus and nightmarish character models, it’s clear that this game was made with about as much care as Garfield himself would apply to anything that isn’t lasagna. But there has to be somebody out there with a very specific pining for a very specific breed of half-baked, franchise-milking PS2-era kart racer played through the filter of modern technology, and I just want them to know they might be interested in this.įor everyone but that one guy though, Furious Racing has almost nothing to offer that isn’t better somewhere else. Is that a reason to fork out $40 for a violently average game? Not at all. Garfield Kart – Furious Racing feels a lot like the old cartoon tie-in games of the early 3D console generations, and I kinda dig that about it. Now, I know that all sounds harsh, but in a strange twist that I’m not even sure is legal in the field of video game review writing – I actually have a counterpoint to my own criticism of the game.
This is a kart racer that not only does nothing inventive to try and carve out a space for itself within the market, but it barely manages to get the fundamentals right. Garfield Kart, on the other hand, does not. What makes a good kart racer? Is it exciting track design that’s fun to master? Accessible yet tight driving controls? Is it a varied and interesting selection of power-ups? There’s a reason that the genre has long been dominated by the likes of Mario Kart (although we were blessed this year with the excellent Team Sonic Racing ), it has all of that and more. Whether it needed to happen or not though, it has, so the real question becomes – is this latest entry into what can now technically be called a franchise any good? The short answer is no.Īctually, that’s the long answer as well, but let me preface that with another question. And yes, Garfield Kart – Furious Racing is not the first time the lasagna-loving tabby and his friends have found themselves behind the wheel.
Of all the things that people are nostalgic for in 2019 – I didn’t think Garfield Kart would be one of them.
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