What’s less enjoyable is the way the game is constantly trying to level the odds. Each has at least one shortcut that will make life easier for you if you can master it, and they’re generally pleasing enough to race along even though the wide roads and turns were obviously designed for a phone’s tilt controls. The racers are pretty forgettable, then, but the tracks fare a little better.
Beach Bro’s daft wee beach ball thing is nowhere near as devastating as Ogg-Oog’s voodoo thingy or Benny’s carrot gun, meaning when you eventually unlock everyone you’ll only realistically have one or two characters worth playing as. More disappointingly, they’re not exactly equal either. Don’t worry, I cleared that joke with a bunch of people who all said it was fine These special moves are pretty powerful, but like a United Colours Of Benneton ad you only get one in each race. One advantage it does have over Mario Kart though – and I promise that’s not a phrase you’ll hear again for the rest of this review – is that each character has their own special move unique to them. It’s hardly that other one… you know, the Nintendo one, I can’t remember its name. I’ve put about 20 hours into the game and the only reason I can remember the racers’ names is because I’m staring at them right now. Kart games are often sold on the strength of their characters, and since Beach Buggy Racing isn’t a licenced product it obviously suffers here.
The frame rate is a bit iffy though: it’s 60fps but stutters a lot Let’s be realistic: it’s obviously no Phantom Pain, but its tropical tracks are colourful enough to get the job done. Given its mobile roots you’d imagine it may have been plagued with horrible low-poly graphics but Beach Buggy Racing doesn’t actually look terrible. You can count the number of kart racing games on new-gen consoles on one mitten, and even then you’re pretty much limited to Wii U, what with Mario Kart 8 and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.īeach Buggy Racing by Vector Unit is an attempt to right this wrong, even though it technically doesn’t count: you see, while it’s now available on Xbox One and PS4, it was originally a mobile game.
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