Welcome to our review of Little Racer, a new small racing arcade game aimed at co-op play!
Play with your kids… or parents! Little Racer is a dynamic racing game and a great adventure harking back to your childhood. Enjoy various tracks, avoid obstacles and speed for the win. Take the wheel, choose a kart and start the wild ride!
Play with your kids… or parents! Simple controls allow you to get your kid and grandpa together in one exciting race! Use only two buttons to control the vehicle: one to go forward, the other to change the track. Watch out for the obstacles blocking your way! Avoid them, or you’ll go off the road… just for a moment! Wait, did this yeti move?!
Unique art style right from your childhood! Inspired by toys. Choose one of many colorful tracks – race through the sky, desert or even lava! Play the campaign mode to unlock tracks for the party mode as well as new cars. Compete with AI or your friends – as many as four people can play at one time! Climb aboard your vehicle and become the master of the track!
Little Racer shines in the coop mode and even that is not saying a lot. With the small number of race tracks, sooner or later, you will be getting tired of always playing the same levels and that is when the game will lose its time to shine.
In all honesty, I am complaining about this game because I think it is overpriced in my humble opinion. It’s around double what I would pay for a game like this.
On the gameplay side, I drove off road around every few corners, drove into the obstacles on the road pretty much the same. But not just me, all the NPCs as well and the same for my friends. Most part while playing in coop, this is where the unexpectedness of who will end up first is coming into it.
It did kind of disappoint me in single-player mode. If I was careful enough not to go out of bounds or crash needlessly, I almost always had first place in the first few levels. I failed to really keep playing it much longer than that. Co-op was too fun in comparison. Which is a good thing. But I often thought “is this it?”.
Graphically, this is your everyday single-screen arcade racer and the graphics are fun and fresh. Nothing exceptional, but these single-screen games are never on the higher end spectrum of graphics. Nothing wrong with that, just saying you should not expect something stunning.
In conclusion, Little Racer is fun, but mostly due to its wacky nature in co-op mode. As a single-player game, it did fail to really impress me. Might be a little overpriced for its content?
