Touring Karts (2019) - Every PC F1 Game
3Touring Karts by Ivanovich Games, 2019.
Ivanovich Games suffered by making their previous games, MiniDrivers and MiniRiders just a bit too close to real life F1 and MotoGP respectively. Neither are available to purchase currently, probably as a result.
Instead, moving away from web comic licenses, they made this, Touring Karts (nice play on words there!). Whilst it still retains cars with similar colour schemes to F1, they're much more styled as go-karts now, as are all the other vehicles, which resemble real-life road and racing cars. Though I stuck with the F1 cars here, obviously!
This game does support VR though, which makes things even more chaotic! Oh yes, it's chaotic. A game where a giant monkey throws things at you, water turns to lava, giant chickens race around flattening people, cars fire ice blocks ("winter is coming!") and rockets at each other, parts of the track get blown up... and way, way more... I even found the huge monkey riding the back of a Star Wars AT-AT towards me at one point, it's hilarious, in places! The dry-witted, doesn't-sound-interested voiceover guy is amusing too. There is music, but I turned it off here.
1. Race Start (Monza): 0:00 Monza is at night, I throw a chicken, a giant pizza slice chucks olives at me and an energy drink helps me to fly.
2. Spray Effects (Silverstone): 0:21 Silverstone is wet in the game and has a huge banked turn (that sometimes collapses into flat road).
3. Tunnel & View (Monaco): 0:35 Monaco is a lot more colourful than in MiniDrivers. It also has a sea monster tentacle and some turbo boost pads.
4. Wet Track (Spa-Francorchamps): 0:46 There's no rain here, but giant car of Belgian chocolate throws pieces at me, an energy drink gives me a speed boost, then any water around the track becomes lava, as I hit a turbo boost pad and go automatically fast and transparent.
5. Pitstop (Interlagos): 0:60 Interlagos is raining, but pitstops (unlike MiniDrivers) do nothing at all.
6. Huge Crash (Montreal): 1:09 Crashes just slow you down a bit, so I collect two rocket launchers to blast the opposition, before the giant monkey takes me out with a Tetris tetromino block. It's one of those sort of games!
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