Cars 2

Cars 2 The Game Review

Many games based on movies are doomed to mediocrity because their gameplay is designed to rigidly fit the movie's story rather than being a compliment to it. This is the case with the DS version of Cars 2, and it's a bit baffling because its console big brothers have an awesome design. In Cars 2, Lightning McQueen travels around the globe to race in the World Grand Prix, while some agents from Command Headquarters for Recon Operations & Motorized Espionage (C.H.R.O.M.E) are trying to get to the bottom of an evil plot. You play as a number of different characters, including Lightning, Mater, Holly, and Finn in two basic types of gameplay – racing and stealth. Visually, Cars 2 is about what you would expect for a DS game, though the characters are animated well and look exactly like lower resolution versions of their big-screen counterparts. Another bonus is that the game features voiceover and most of it is from the actors who did the voices in the film. With the exception of Lightning and Finn McMissile, pretty much all of the other characters have their true voices, even though they suffer from some distortion due to compression. The racing gameplay is pretty solid, though the drifting controls seem to over compensate for turns and send you off the other side of the track.