Crashy Laps Review (PlayStation 5)

For this Crashy Laps Review, we play an arcade racing game, with all the tracks visible on the screen, designed for playing in single-player and Local Multiplayer modes. Based on classic games, there are isometric and top-down selectable camera views.

Crashy Laps Review Pros:

• Nice graphics.
• 348.1MB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Racing gameplay.
• Two views to use – isometric and top-down.
• Engine sound – combustion or electric.
• Three difficulties – Novice, professional, and expert.
• Isometric view of the track, meaning you can see the whole track at all times.
• A top-down view is a more traditional arcade view.
• Sound option outputting – music and fx, music only, fx only, and engine only.
• Four tunes of day to drive in – morning, midday, evening, and night.
• Four race events to choose from – championship (4 races/4 cars/4 laps), time trial, quick race, and Grand Prix.
• Five race locations – Candy Lands, Alpine Bridge, Silver Dunes, Frosty Way, and Around the World.
• Each location has four race tracks.
• You have to unlock the racing locations by earning certain cups in the championship.
• Unlock race tracks by placing in the time trial.
• Every track and location shows what you have to do in order to unlock it.
• Online leaderboards.
• Customize your car before an event and put a 3-character name or initials in.
• Vibration can be set to – off, all, and collisions only.
• You can zoom in on the track from within the pause menu.
• You get reset onto the course if you crash too hard.
• A little speedo lets you know if your speed is too fast and your grip will be bad when your speedo goes red.
• Arcade presentation.
• You can change the view and zoom in on the race pause menu.
• The controls are simple and easy to learn with Accelerate being on the shoulder and face buttons as is the brake so you have some choice.
• Nice looking locations and the track design is good.

Crashy Laps Review Cons:

• Cannot rebind controls.
• Doesn’t explain things like the fact you cannot play championship mode until you have done a time trial.
• On the menus if you leave it too long then a credit pop-up shows.
• The controls are loose and not that responsive.
• Resetting onto the track is cool but it doesn’t kick in when you spin out and are going the wrong way.
• You don’t get much visual feedback on your racing.
• Not only is a time trial the first thing you need to do in order to do the fun stuff but you have to do the time trial on all the tracks in a location to get that unlock.
• Each track in time trial only shows if you did it before and your best time, not how many laps you have done. (this is important for unlocks)
• The music sounds very generic and repetitive.
• You don’t get told if unlocks happen in both track and locations and events.
• No zoom-in function for the top-down view.
• You cannot always see the environmental hazards.
• Only the one-car model.
• Has limited replay value.
• The difficulty of the AI just increases how much cheese and cheap moves they use.

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Crashy Laps:

Official website.

Developer: JanduSoft

Publisher: JanduSoft

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