Matchbox Driving Adventures Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published September 26, 2024 · Updated September 26, 2024

Matchbox Driving Adventures Review, Ready to get behind the wheel for the thrill of a lifetime? Then gear up for Matchbox™ Driving Adventures! The Chief of the Matchbox Adventure Squad heard you’re the best driver around, and now they need your help taking on epic missions.

Matchbox Driving Adventures Review Pros:

Nice bright colourful graphics.
2.79GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Racing gameplay.
Officially licensed.
Two ways to play – adventure, and competition.
Controller options – auto accelerate, and lane assist, can be turned on and off with button combinations in the game.
World map level select.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
When unlocking a new location on the map you have to drive there, once you’ve done it you can choose to skip it.
Chief is the narrator and quest-giver, it’s all fully voiced.
Full 3D game World.
You have a mini map and it shows objectives.
Missions can vary from collecting items to picking up and delivering products, etc.
The progress bar fills in as you play.
Each level shows your best completion time and overall percentage out of 100.
You can replay levels.
Just the one driving view but it’s far behind one so it’s fine.
You can look behind when driving.
Drifting will build boost fuel as does getting air time and sliding alongside cars.
Each location has a handful of events all along the same theme.
Play in any order as you start to unlock multiple missions at a time.
The garage lets you change the color of the vehicles.
When on a mission you get arrows on the floor and corner to help with navigation.
Different location types like beach, snow, etc.
Competition mode has single-location events or championships, with three AI difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard.
Twelve total vehicles each with unique stats.
Unlock new vehicles by collecting the awards in the story mode.
Spend points on new paint jobs for vehicles.
Fourteen locations in the game.

Matchbox Driving Adventures Review Cons:

The handling is terrible, from general steering to the braking and acceleration.
Missions are bland.
Driving between places is not fun or serves any purpose.
The music is monotonous and repetitive.
You cannot remap the controls.
No online modes or multiplayer.
In competition mode, you can only use unlocked cars and sprays from the single-player.
The whole thing feels a bit lifeless and flat.

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