Review: All-Star Fruit Racing (PlayStation 4)

Go bananas for a jaw-dropping, lightning-fast kart racer for all ages and abilities! All-Star Fruit Racing propels players into vibrant worlds filled with incredible action: drift through looping bends, soar over monumental jumps and defy gravity itself around tubular tracks in an explosively colorful racer bursting with championships, modes, and awe-inspiring sights!

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 4.34GB Download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Kart racer gameplay.
• Optional tutorial split into sections for drifting, Attacking and driving.
• Uses a drift mechanic similar to Sonic racing transformed. You press L2 as you turn to build up your drift, Has multiple levels and gives a speed boost. Also comes with a handy icon showing your progress of the drift and if you are close to over drifting and blowing up.
• Juice- You have four containers assigned to each face button. Each one is different fruit and requires that fruit to fill it up. You can attach/detach the different fruit to create combinations as seen in the center of the juice. This adds many combos and powerups you can use.
• Over 20 drivers to unlock.
• Big bright race locations taking in many places like beaches, Snow to muddy race tracks. It all looks really good and every track has multiple routes to find.
• Garage- You can customize and color many parts of your ride. Change parts like- Body, wheels, rims, aerial and horn.
• Unlock new customization parts as you do the championships.
• Offline- Custom, CXareer, fast championship, time attack, and training.
• Online- Fast join or create a lobby.
• Very kid friendly.
• Friend invite system.
• 11 championships in career mode.
• Very happy summery game.
• Some races can ditch the fruit system and go with straight random pickups.
• Five regions- Coco sunshine, Winter kingdom, Papaya grove, Chung nook and Banana Bay.
• Pistons- 3 Of them and dictate the over game speed. (Think CC in Mario Kart games)
• A rather catchy soundtrack.
• Looks like it was pulled straight from the races in Wreck it Ralph movie.
• Easy to get into.
• Solid driving mechanics.
• Challenging.

Cons:

• Lacks any real character, No personality shown from the characters you play.
• Cannot shoot behind apart from the one or two powerups designed for this.
• Rubberband AI.
• Last lap brutality as the AI gets perfect drops.
• Controls have a slight learning curve.
• Only one control layout.
• Camera control is jarring. You press a direction on the d-pad to change it.
• Some races out stay there welcome with more laps than are needed.
• No local play.