Cars 3: Driven to Win Review (PlayStation 4)

Start your engines and gear up for the ultimate racing experience in Cars 3: Driven to Win inspired by Disney•Pixar’s film, Cars 3.

Cars 3: Driven to Win Review Pros:

• Nice bright cartoony graphics.
• 6.74GB Download size. 
• Works on Playstation 5 and gets a nice little boost to keep it smooth. 
• Opening tutorial with optional pop ups.
• Platinum trophy.
• Auto saves regularly.
• Racing gameplay.
• Six events-Race, Battle race, Stunts, Takedown, Best lap and master level races.
• Three difficulties-Easy, Medium and hard.
• Twenty three cars to unlock and use. All the cars handle and drive the same so it’s purely cosmetic. 
• Customise options are for each car – horn sound, Light effect colours, Turbo boost colour and if you want auto drift on or off.
• Earn boost in game by doing stunts, Drifting or picking up the canisters, and driving over the turbo pads.
• Turbo pads- Depending on the design depends on what you have to do to drain boost out of it, There are three types- Drifting, 2 wheeled and driving backwards.
• Easy controls to learn even for new players. 
• Skill check- Big wall of accomplishments you must do that builds your overall rank bar. Doing so will unlock new events, Cars, Items etc. You are filling a big bar up overall and completing skill checks fills in the bar. 
• Colourful humorous commentary.
• It retains the atmosphere and fun of the films. 
• Opening fly over of the track.
• Speed start bonus if you time it right. 
• After a race you can jump into any other event or restart current race and of course quit back to the main menu. 
• Characters talk and react to each other in races.
• Decent loading times and they are slightly improved on the PlayStation 5. 
• In the zone- Get a full boost bar and double tap boost to momentarily go invincible and get a boost.
• Nice tracks taken from all the Cars films.
• Tow objects to use them as weapons.
• Clean clear UI and menu.
• Unlock a free roam area where it has challenges, Collectibles and leaderboards.
• Earn 1 to 3 stars on each track. 
• No bronze trophies! I don’t K ow why that would be cool? Maybe it’s because silver and gold are worth more but who knows. 
• Perfect for kids of all ages. 
• The cutscenes are all in game and look just like the films and saying that the whole game does. 
• A surprising twist is not only ground based tricks like two wheels etc it also has air tricks again in the right stick. Get air from jumps but you also have a dedicated jump button to get higher. 
• It’s a game kids will love but us older gamers will enjoy for it’s presentation, easy trophies and sense of fun. 
• Race tray ms will have many optional shortcuts or routes to take. 
• On screen prompts to show what the strips need. 
• The game keeps the humour and characters emotions and styles in play at all times. 
• Local drop in and out multiplayer with support of upto four total players, and a handful of modes. 
• I like the general flow of unlocks for new cars and events, having the skill check awards come up as you earn them gives a dopemine hit and they act a bit like in game achievements. 
• You can grab barrels from the sides of the truck and drop them over the track or have them behind you to take a hit or even throw them. 
• 23 total characters to unlock. 
• The playground is an open sandbox where you can do what you want, there is event you drive upto to initiate, multiplayer modes, and hidden caps to find. You still earn skill checks in this mode. 

Cars 3: Driven to Win Review Cons:

• Rubber band AI.
• No online multiplayer it’s all local only. 
• There is little replay value for trophy hunters or anyone likes a game until the finish it. 
• The playground is the best part for multiplayer but it requires a lot of play time and work to get it unlocked so don’t buy the game thinking the fun part is available straight away because it isn’t. 
• Slowdown in busy areas but it is better on Playstation 5. 
• The game is bad at you messing up a corner or getting hit where it takes ages to reset you, driving the wrong way for one second will trigger this. 
• Mcqueen is a dick, He is constantly putting people down and boosting his ego and is just… well a dick. This is more for a buyer of games for younger gamers PSA. 
• Drifting has minimal control and doing tight corners can be tricky. 
• Bashing racers slows you down.
• Collecting all skill checks is tedious and makes you play the game in a way that may not be comfortable or fun.
• Cannot do any customising between races or even change your racer, you have to go all the way back to the main menu. 
• Three laps feels too long on some of longer tracks. 
• Only one view for driving. Behind the car.
• One controller layout and you cannot remap the Co tells. 
• No real story integration, it’s just a tale of getting Mcqueen up there in a new racing style. 
• Air drifts are clumsy.
• Music begins to all sound the same.
• Some cheap AI tactics.
• Aiming and driving backwards is really tricky. 
• As a game aimed at kids it doesn’t have any dedicated accessibility options like auto accelerate, or help with steering. If you are buying for younger gamers just bear this in mind as the auto drift is not enough. 

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Developer: Avalanche Software 

Publisher: Warner Brothers 

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