If you miss time your turbo, it's often impossible to catch the leader - you can race like Schumacher, but you'll finish third or fourth, with the race winner almost a full lap ahead. But if you can put up with these shortcomings, Lego Racers is actually pretty good, and the create-a-car feature makes it a unique racer.
Ever wanted to drive the Lego cars you spent hours perfecting? Each of the tracks will feature a theme from actual Lego sets you can buy off the shelves, and players are encouraged to customize their racers for maximum oddity. A fairly robust car builder engine allows you to build your vehicle piece by piece. To be released in September. Bored of Mario Kart 64? Fed up with Diddy Kong Racing? You could do a lot worse than pick up Lego Racers. It certainly won't take you long to figure this game out.
Lego Racers is simple, pure racing fun, with 25 well-designed tracks and tight control. Heck--even the control is pretty simple. Instead of having to hop to pull off a power slide, you just press the power-slide button Ri , or press both it and the brake button for a super-duper slide.
There's no limit to vehicle variety, either; build your own cars using pieces from classic Lego kits new kits open when you win each circuit. The colorful courses pack the expected allotment of shortcuts. Some track obstacles can be downright frustrating such as flying saucers that zap you backward. And the power-ups are the usual kinda thing--turbos, guided missiles, oil slicks, etc.
You can also supercharge each weapon by picking up white Lego pieces. The turbo is really the only power-up that matters, since it becomes a teleporter that warps you miles ahead once you fully charge it.
In fact, you'll spend most races tracking down just turbos and ignoring other weapons. But it's the lack of multiplayer options that really hurts Lego Racers' replay value.
The game only supports two players, and all you and a pal can do is race each other on tracks you've opened. Lego Racers is a good example of a kids' game--a real kids' game. Not one of those crap-games turned kids' game so it won't be considered crap.
So would I buy it for my own enjoyment? Would I buy it if I had a kid? It can be quite fun to play--albeit simple. Graphics are bright and colorful, racing is competitive but playful and there are loads of tracks. You can even build your very own racer with whatever parts you choose. Now that's cool stuff.
I'm not sure what the Lego folks had in mind with this title. There are total of 26 tracks. The champions of the game were some of the most popular LEGO minifigures of the time. They are:. The final boss of the game, Rocket Racer, had never officially appeared in a physical set until Minifigures Series 18 in , when he appeared as the Race Car Guy. These characters can be made to race with as well as the champions, as soon as you win the circuit.
The tracks from circuits 4 and 5 and 6 are mirrored. Rocket Racer's circuit 7 has only one track. The tracks are based of different lines of LEGO themes released at the time. For example, "Knightmare-Athon" is based of the Fright Knights theme. In this mode, you race AI opponents on one of seven circuits. Each circuit consists of four three-lap races on different tracks with the exception of circuit 7, which contains only one track.
Depending on how you place in each race, you get a certain number of points: 30 points for 1st place, 20 points for 2nd, 10 for 3rd, three for 4th, 5th is two points, and last is one point. The points from each track are added to determine the winner of the circuit.
If you do not have certain amount of points during the circuit race except for the last race 10 points for 1st race, 20 points for 2nd race, and 30 points for 3rd race then the circuit ends. If you tie with an AI opponent, you will receive the higher place.
In this mode, you race against AI opponents around a single track. You can only race on tracks you have unlocked. This mode is useful if you are having trouble with a certain track and want to practice without doing an entire circuit or if you just want to race on one track only or if you just want to explore the track.
In this mode, you race against a human opponent around a single track. You can only race on tracks from circuits you have unlocked. In the PC version, you can only use this mode if you have a gamepad for your PC connected to it. In this mode, you race against a "ghost" of Veronica Voltage and the ghost record of you after your first try. This means that neither of you can affect the other in any way. There are only 12 tracks that you need to race through and none of them are mirrored tracks and Rocket Racer Run track is out.
They are the tracks from Circuit 1 and 2 and 3. Also unique to this mode is the placement of power-ups. They are arranged differently than they are in the other modes: the most common are green and white, red only appears when there is a shortcut that can only be accessed with it, blue only appears when there is a hazard on the course that can be avoided with it, and yellow never appears.
If the player completes all of the courses for Time Races, then they receive Veronica's car set. Each track has a number of powerups in the form of bricks placed on it. There are five different colors of bricks.
Four of them red, green, blue and yellow allow the player to activate their respective power-up whilst the fifth one white increases the power of the powerup. The following table displays the properties of each brick and the affect white bricks have on it:. Almost all tracks have hazards which slow down the player and other racers. They are physical obstructions giant rolling stones, swinging axes and a falling pillar ; hazards which mimic power-ups cannon fire, falling bombs, electrical discharges, swinging boxes and ground volcanoes which make the player slip and turn, and mummy's curses ; or unique hazards a ghost which spooks the racer and a flying saucer which drags the racer backwards.
All hazards can be countered using shields or by avoiding them. Every track in the Game except the Knightmare-Athon has at least one shortcut. Shortcuts can be open e.
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