pretty good?" Furthermore, the courses have all the color pop of classic Sonic levels, which just feels weird to type. The number one comment that people in the office had after finding out what game I was playing was a reserved, "that actually looks. The limited animation on each of the characters is fluid and clean, and the models themselves are really rather detailed. It's not going to wow anyone beyond the whole, "wait, this is what a Crazy Frog game looks like?!" comment, but it's certainly a solid looking game.
What's really weird about the whole mess is that visually, the game is pretty damn impressive. It is, like the rest of the game, something that you start up and give to a three year old to keep them happy for a few minutes.īuy. Your reward? A tally of how far you went before the sweet, sweet embrace of video game death saves you from this nigh-eternal suffering. There is no more perfect an example of what Crazy Frog Arcade Racer than the Chase Mode, where you continually race around a track - not picking up any weapons or power-ups or anything, just racing endlessly - over and over until the drones placed all over the course hit you enough to whittle your health down to nothing. which, I suppose, is why they called it a mini-game. Although, tapping all four face buttons in various one-, two- and three-button combinations to a bunch of Crazy Frog tunes or guiding a pinball around a course with billiards-style bumpers to hit a bunch of targets barely qualifies as a game. Or mini-games! Yes there are two delightfully simple options for those that just can't seem to rid themselves of their Crazy Frog addiction.
Well, unless you absolutely crave the frighteningly well done CG videos for two of the Crazy Frog "songs."ĭon't.
#CRAZY FROG RACER 2 PS3 TRIAL#
A whopping 12 tracks, a dozen racers and the "option" of running through the former with the latter in Time Trial and Single Race Modes is really all that greets here. In actuality, Crazy Frog Arcade Racer (also known as Crazy Frog Racer 2, thanks title screen!) is exactly what you think it is: a racer that piggybacks off the baffling success (at least abroad) of one of the most annoying mash-ups of eurobeat backgrounds and, well, something that sounds like a guy doing an impression of an F1 car sped up a bit too much. Sure, the cynics among you might think that having to play a game that can be finished in a little over two hours (that's having played and hit the top score in every mode), all while being force-fed the same amphibian malady that drove the whole of Europe into the darkest depths of insanity has claimed the mind of yet another, but you just don't get it, man. Moments ago, I broke through the haze of what most would call "reality" or "sanity." In this brave new world, up is down, left is purple and 2 + 2 = umbrella.