Micro Machines World Series will retain the manic social game play of the classic series, but will bring a new dimension to the experience with stunning HD visuals – taking you to the much-loved household environments as they’ve never been seen before. As well as bringing to you the classic game modes like Race and Elimination, Micro Machines World Series will introduce a new style of game play to the series: Battle Mode. The all-new Battle Arenas will allow you to wreak mass destruction on a miniature scale against your friends or the AI. Meanwhile, Team Play lets you work together using your vehicles’ unique skills with modes such as ‘King of the Hill’ or ‘Capture the Flag’!
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Meh.
The race courses are charming and nicely realised, but there's not much else to recommend here. It's openly a multiplayer focused game (it doesnt have a career mode or anything like that) and yet the standard racing mode is bafflingly single-player only... I don't know how many of the poor design choices here have been inherited from the original 90s Micro Machines games, but inherited or not some of the problems here are inexcusable.
I played a fair bit of the 'elimination' mode with a friend, but honestly its basically unplayable. The gimmick is you all share a camera view and if you leave the visible playing area, you're eliminated. The camera is top-down and quite painfully close to the action and it is /impossible/ to guess which way the track is going to turn in more than a second's time; combine this with the floaty unresponsive steering and it all adds up to a thoroughly joyless experience.
Also they got rid of the ice-cream truck from the original. Unforgiveable; not even the voiceovers by Brian Blessed of all people can make up for that.
I played a fair bit of the 'elimination' mode with a friend, but honestly its basically unplayable. The gimmick is you all share a camera view and if you leave the visible playing area, you're eliminated. The camera is top-down and quite painfully close to the action and it is /impossible/ to guess which way the track is going to turn in more than a second's time; combine this with the floaty unresponsive steering and it all adds up to a thoroughly joyless experience.
Also they got rid of the ice-cream truck from the original. Unforgiveable; not even the voiceovers by Brian Blessed of all people can make up for that.