This overview was initially written in 2021. It is reproduced right here with no edits.

PROS:

• Wonderful management system for optimum handheld consolation
• Track designs are diversified and never overly lengthy
• Appealing audio-visuals
• An motion sport with depth that ought to enchantment to greater than racing followers
• Online PVP (Player versus Player) races

CONS:

• Even on the increased ranges, the sense of pace is probably not sufficient for some
• No reverse possibility
• Lots to unlock – even when shedding all the time – takes away a number of the incentive to win
• Store provides and membership pricing choices can actually add up if you need greater than the free sport

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Based on a widespread toy line courting again to the Nineteen Eighties, the Micro Machines sequence of video video games have been delighting console and pc players since 1991. While there have been some variations in its visible know-how and general presentation through the years, these video games are at their coronary heart approachable multiplayer top-down racing video games that happen on uncommon tracks like kitchen tables and dwelling rooms suffering from equally foolish obstacles.

One uncommon characteristic of a few of these Micro Machines video games was providing the choice for a simplified management scheme for native multiplayer, the place simply two buttons, steer left and proper, had been offered to every of the gamers, and acceleration was computerized. Surprisingly, this management technique nonetheless proved nice enjoyable and was an ideal technique to cram extra native gamers along with fewer accessible controllers. Whether by design or accident, Race Team Rivals takes a number of the finest components of Micro Machines, together with its toy-car really feel and top-down racing perspective, and makes its alternate management scheme its solely management scheme.

As said, management in Race Team Rivals is easy. Acceleration is computerized. To steer, merely tapping left or proper is all that’s wanted. While this enter technique sounds overly easy, it’s really a intelligent technique to maximize handheld consolation and get across the limitations of a touchscreen, whereas leveraging its benefits. In quick, you received’t must be fumbling along with your iPhone or iPad to get essentially the most out of this racing sport, though a reverse possibility would have nonetheless been a useful addition.

Before every race, you select certainly one of your accessible vehicles to compete with. You then see a abstract of your competitors and the prize pool. When racing, you’ll be able to run over playing cards to realize additional rewards. If you’re the victor in a race, you too can win extra extras like automotive upgrades.

After the completion of every race, win or lose, you’re provided a loot field containing playing cards with numerous rewards. For occasion, for those who get three playing cards, one would possibly provide you with 50 gems, one would possibly provide you with 100 cash, and the final would possibly provide you with a new automotive to race. With cash and vehicles, you’ll be able to construct up your racing headquarters with new buildings and different prolonged options. Over time, your base of operations can develop into fairly sprawling and superior.

While the sport’s sense of pace just isn’t the perfect, even on the increased ranges, utilizing the vertical orientation of your iPhone or iPad gives a nice overhead view of the winding tracks. Even although the shortage of really heart-pumping pace would possibly appear to be an enormous unfavorable for a racing sport, it does mean you can optimize how you’re taking corners and jockey for place in opposition to the opposite racers. Thanks to this shift away from pure pace, and, regardless of nonetheless being an motion sport, Race Team Rivals does really feel prefer it provides higher strategic depth than different video games of this kind.

The audio-visuals get the job accomplished. The artwork fashion is clear and constant, the musical rating non-irritating for essentially the most half, and the race sounds acceptable. Overall, this can be a large step up from another racing video games that blend types or don’t give consideration to how a lot repetition there could be when vehicles are racing round a monitor.

The on-line PvP (Player versus Player) races, improve system, and base constructing idea, the place it’s good to keep a profitable enterprise operation, add additional depth and curiosity to the already compelling core racing sport mechanics. Even after a number of races, the considered getting that subsequent improve or with the ability to additional develop your headquarters will maintain you coming again for extra, though the impression of those rewards is lessened a bit as a result of even for those who constantly lose, you continue to get loads of bonuses. 

There’s quite a bit to love about Race Team Rivals, even for these players who should not usually into different racing video games the place being the quickest appears to trump all the things else. Despite being a really crowded style, Race Team Rivals proves there’s nonetheless loads of room for brand spanking new releases on this class when their implementation is so nicely thought out like it’s right here.

Score: 5 (out of 5)