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Super Toy Cars
Super Toy Cars is a tabletop arcade combat racing game featuring fast and cool looking cars, impressive tracks made of everyday objects and a bunch of power-ups that will let you destroy your opposition. Collect all cars and upgrades to keep up with competition while you progress in career mode or have a quick race either against AI opponents or ag...
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- Released
- February 26, 2014
- Developer
- Eclipse Games
- Publisher
- Eclipse Games
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Super Toy Cars Reviews
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You could argue that the gameplay is a little bit generic and samey, but that’s probably to be expected with a game of this type. Despite the few niggles, Super Toy Cars is a pretty solid and enjoyable game that will certainly appeal to fans of the genre, although others might want to wait for the current £7.99 price point to drop before they make the plunge.
Super Toy Cars is a racing game from Eclipse Games in which you race toy cars around various tabletop environments. The cute premise feels like a combination of
However, what good will Super Toy Cars builds with these standout features is lost in the overall package due to the poor performance of the game. While performance issues in handheld mode are less prevalent, I found the performance in docked mode to be quite frustrating. At times I found the framerate inconsistency to be so jarring it would cause me to have difficulty controlling the car and sometimes even crash.
Super Toys Cars is limited in its offerings. Unlike the PC version, which has been on Steam for a few months, there is no online component or a track creator. There’s not a big sense of creativity in the track design or even the game design, it’s all run of the mill kart racer, which is disappointing as the Xbox One has the most limited range of games in this particular genre.
Super Toy Cars is a seemingly rushed and unfinished port of a barely average game. It never set the world alight on PC or Wii U thanks to some pretty dire physics and a lack of interesting locations and this Xbox One version is identical in design to those versions – warts and all - but doesn't contain the track editor or online play. It also features a number of relatively basic technical issues that sap the fun out of things. Beach Buggy Racing would be the main competition on Xbox One and even though that game is a little bit of a by-the-numbers affair, it's still massively preferable to th...