It’s all easy at first, but as you progress many of the challenges become quite hard to complete, and the whole system is so convoluted that you know for a FACT a child would not know how to navigate the menus to unlock more modes. Within these game types you can crash into an opponent to get a lug nut or jump in the air and do a trick to get a lug nut. There’s an individual race mode, a grand prix, trick mode, ghost race, demolition mode, item mode, team race (local multiplayer) and also master challenges. To collect these special nuts you have to complete certain feats of skill and strength in the various game modes. But since you’re an old and beat up Lightning McQueen you have to prove your skills to him by collecting 136 lug nuts. The Cars 3 (dropping the Driven To Win from now on) game has a simple story: you’re Lightning McQueen and you go on a TV Show, where some dude calls you out and says you have to race him. Cars 3: Driven to Win says, “nu uh!” and decides to be one of the most frustrating games I’ve played this year. Who is the target demographic for this game? The obvious answer is ‘THE KIDS, ZACH, THE KIDS.” When you make a game based off a children’s IP you’d expect the game to be friendly towards that audience. Underneath that simple guise, however, is a game that is riddled with so many strange and baffling design choices that I don’t even think a child could enjoy it. Cars 3: Driven to Win exists for this same reason, because kids get to hang out with their favorite buds from the Cars franchise. And now, every year, we get more tie in games designed to be something that a child can play on the side with their new favorite movie or toys that’s all good fun. I will admit that I have played a fair share of movie tie-ins - hell, the first game I ever beat was 102 Dalmatians on the PlayStation 1. There used to be games released with movies all the time when I was younger, and as I was growing up I soon learned that these games weren’t as good as the others I was playing. Game movie tie-ins have had a notoriously rough and repugnant past.
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