One of RC Cars' best aspects is simply how intuitively it plays and handles. Though we'd like to assume the online play works properly, the fact that nobody showed up online in the week following the game's release, coupled with a number of mode omissions made to RC Cars (which further separate it from its PS2 counterpart), like the highly entertaining "stunt" and "dark horse" race modes, really limits the game's appeal.ĭespite the lack of available play modes, RC Cars is still pretty fun from a gameplay standpoint. Unfortunately, during our weeklong efforts to find some online competition in RC Cars, no one ever popped up to race against. Presumably, the online mode involves a lobby that you can create or join-if started by another player. Additionally, there's a multiplayer mode with two-player split-screen for a single computer and an online offering for up to six racers. The ghost race mode pits you up against ghost versions of yourself in previous races. Furthermore, the game features a basic quick race mode where you can play a single race with any of the available cars or tracks. Each track also has a required buy-in fee, so you'll have to keep your funds at a certain level to be able to progress through the mode. Winning races earns you cash prizes, which you can use to upgrade your car's engine, speed boost, and tires. Championship is essentially a progressive mode through every track in the game. Cars start out fairly simplistic, but you can upgrade them by playing the game's championship mode. RC Cars features three different RC car types and 10 total tracks. RC Cars for the PC is actually very much the same game as Creat Studios' other RC racing title, Smash Cars for the PS2. Whatever Creat's reasoning may be for the changes made in bringing RC Cars to the PC, the unfortunate truth is that much of what made its original RC racing game so much fun has sadly been lost in translation.
Despite the name change and a switch from previous publisher Metro3D to Whiptail Interactive, RC Cars is an almost exact duplicate of Smash Cars, though with a number of the PS2 game's previous modes and features stripped-out in favor of a more streamlined, PC-centric interface and an online multiplayer mode. Now, a few months after Smash Cars' release, Creat has another RC racing game to its name in RC Cars for the PC. It was a pleasant surprise, featuring some simple yet effective racing mechanics, a nice selection of game modes, pretty impressive graphics, and an always-pleasing budget price tag.
Earlier this year, developer Creat Studios released an RC racing game for the PlayStation 2 called Smash Cars.
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