Cars Race O Rama

by THQ

Product Features

• Advanced competitive AI and improved drifting provide challenging, but entertaining action, while mini-games both related to the pixar universe and otherwise, provide the fun.
• Customize your world by customizing your cars. Modify paint color, wheels & rims, different hood options, side skirts, rear bumpers and spoilers.
• Game features 15 new playable characters to the Cars franchise.
• Eight racing environments, four brand new; Radiator Springs Speedway, Santa Carburera which takes you to the beaches, Motoropolis City where you can experience street racing and Autovia which gives you off road racing in the desert.
• Experience the fun as you race against a friend in arcade mode which consists of mini games, lap races, missions and more.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002BUSK4A
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 12, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,959 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #4 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Simulation > Driving
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.com Product Description

In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, players get to race against new characters either by themselves or with a friend, through action-packed tracks to win the Race-O-Rama trophy as their own personalized Lightning McQueen. Join Lightning McQueen in Radiator Springs as he prepares his academy of student racers for the Race-O-Rama competition. Story Lightning finds out that Chick Hicks has his own set of academy student racers who don't always compete fairly. These student racers are preparing to race in the same competitions in order to propel Chick Hick's academy to the #1 spot. The races take place at various tracks from the beaches, into the cities and off to the Baja desert. Along the way, racers are upgrading their abilities and customizing their look. The finale consists of a fully modified, ultimate Lightning McQueen racing against a fully modified Chick Hicks for the Race-O-Rama trophy. Let the race begin. New Characters There are over 30 playable characters of which 15 are brand new; Doc Hudson academy of student racers, Chick Hicks academy of student racers, Motor CO Pit Crew, Not Chuck, Guido, Tater, Tater Jr., Bubba, Trophy Girl, Chick Hicks Pit Crew, Doc Hudson Pit Crew, Vin Racer along with major boss characters who are Chick Hick’s protégés; El Machismo, Candice and Stinger. New Mini-games Experience a vast world of new mini games based in the Pixar universe and elsewhere. These include: Mack Track Challenge based off of the Mattel toy, three different games based on Disney Pixar’s Cars Toons episodes (El Materdor, Mater the Greater, & Tokyo Mater), plus many new original games like Photo Op, Auto Cross, Tractor Stampede, and Transporter. A new Lightning McQueen adventure. View larger. Key Game Features New Customization Options – Customize your world by customizing your cars. Modify paint color, wheels & rims, different hood options, side skirts, rear bumpers and spoilers. New Characters - Game features 15 new playable characters to the Cars franchise. New Worlds of Racing – Experience eight racing environments, four of which are completely brand new; Radiator Springs Speedway, Santa Carburera which takes you to the beaches, Motoropolis City where you can experience street racing and Autovia which gives you off road racing in the desert. Play With a Friend – Experience the fun as you race against a friend in arcade mode which consists of mini games, lap races, missions and more. Dynamic Game Events – Experience the reaction you get based on performing stunts throughout the game from paparazzi taking your picture to the crowds going wild. Advanced Competitive AI System – Stay on top of your game as other characters employ cheat mechanisms to get you to loose the race. New and Improved Drifting – Take control as you immerse yourself in the game by employing newly designed drifting abilities throughout the various races. New Mini-Games – Experience a wide variety of mini-games both related to the pixar universe and otherwise. Screenshots: New racing worlds. View larger. Crazy new characters. View larger. Mini-game madness. View larger. Extreme customization. View larger.

Product Description

In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, players get to race against new characters through action-packed tracks to win the Race-O-Rama trophy as their own personalized Lightning McQueen. Join Lightning McQueen in Radiator Springs as he prepares his academy of student racers for the Race-O-Rama competition. Lightning finds out that Chick Hicks has his own set of academy student racers who don’t always compete fairly. These student racers are preparing to race in the same competitions in order to propel Chick Hick’s academy to the #1 spot. The races take place at various tracks from the beaches, into the cities and off to the Baja desert. Along the way, racers are upgrading their abilities and customizing their look. The finale consists of a fully modified, ultimate Lightning McQueen racing against a fully modified Chick Hicks for the Race-O-Rama trophy. Let the race begin!

Customer Reviews

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Definitely For Kids But Tolerable To Play With Them, August 2, 2010

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Greg Sword "DETfaninATL" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cars Race O Rama (Video Game)

Let me state right off that I am neither into racing games nor kids games. However, I always make it a point to review every game I play, so here is my review of 'CARS : Race-O-Rama', since I bought this game for my 4 year-old boy (who is surprisingly better at it than I ever thought he would be!) as something that he & I could play together on the PS3. Since I'm a bit of a trophy hunter, I figured I'd try and get the Platinum trophy on this just for kicks since it looked easy to do and there were only 22 trophies anyway. Well, it WAS easy. Very much so. Except for the glitch I encountered, but more on that later. Suffice it to say before I dive in here, I haven't played this game on any difficulty setting other than the easiest as, like I said, I've been playing this w/my 4-year old. Additionally, the difficulty level doesn't affect the trophies, so there you have it. As for the game itself, I'm going to try and keep things in perspective here and review this as a kid's game (IE, how is this for a kid), since I don't imagine there are going to be too many teenagers or adults who say " Yeah! This looks awesome! I'm all about this!"

THE GOOD : A pretty good bit, actually. To begin with, there's a surprising amount of variety in this game. Not only are there a number of different tracks to race on and events to complete, but there are different locales (cities, countryside, beach towns, etc.), characters you can be, customizations to said characters (paint jobs, wheels, tailfins, hoods, etc.), mini-games and different types of racing. IE, not only will you race as a car, but also as a monster truck, a demolition tow truck and the small 'guido karts'. Naturally, each of these race tracks and vehicles has their own 'feel' to them which affects the overall ease of control over your car, sometimes making it easier, sometimes more difficult (see : guido kartrs). As for making things easy, this game takes its' core audience to heart and plays to them, in that, it's pretty darn forgiving. You can be in dead last place on the final lap of a race and still have a damn good chance of winning it outright, provided there's enough of the lap left and you race well the rest of the way. I guess you could say it's 'encouraging, as anything for kids should be. And this is all for the 'story mode'. There's also an arcade mode which allows you to play different races and mini-games based on, or directly from, the story mode. Events like the guido kart racing, monster truck racing, tractor tippin', for instance. And on top of all this, whatever city you're in, you also have the ability to just drive around the city and collect lightning bolts for additional point value. All in all, it's a pretty simple, straight-forward, 'clean-fun' type of game geared directly for kids.

THE BAD: The one thing that struck me right off about this game in a negative way, was that it's not always clear exactly where you should go or what event to do next. If you don't know that by pressing the start button you can access the map and just select an event from there, you may end up driving around a city or town aimlessly looking for the next thing to do. It's not that you can't figure this out, it just doesn't seem to be as straight-forward as it maybe should be. Something else I wasn't crazy about was the difficulty involved in controlling the guido karts. Again, it's not impossible, they're just very twitchy & sensitive to control. Even on the easiest setting, it wasn't a total walk-in-the-park for a full-grown adult, so it certainly won't be easy for kids. As a matter of fact, my four year-old gave up pretty quickly on this type of racing and opted instead for some of the others, never to come back to the guido karts. Something that my four-year old found disappointing and I found surprising was the omission of one of the main characters from the film : Sally. Worse yet, they had a 'similar' character to Sally in the game, but you couldn't select her which even deepened the disappointment. Not sure what that was all about or why they elected to leave her out considering pretty much every main character in the movie is in the game and then some. One last thing that I personally found irritating is that one of the trophies is glitched and it's not an easy fix. This complaint only holds up if you're a trophy / achievement hunter, but the trophy that requires you to get all the spark plugs from each Gold event (these are the races that actually progress the story along) for some reason doesn't work for some people. Unfortunately I was one of them. Sometimes the fix requires you to race the first Gold event again, sometimes you have to create a new save file and race every Gold race again. That's what worked for me. And for some rare few, sometimes it just doesn't work at all. Again, this is a minor complaint and only worth noting if you're into that kind of thing, but it definitely bears mentioning.

THE BOTTOM LINE : Definitely a game for kids, but tolerable if you're playing it with them as something to 'bond' over. The controls are easy, the racing is easy, there's good variety in things to do & play, the game is exceptionally forgiving and it's a property that kids love. All in all it's a pretty wholesome game and, if you're a kid, there's nothing not to like.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like being in the movie!, January 7, 2010

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R. Bateman - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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My 5 year old LOVES playing this game! I love that it is easy to change the difficulty level. I can put it on beginner for him and advanced for me or his father so he still gets a fair shot at winning. The graphics are amazing, there are tons of cars and load of fun races! A must have if you are a fan of the movie!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute game for kids, November 8, 2009

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J. Santillan "Mizz JoEy" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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I've never been a fan of video games and even as an adult I don't like them but I love how my 2 yr old nephew and 9 yr old niece play with this game. There aren't more than a handful of kid oriented PS3 games for young children. They need to make more! I love the fact that my 2 yr old nephew can mess up and turn the wrong way and the game automatically corrects his direction and even though he always comes in last he thinks he's won lol. This game is aimed for YOUNG CHILDREN not adults. I've seen many reviews online giving this particular game a bad grade. Okay folks it's not meant to challenge us old folk....it's for the kiddies and they love it!

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