Customer Reviews

Micro Machines V4

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This game really needed to be designed a lot better. First off the graphics hardly seemed like they where micro machines, just more an aerial view of what could have been any kind of racing game.

The cars themselves look pretty pathetic, and the tracks are hard to tell what is track and what is the floor, you have to do the track a couple of times to memorize it before you can complete it. Which is no fun for what should be easy enough for kids to plow through.

It contains the typical races found in most MM games, the normal race, the annoying, beat your opponent to the top of the screen, then restart the race in which the computer will get an advantage, and whatever the other one is.

Being that the DS is close enough to 64 bit, you would think the graphics in 3D would look better and you would have more ease and control, but the sloppy handling and confusing tracks are both quite boring and difficult to navigate. The SNES version wasnt even half of what the DS can do, but was more fun and graphically better.

If your looking for a racing game for the kids, skip this one, and go for Hot Wheels: Beat That which is 100 times more fun then this one.

Porting Micro Machines to the DS has opened the series to a whole new generation fo gamers.
Few will remember the top-down view of the V1 and V2 games, and so the isometric view of the V3 game is refined in this version, allowing a more natural feel, and the sensation of hills and other route variations to be apparent.
But I did find some of the time challenges quite hard, even at the easy level.