Power Racing Bundle

Genre: Compilation / Arcade Racing

Players: 1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen)

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Review:

(Note: Multiple games included in this bundle are available in other bundles. Speedway Racing is also available in Speedway Bundle Stock & Truck along with Speed Truck Racing, and WildTrax Racing is also included in Power Racing Bundle 2 along with Speed Truck Racing. In addition, all of the contents of this bundle are included in Power Racing Bundle 3, along with Speed Truck Racing.)

Power Racing Bundle, released on Nintendo Switch in 2020, is a Compilation of two Arcade Racing games: Speedway Racing and WildTrax Racing, both games also released separately on the Nintendo Switch in 2020.

Here’s what I thought of each of the games in this collection:

Game	Genre	# of Players	Grade
Speedway Racing	Arcade Racing	1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen)	D+
tl;dr Speedway Racing is an Arcade Racing game with NASCAR-style racing events. The game mixes some surprisingly good presentation elements with some bad ones and some that are outright bizarre. However, even the good elements here are hard to appreciate with this game’s terrible framerates, bad collision physics, and some really inexplicably awful design choices that make this game an ordeal to play.
WildTrax Racing	Arcade Racing	1-4 Competitive (Local Split-Screen)	D+
tl;dr WildTrax Racing is an Arcade Racing game where players take 4×4 vehicles out on off-road courses. Unfortunately, the game has a serious lack of content, the single-player gameplay isn’t very compelling, and the multiplayer mode is crippled by horrendous graphical issues. I struggle to see any reason to play this game at all.

Both of these games make use of many of the same art assets, and both games share many of the same flaws. Both games have some good lighting in areas, but suffer from some nasty slowdown and aliasing – WildTrax Racing’s multiplayer is crippled by these graphical flaws, and Speedway Racing suffers from them throughout the entire game. And both games have the same inexplicable use of sound-alike brand logos for companies like “Mechilin”, “Mibol” and “Subawy” (no, I didn’t misspell those) and a strange, cheesy announcer, who says things like “kart your engines”.

Between the two, I think Speedway Racing had a bit more potential – it has a fantastic soundtrack, and the visuals are more polished… but the game is ruined by multiple design flaws that make it a pain to play. WildTrax Racing, meanwhile, is the more playable game between the two, but it’s also bland, horribly lacking in content, and the graphical problems leave the multiplayer so broken that it’s nearly unplayable.

In the end, neither of these games is very good, and bundling them together doesn’t change that, especially considering the bundle in question only saves you $1 off the price of buying both games separately. Save your dollar… in fact, save all of them, and just don’t buy Power Racing Bundle at all. Neither of the games in this package is worth getting.

tl;dr – Power Racing Bundle is a compilation of Speedway Racing and WildTrax Racing, two Arcade Racing games that have a lot of shared art assets, but also both have some terrible framerate issues and game design flaws. There are a few good points here and there, but overall neither of these games is worth getting.

Grade: D+

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