Kart Crazy Race Simulator Game

Genre: Arcade Racing

Players: 1

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Review:

Kart Crazy Race Simulator Game, from here on simply referred to as Kart Crazy, is an Arcade-style Racing game, and I only say that because I can’t imagine any reasonable person calling this game a Simulation (regardless of what the title says). At the very least, the rest of the title is more or less accurate – you are racing karts, and you would indeed have to be crazy to buy this game.

Yeah, I’m not going to mince words here, this game is absolutely terrible in just about every respect.

I suppose I’ll start with the worst offender here, the physics. Everything about this game feels wrong. Even the slightest collision with other racers or the side of the track causes you to stick like glue, forcing you to reverse to un-stick. Steering is wildly inconsistent, being absolutely unresponsive one moment, and overreacting like crazy the next, without any clear indication why it’s even doing that. Oh, and just for good measure, the surface you’re driving on doesn’t seem to matter, and every now and then your vehicle will randomly make a hard turn for no reason (and no, that’s not controller drift – I had my Pro controllers repaired by Nintendo recently and they work just fine now).

The menus scream “low effort”, seeming slapped-together without so much as a title screen. There’s no continuity between races other than money earned which is used to unlock additional karts. You simply select your track, number of laps, number of computer-controlled opponents (no multiplayer here!), and the AI difficulty level, and you’re off to the race.

The game has only seven courses, and while they have different layouts, they all look the same – you’re in a dusty canyon dotted by occasional trees, driving on a paved course bordered by metal guard rails, with an overcast sky overhead. That’s it.

Of course, even what little content is here looks absolutely terrible. The character models for the racers at least look decent, but the track itself looks like something from out of the early days of 3D racing games, with bland textures, low-poly features, and just an overall bland, monotonous, ugly look to it. I suppose at the very least the framerates seem to be decent, but that doesn’t make the rest of the game look better. Ugh, and don’t get me started on the game’s one absolutely terrible Country Rock-style song that sounds like a bad parody of the genre.

I cannot think of any redeeming qualities for Kart Crazy. Not a single one. The gameplay is absolutely terrible, the game skimps on content, that content is monotonous and bland, there’s little overall cohesion to the game, few features, no multiplayer, terrible visuals, and an embarrassingly bad soundtrack of one song. If you’re looking for a good racing alternative to Mario Kart under $5 on the Nintendo Switch, get Asphalt 9: Legends instead. Sure, it’s loaded with nasty microtransactions, but it looks great, is a blast to play, and it won’t force you to listen to this game’s one terrible song.

tl;dr – Kart Crazy is an Arcade-style Racing game (regardless of what the title says) that fails miserably in every possible way. Horrible physics that strip all fun out of the game, a lack of content, repetitive ugly visuals, no multiplayer, and one terrible song on repeat. Even for $5, this game is absolutely not worth it. Heck, they could give this game away for free and I’d tell you to skip it. Do not waste any amount of money on this game.

Grade: F

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