Gadget Racers

"At last, a GT3 challenger! All right, it's a load of donkey turd"

I just had to write this review since the only other one about it gave it a 9. I'm hereby warning unaware gamers that might me tempted to try this game following that one review.

Playing Gadget Racers for longer than an hour is akin to being booted in the testicles while waiting at the dentist to have root canal surgery. In fact, it's probably worse than having root canal surgery. At least if you're lucky you can get that on the National Health Service.

The handling is bad. Very bad. Most children played with toy cars. Someone behind this game clearly preferred playing with a brick on a bit of string.
Turning a corner without breaking is nigh-on impossible, which is unfortunate as the computer opponents seem to be able to do it in a coma.

Then there's the graphics. These could well lead you to double check the box to see if this is really a PSone game in disguise. Although, in fact, it would look lousy for a PSone game. This is a prime example of how to make a game look duff. There are minimal textures and when the graphics do become slightly more detailed it looks like Mario Kart as drawn by a chimp. Although, a chimp could do better actually. A few of the lighting effects are passable, but that's as far as it goes.

And what about the sound you ask? Well, aside from the atrocious cartoon music, which will give you a hangover even if you haven't been drinking, the most obvious flaw is that your car never makes any crashing noise, even when falling from a height or colliding with another car. The sounds that you hear in this debacle is most likely used to blow up heads with in Scanners.

Gadget Racers is being sold for a lower price. This may sound cheap, until you consider that it's probably a good 30 bucks more than it took to develop it in the first place.

The only reason it didn't get an utterly disgraceful 1 as rating is that the game does have lots of levels to 'race' through. Sadly, you won't want to play them all.

There's almost nothing good about this stinking dog of a game. Should be put to sleep before it causes any more heartache. Surely the team behind the Army Men series is responsible for this?
Avoid this as if it were a Kelly Family album. I say this is an early contender for the worst PS2 game ever.

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 10/21/02, Updated 11/30/02