Games are played across four event modes. But with no career or any real single-player meat, you are going to get bored really quick. Solo players can partake in all the game has to offer on their own via the skirmish mode. Micro Machines is geared up for online play. There’s the arena-style battle mode deathmatches, the more conventional races and elimination mode, where vehicle that get left behind find themselves out of the race. You can change colours, body shapes and taunts to suit your style.

The vehicles can be cosmetically upgraded using Loot Boxes earnt during play. There’s a good selection of vehicles to choose from, each with their own handling characteristics, from the heavy tank to the slippery hovercraft. The plastic pellet-firing guns are joined by roof mounted hammers, shotguns and lasers, all helping players get the edge over their opponents. Once you’ve got it, you are soon power sliding across table tops.Īs well as Micro Machines, the similarly Hasbro-owned NERF guns have been smuggled into the game as power-up weapons. You are racing top-down, so you need to turn your Micro Machine relative to its direction. The vehicle handing takes a bit of getting used to. The visuals are fair, eschewing the photo-realism that I think would better suit this modern incarnation for cartoony graphics that don’t look too far removed from the original. The F1, Dirt and Grid racing games are all from the Codemasters stable.Īfter a decade’s absence, Micro Machines are back with Micro Machines World Series. Since then the series’ publisher, Codemasters, has become synonymous with development racing games. It was a massive hit, spawning four sequels (ignoring the running spin-off, Micro Maniacs) finishing up with Micro Machines V4 in 2007. The top down racer featured toy vehicles and circuits across breakfast tables, backyards and other domestic locations. Who didn’t spend hours as a kid driving toy cars across the lounge, along the coffee table, through the kitchen, over the dog and up the stairs? In the early nineties, the fledgling Codemasters bought tabletop racing to life with their Micro Machines game.

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