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Instead, it fits with the light and fun feel of the game that is perfect for its target younger audience. The cars all feel very flighty on the road and this is certainly not as solid a racer as Mario Kart, yet that issue never spoils the show.
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Among the 30-plus vehicles in the game are series favourites, such as Lightning McQueen, Mater and Holley Shiftwell. secret agency, led by suave British sports car Finn McMissile, voiced in the film by Michael Caine, to swing into action. The rather weak story in Cars 2 involves the sinister Professor Z masterminding a dastardly plot to make cars reliant on his energy source, requiring the C.H.R.O.M.E. The lack of online play is a glaring omission, but Cars 2 is still a really fun racer with lots of interesting ideas that is an absolute blast to play locally with friends. Taking inspiration from Mario Kart and, possibly even more so, Disney's Split/Second: Velocity, Cars 2: The Video Game allows players to race colourful vehicles around interesting tracks, firing rockets, driving backwards and turbo-bursting to the finishing line. The game sensibly avoids recreating the film's story and instead just focuses on the joy of racing. So, hopes were not high for the film's video game tie-in, but thankfully Cars 2: The Video Game is actually pretty good. Sure, the film is as visually stunning as you would expect from the acclaimed studio, but Cars 2 appears to lack the engaging and emotive storyline of movies such as Toy Story and Up. It's fair to say that by Pixar's own lofty standards, Cars 2 has been a relatively underwhelming prospect on the silver screen.