{"id":16688,"date":"2017-07-28T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16688"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:37:52","slug":"cars-3-driven-to-win-ps4-ps3-switch-wii-u-xbox-one-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/cars-3-driven-to-win-ps4-ps3-switch-wii-u-xbox-one-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars 3: Driven to Win (PS4, PS3, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, 360)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cars 3 is driving around theaters this summer and now you can cruise around with the characters in the Cars 3: Driven to Win racing game.\u00a0 Play as Lighting McQueen, Jackson Storm, Mater, and many more in a plethora of racing events.\u00a0 Cars 3: Driven to Win is available on nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The game really doesn\u2019t follow the plot of the recent movie, but takes place after it.\u00a0 All the cars are now friendly rivals and just want to race each other, win trophies, and have fun.\u00a0 Races are hosted by Chick Hick\u2019s TV show, and you can choose from dozens of characters.\u00a0 Most are from the Cars 3 movie.\u00a0 Race as Lightning, Mater, Jackson Storm, Miss Fritter, Smokey, and other classic competitors.\u00a0 Heck, you can even be Mack the truck or Guido the forklift!\u00a0 Some of the racers you may have to unlock first, though.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll use nearly every button on the controller to steer around the tracks.\u00a0 The L stick and L2 and R2 buttons are for steering, braking, and accelerating.\u00a0 The face buttons allow you to jump, use weapons or a turbo boost, and drift.\u00a0 By flicking the R stick in certain directions, you can perform stunts like side bashing other cars, driving backwards, or on two wheels.\u00a0 Why would you want to do that?\u00a0 Well, on certain parts of the track, if you do stunts like that, you\u2019ll make your turbo meter go up faster.\u00a0 When you have a slot of your turbo meter full, you can press a button for a speed boost.\u00a0 If all four meters are full, you can double tap that button to be \u2018In the Zone\u201d which lets you crash into opponents without slowing down, and you get a longer turbo boost as well.\u00a0 The controls sound complicated, but they\u2019re really not once you get used to them.<\/p>\n

One of the best parts about the game are the tons of tracks and game modes you can choose from.\u00a0 Most of the tracks are new, but there are some from previous Cars games as well.\u00a0 Game modes include standard races, where the only thing you have to concentrate on is filling your turbo meter to beat the other cars.\u00a0 Battle Races are similar to standard races, but now weapon pickups are scattered about the track, giving this mode a more \u201cMario Kart\u201d feel.\u00a0 In Takedown, you pick up weapons but you\u2019re the only one on the track.\u00a0 Ahead of you are remote controlled non-living wagon karts for you to blow up, and you must try to get as many as you can within a time limit for points.\u00a0 In Stunt Showcase, ramps are put on the track for you to jump on and try to pop balloons and perform air tricks for points.\u00a0 Beat your best lap times on the tracks in Best Lap Challenge.\u00a0 There are also Master Level Events where you\u2019ll go up against super tough racers in specific events.\u00a0 This is how you unlock some of the racers in the game.\u00a0 In the Playground mode, you\u2019ll explore the Thomasville training center at your leisure as you find secrets, complete missions, and collect Mack the truck\u2019s hats (so you can unlock him as well).\u00a0 And finally is the Hall of Fame, which gives you objectives to complete, and when you do, you can unlock more tracks, modes, characters, and other goodies.\u00a0 Most of the game modes can also be played competitively or cooperatively in couch multiplayer form in Team Sponsor Mode.<\/p>\n

Cars 3\u2019s problems are very minor and hardly worth mentioning, but I\u2019ll do it anyway.\u00a0 \u00a0You have to unlock most of the modes first, and while it doesn\u2019t take very long, it may annoy some people slightly that you can jump into multiplayer without unlocking it first.\u00a0 Some of the controls where you must flick the R stick to do stunts can be tricky to do at first.\u00a0 And since this game is available on older consoles as well, the graphics don\u2019t look at good as they could\u2019ve been on the newer systems.\u00a0 And if you haven\u2019t seen the movie yet, the game may have some slight spoilers.\u00a0 But again, those are very minor problems and this is still a fun racing game for all ages.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cars 3: Driven to Win is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Cartoon Violence. You can bump into other opponents as well as fire weapons like rockets and rapid fire guns.\u00a0 But players who get hit or take a tumble will just be tossed around a bit and sent back on the track.\u00a0 And they may should out \u201cOuch\u201d or \u201cWhoa\u201d or \u201cOK I\u2019m back\u201d but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the movies, they\u2019ll definitely be OK with the game.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and very young gamers may find the controls a little too complex.\u00a0 There are selectable difficulty levels so players of all ages can enjoy it.\u00a0 And it\u2019s still a great racing game for the whole family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cars 3 is driving around theaters this summer and now you can cruise around with the characters in the Cars 3: Driven to Win racing game.\u00a0 Play as Lighting McQueen, Jackson Storm, Mater, and many more in a plethora of racing events.\u00a0 Cars 3: Driven to Win is available on nearly all current game consoles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16690,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions\/16690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}