{"id":18353,"date":"2018-11-02T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18353"},"modified":"2018-10-14T10:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T10:41:30","slug":"nickelodeon-kart-racers-switch-ps4-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/02\/nickelodeon-kart-racers-switch-ps4-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickelodeon Kart Racers (Switch, PS4, Xbox One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For several generations, youngsters have enjoyed watching shows on the Nickelodeon cable channel for kids.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was a little kid back in the 80\u2019s, I enjoyed watching Nick shows such as You Can\u2019t Do that on Television, Danger Mouse, and Double Dare.\u00a0 Even more recently I\u2019ve been known to watch shows on that channel like Invader ZIM and The Penguins of Madagascar.\u00a0 My younger brothers would watch shows on Nickelodeon, too, such as Rugrats and SpongeBob Squarepants.\u00a0 And now kart racing and Nickelodeon fans can have fun together with Nickelodeon Kart Racers, available for nearly all current consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played a kart racing game before, you know exactly what to expect here.\u00a0 You can choose from several different racers from the Nickelodeon lineup.\u00a0 These include SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy from SpongeBob Squarepants, Arnold and Helga from Hey, Arnold!, Tommy, Angelica, and Reptar (yes!) from Rugrats, and the four turtles from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because apparently Nickelodeon owns the rights to them now.\u00a0 You\u2019ll race on themed tracks from those cartoons as well.\u00a0 Such as the streets of Bikini Bottom and the Glove World Amusement Park from SpongeBob, the downtown city and elementary school from Hey, Arnold!, a toy store and birthday decorated playroom from Rugrats, and the sewers and Dimension X from TMNT.\u00a0 Tracks will sometimes change depending on the lap you\u2019re on, which is cool.\u00a0 As you race around the tracks, you can pick up weapons to give you an edge.\u00a0 These also make refence to the shows, but are standard kart weapons like sewer lid shields, baby bottle rockets, and many more.<\/p>\n

Green Slime has always played an important role on Nickelodeon shows.\u00a0 I think it all started with them dumping slime on people\u2019s heads in shows like You Can\u2019t Do That On Television and Double Dare, and more recently the Kids\u2019 Choice Awards.\u00a0 Green Slime plays an important part in Nickelodeon Kart Racers as well, because it\u2019s how you earn turbo boosts.\u00a0 On the tracks are patches of green slime, and if you run over them, your boost meter will fill.\u00a0 You can also run over objects that\u2019ll make it rain down slime.\u00a0 Your slime meter has three notches, and you can use a notch for a small turbo boost, or fill all three for a larger one.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me how the boost meters work in recent Ridge Racer games.\u00a0 Some tracks are filled to the brim with slime, and similar to Sonic and SEGA Racing Transformed, your karts can sprout floats (and wings for air sections) to race on a sea of slime.\u00a0 While on these slime filled sections, your boost meter will fill really fast, so have fun!\u00a0 Sometimes on these areas they\u2019ll mix things up with slalom and elimination sections.<\/p>\n

The game has your standard kart modes.\u00a0 For single player, you can race in cups where you take on several tracks and earn more points the higher you place.\u00a0 You can also do a single race or time trials.\u00a0 Scattered about the tracks are also coins, which you can use to buy parts in the shop.\u00a0 You can buy parts and paint jobs that\u2019ll make your karts look like vehicles from the shows, like Mermaidman\u2019s Boatmobile, the Flying Dutchman\u2019s Ship, the Jolly Olly Ice Cream Truck, and the Party Wagon.\u00a0 You can also earn these parts when you level up your racer by winning.\u00a0 Local multiplayer modes include cup races with or without teams, single races, and battle modes featuring events like free-for-all with weapons, tag, and capture the flag.\u00a0 So there are plenty of modes in this game, and different difficulty selections as well.<\/p>\n

The game does have a few problems, though.\u00a0 It feels like they just kind of slapped this game together, as graphics look like they could\u2019ve been done on the PS2 or GameCube.\u00a0 The game is also a bit buggy, as I would get stuck in places on the track at times, but luckily the game would reset me back on the track soon after.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to know where to go on the tracks, too.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve also have been nice to have more characters.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve loved to have raced as Invader ZIM or characters from Rocko\u2019s Modern Life.\u00a0 But perhaps the worst offender is that the game has no voices.\u00a0 Instead, characters react with text on the bottom of the screen.\u00a0 That\u2019s so cheap.\u00a0 I know it would\u2019ve cost more to get the voice actors in to say lines, but it would\u2019ve added so much more to the presentation value.\u00a0 As it stands, Nickelodeon Kart Racers is a mediocre kart game for Nick fans.\u00a0 But if you just need one kart racer on the Switch, you might as well go with the vastly superior Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.<\/p>\n

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Nickelodeon Kart Racers is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Cartoon Violence.\u00a0 You can fire silly cartoon weapons at other racers, who just spin around when hit, and that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching Nick shows and movies, they\u2019ll be OK with this game, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful as the game is text based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several generations, youngsters have enjoyed watching shows on the Nickelodeon cable channel for kids.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was a little kid back in the 80\u2019s, I enjoyed watching Nick shows such as You Can\u2019t Do that on Television, Danger Mouse, and Double Dare.\u00a0 Even more recently I\u2019ve been known to watch shows on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353","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=18353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18355,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions\/18355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}