{"id":21115,"date":"2021-04-07T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21115"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T13:00:56","slug":"beach-buggy-racing-2-island-adventure-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/07\/beach-buggy-racing-2-island-adventure-switch-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure (Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pick your driver and buggy and race on (mostly at first) tropical themed tracks in this kart racer sequel.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played a kart racer before, you\u2019ll know what you\u2019re getting into here.\u00a0 First pick a driver, and each one has a special ability you can activate twice per race.\u00a0 You\u2019ll unlock more drivers as you complete challenges.\u00a0 Same thing with the beach buggies, which is what you choose next.\u00a0 The tracks are tropical themed at first, centered around beaches and jungles.\u00a0 But later on you\u2019ll see more varied tracks like ice and outer space.\u00a0 Like other kart racers, on the tracks you can pick up weapons that\u2019ll help you gain the lead.\u00a0 Some you can pick up include boosts, shields, rockets, and more.\u00a0 In this sequel you can pick up two items at once.<\/p>\n

Adventure is the main mode of play.\u00a0 Here you move around on an island map and each spot is a challenge.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s a single race, but other times you must beat a certain time, race consecutive tracks in a cup, or other wacky challenges.\u00a0 You\u2019ll get up to three stars depending on how well you do.\u00a0 In order to progress to other areas, you must have a certain amount of stars, so you\u2019ll want to collect as many as you can.\u00a0 Some areas on the map allow you to challenge another racer to unlock them for use, or you can meet a grease monkey to upgrade stats on your vehicles, or unlock a new weapon.<\/p>\n

There is also a mode where you can race in cups on three to four consecutive tracks.\u00a0 Or you can just tackle a single track with standard rules, time trials, and more.\u00a0 Rounding out the modes is an online tournament where you take on pre-set challenges and can post best times and scores to a leaderboard.<\/p>\n

I played and reviewed the original Beach Buggy Racing<\/strong><\/a> four years ago, and while I don\u2019t remember much about it now, reading back on the review it seems I complained about it being too hard.\u00a0 Well that\u2019s not much of a problem here because you can choose three difficulty selections and it seems more playable.\u00a0 Plus all drivers and tracks are unlocked from the get-go in every mode but Adventure.<\/p>\n

Really the only problems I had with the sequel is that the play control is a little bit too loosey-goosey for my tastes, and the game looks way better in TV mode than it does in handheld mode.\u00a0 While I can think of a few kart racers I would recommend over this, at least this game is an improvement over the original, and that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

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

Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Mild Fantasy Violence and Tobacco Reference.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t see anyone smoking here, but you can fire cartoony weapons, like rockets, at other racers.\u00a0 And if you take a tumble your driver can fall out of their car and flop around for a bit.\u00a0 But that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pick your driver and buggy and race on (mostly at first) tropical themed tracks in this kart racer sequel.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. If you\u2019ve played a kart racer before, you\u2019ll know what you\u2019re getting into here.\u00a0 First pick a driver, and each one has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115","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=21115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21117,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions\/21117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}