{"id":22126,"date":"2022-03-23T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22126"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:56:19","slug":"music-racer-ultimate-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/music-racer-ultimate-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Racer: Ultimate (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Drive down neon laden streets to the beat of the music in Music Racer: Ultimate.\u00a0 Pick a car and a road and a song and try to collect white dots while avoiding crashing into pillars to increase your combo score.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to play on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

First you\u2019ll pick your car.\u00a0 You can customize the paint jobs on each one and unlock more as you play.\u00a0 You\u2019ll earn points depending on how well you can do, and you can use those points to unlock new cars and locations for you to race on.\u00a0 Some of the cars you can get are based on popular vehicles from movies and TV shows, like the DeLorean from Back to the Future, lightcycle from TRON, and the Knight Rider car!<\/p>\n

After you choose your car, you\u2019ll pick a song that plays in the background. \u00a0You can choose from one of dozens of techno sounding tunes, or you can upload your own using a music program I\u2019ve never heard of.\u00a0 After that you pick a mode to race in.\u00a0 Standard mode has you driving down lanes, picking up white cubes while avoiding pillars.\u00a0 The more white cubes you collect, the higher your combo, but if you hit a pillar, your combo will break.\u00a0 There is also a hard mode where the pillars are smaller and tougher to see from a distance, but honestly I didn\u2019t notice much of a difference between these two modes.<\/p>\n

Another mode you can play in is Zen mode which takes out the pillars entirely.\u00a0 This mode is relaxing and a great way to rack up points if you want to unlock stuff.\u00a0 There is also a mode where you can just watch the car drive to the music as you use the control stick to move the camera around.\u00a0 You can also toggle options before you start any of these modes.\u00a0 The most notable option lets you choose from simple or advanced controls.\u00a0 Simple lets you press left and right to switch lanes, while Advanced is more like driving a car.\u00a0 But since that\u2019s all you control, both ways are pretty easy to grasp.<\/p>\n

I liked the 80\u2019s neon aesthetic of the game but since you can\u2019t control your speed, you\u2019re always moving really fast.\u00a0 It makes it hard to react when a pillar is speeding your way.\u00a0 Luckily there are plenty of songs and ways to play and things to unlock, there\u2019s just not much in the gameplay department.<\/p>\n

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Music Racer: Ultimate is rated T for Teen with an ESRB descriptor of Language.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing the language is in the lyrics, but I didn\u2019t notice anything.\u00a0 Nothing worse than what you\u2019d hear on the radio anyway.\u00a0 If you hit a pillar, your car will break into pixels for a second before going back to normal, and that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drive down neon laden streets to the beat of the music in Music Racer: Ultimate.\u00a0 Pick a car and a road and a song and try to collect white dots while avoiding crashing into pillars to increase your combo score.\u00a0 It\u2019s available to play on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here. First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22126","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\/22126","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=22126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22128,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions\/22128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}