![]() If you want to see a particular app featured, drop us a line or suggest it in the comments. That's progress for you.Īpp of the Day highlights interesting games we're playing on the Android, iPad, iPhone and Windows Phone 7 mobile platforms, including post-release updates. Reckless Racing 2 changes or strips out almost everything that made Reckless Racing great and rebuilds it as a better but ever-so slightly blander game. Reckless Racing is Pixelbite’s third game and the first one that was not a work for hire. Its capacity for both subtle steering and knife-edge jerks the perfect extremes for these brash tracks. The change from the ornery stylings of its predecessor is an initially jarring one, and it's arguably too slow to show why it's made them - the first half hour of Career mode drags, and racing online is pointless until you've invested a good chunk of time or money (as with everything these days, in-app purchases are available).īut the new handling model wins out. Nevertheless, Reckless Racing 2 is a beauty. It seems bizarre that what is surely the most important mode is so bare bones. The races are great, but all the persistence and structure is reserved for single-player mode. You pick a lobby, then you race, and that's it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Polarbit has made brave and radical changes to the game itself, but multiplayer remains basic. Multiplayer is where it's at, though - and perhaps the only real disappointment. The three stats are split into three types of upgrades, so it's easy to concentrate on getting your speed high before any of those Jessie components. The last mode, Single Event, lets you choose the race type and track for a one-off. Much better is Arcade mode - 40 bite-size missions that are each a few minutes long and vary cars and tracks. This is a little grindy, because the later cups can't be entered without a car the game deems sufficient. These are four races followed by an overall ranking and a cash prize, which can be spent in the shop either to upgrade or buy new cars. There are three single-player modes, and Career offers a series of cups. Smoke rises as tyres screech, sunbeams filter through trees and dapple the track, and mud flies as cars desperately rev for purchase. It's a stunner, too, the crisp lines and high resolution garnished with a huge range of effects. That is a loss, but everything else about Reckless Racing 2's driving feels right. Though ramming opponents is still a part of the game and the collision detection is perfect, it's rarely exciting when impacts feel light and flimsy - you're shoving past rather than barrelling through. Nevertheless, Reckless Racing 2 does somewhat abandon the reckless part. Online these are the nightmare corners, where you can guarantee Joe56 is thinking of a jackknife. If you plump for the latter, the crazy long slides suddenly start appearing again. Upgrading is another new feature and also where Reckless Racing 2 begins to convince, allowing you to customise a car's style between all-out speed, balanced and drifting. Overall it's less rambunctious, but elements of the handling remain exaggerated - slightly overturn at a corner, for example, and the car swings suddenly in that direction. Where the original was all wild slides and pile-ups, this is much more about racing lines, cornering and tight, controlled slides. The drifting is changed significantly from Reckless Racing, initially at least, and this affects everything. The country tunes get a trendy remix, the ramshackle jeeps and jalopies of the original are now sleek sports cars, and what on earth's happened to the drifting? These drooling bumpkins and greasy villains are a dash of the redneck personality that themed the original, but in Reckless Racing 2 they're kept on the sidelines. Verdict:įast-paced and frantic, Reckless Racing is a stunning look game that will keep you coming back for more.The drivers' portraits in Reckless Racing 2 tell a sad tale. ![]() There are also enhanced graphics and a greater level of control that is afforded by the iPad larger screen. The iPad version of the game feature three additional tracks, meaning there are 16 in total once all of the reverse track options have been unlocked. The game can be played in three different modes - Dirt Rally, Hot Lap time trial, or Delivery time trial - so whatever sort of racing you're in the mood for, there is a game mode for you. In addition to the arcade style solo game, you can also play in online multi-player mode and share your bets times and ghost races with other players from around the world. There are numerous combinations of races available - track or road, truck or car - and there are three different difficulty levels to work through. While there is certainly no shortage of excitement when it comes to rubber burning racing, it is Reckless Racing's graphics that immediately jump from the screen. There are plenty of racing games to choose from for the iOS platform and Reckless Racing falls into the slightly less well populated category of top-down racers. ![]()
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