DLC cars only seem to work in single-player free play modes.Ĭars 2 offers up a gentle difficulty curve, with a good chunk of the early missions being trivially easy to master. missions, and they also do not appear in multiplayer. Unfortunately, DLC cars don't seem to integrate nicely into the game. In fact, you can snag the Queen as a freebie. Initially, the selection is a bit limited, but in all, there are 35 cars available on the game disc, with more being available via DLC. Much like the tracks, there are also plenty of cars to unlock. The race is over when your shield is depleted. Survival has you racing along the track, collecting shield pickups along the way. Arena is deathmatch style, every car for himself, while disruptor is a team objective, with the goal being to plant a bomb in your opponent's base. Arena and disruptor are multiplayer only.
Here you have to face off against five waves of enemy cars in a limited amount of time, with the goal being to destroy as many as possible.
Hunter is something of a friendly Cars twist on Horde mode in Gears of War 2. Attack mode requires you to destroy enemy cars in order to add time to the clock, while Battle races are simply races with weapons. Some of the locations that you'll visit are Italy, London, Tokyo, the airport, the oil rig and Radiator Springs.Īmong the mission types are attack, battle races, hunter, survival and traditional races. Any game types and tracks that are unlocked in mission mode are then available for free play. Initially, only the first level is unlocked, but as you win races, you earn points toward unlocking the next level. Cars 2 is split across six different "clearance levels," each of which contains a variety of race type. Once through the training missions, it's on to the actual game. Yeah, it's overkill for a core gamer, but ideal for the target audience. The game even highlights the correct button prompts on-screen. All of the controls (from the basic stuff through the trickier stunts) are demonstrated by an AI car before you are instructed to attempt them yourself. Perhaps realizing that younger gamers aren't likely to read instruction manuals, the developers at Avalanche implemented a nifty tutorial level. Some liberties are taken given the expected audience, but for the most part, Cars 2 feels like a Pixar-themed mash-up of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Mario Kart. No, you're not going to find the realism of Forza Motorsport or Gran Turismo, but you will find responsive controls, power slides, speed boosts and plenty of weapons. At its core, Cars 2 is a solid arcade style racer.
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