Hats provide item-specific bonuses, with each increasing the effect of one specific pickup. Garfield Kart has karts, spoilers, and hats. Mario Kart has karts, gliders, and wheels. But it can also be dropped behind you to create a hazard, providing tactical flexibility in the middle of a race. At first glance, the Spring appears to be functionally identical to Mario Kart‘s feather, sending your racer into the air to dodge obstacles and reach new areas. But some items can be used in multiple ways. 1. Multi-Use Itemsįurious Racing has two buttons to deploy items, which it for some reason calls “bonuses.” Like in Mario Kart, items such as pies (the equivalent of green shells) can be fired forward or backward. A number of things about the experience are disturbing: the image of Garfield racing his human owner Jon in a sports car, the fact that none of the characters’ mouths or fingers animate, the presence of “Harry,” who appears to be a kind of Wa-garfield.īut most unsettling of all, in my hour and change spent with the game I realized that Garfield Kart: Furious Racing actually contained a number of good design elements that I haven’t seen in a kart racing game before. As you might expect, the game is a third-rate Mario Kart clone peopled by Garfield and a number of his friends, and featuring items and levels vaguely referencing Garfield’s long history. Last night, in a move I can only describe as “fueled by a deep and all-encompassing self loathing,” I streamed Garfield Kart: Furious Racing.
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