

The only sad thing about Beach Buggy Racing is lack of online multiplayer, with only local gameplay an option. Each track is beautifully thought out and a joy to race around. Every single track has amazing detail to it, with some really cool scenery. One minute players could be bouncing off the backs of Turtles in Dino Jungle the next avoiding the lava in Death Bat Alley before knocking a Yeti flying in Blizzard Peak. As you progress through the Career mode you will also unlock new maps, there are fifteen in total.

There are many great little events to keep the entertainment going and are a nice distraction from the usual races. Another great event is Follow The Leader where you must follow a single racer around a set track, the objective is to pick up the orbs or power ups that they drop, failure to keep up with the the leading buggy ends the race and you will need to restart. Each event you experience adds a different dimension to the norm of racing, from Elimination, an event where the racer in last place when the timer ends is eliminated until only one racer remains and is the winner.

Once players have been put through their paces they are then sent back to the menu where the game really begins and there are plenty of modes to choose from.īeating the individual racers also unlocks the next series as the game gets harder with more races and new events added to each series as you progress. As the game loads up you are taken through a quick tutorial on the basics of the game including how to use some of the games many power ups, of which there are twenty five. The Power Ups in Beach Buggy Racing can be a joy to use and a pain if used against you. The usual Oil Slick and Nitro are available as well as some really fun weapons like the Death Bat, which when deployed will hunt down the leading racer and wipe out anyone stupid enough to be in its direct path before annihilating them with sheer force then there’s Low Gravity which lowers the gravity of the track leaving all other racers floating in the air allowing players to take full advantage, my personal favourite power up however is the Chicken which when left on the track will leave the unfortunate racer who runs into it with a face full of clucking and feathers. There are twenty five different Power Ups that can be picked up during each race in Beach Buggy Racing and every single one is very different from the next.
