![]() ![]() The second type of race has you running on foot. The first type of race is using the standard kart vehicle. But for some reason, the game changes the controls depending of the type of race you pick. The game at least tries to have some variety in it’s gameplay by having multiple different types of races. I know this is a game aimed at kids, and they don’t have high expectations, but I feel like something as simple as a kart racer shouldn’t have controls this bad. To compound the problem, some of the tracks have incredibly tight turns, meaning that you’re either going to find yourself driving off the track or hitting a wall and finding yourself a few positions behind where you were.Īnd yes, I know it’s the game and not me because even the AI has trouble with the driving at times. Half the time I had to restart a race because I got so turned around. And if you collide with something, it can accidentally turn you around, and the slippery controls make it hard to get back in the right direction. It’s unnecessarily difficult to turn corners. ![]() ![]() The one thing that had to be good, and it ended up being awful. I would have even loved to see someone like Barbados as an unlockable character.Īnd to top it all off, the driving is pretty bad. And to bring up Disney’s Extreme Skateboarding again, that game has characters with a variety of visually different looking characters, even the ones from the same movie. As a result, the game is filled with samey looking characters. And what’s annoying is that the game doesn’t even have the two wasp characters from the movie, which could have added some more variety and visual flair, and at least would have padded out the roster to an acceptable amount, despite the fact that one of them is even on the cover of the game. ![]() When you’re getting one-upped by Disney’s Extreme Skateboarding, it’s time to call it quits.Īnd unlike the game that it’s trying to ape off of, Mario Kart, Antz didn’t exactly have a lot of characters to pick from, and it’s pretty obvious from the fact that the game has 6 total characters to pick from, with 4 of them being unlockables. Not even sound-alikes, something which even Disney’s Extreme Skateboarding did. Antz Extreme Racing doesn’t even do that and ends up being a lazily put together cash grab that’s somehow late to promoting it’s own film.Īntz Extreme racing doesn’t even have voice clips from the movie for it’s characters. But the team that developed the game clearly knew that they were making a game that was just a promotional tool, so they jumped on the back on the gameplay of another game to do the heavy work for them, and it ended up being a competent game despite the fact that it was obviously an advertisement. That game is literally just the gameplay from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 but with a Disney and Pixar coat of paint to promote the movies that were big at the time. I’m going to make a comparison to another obvious cash grab, “Disney’s Extreme Skateboarding”, to make a point. But that feels like I’m reaching for compliments when I’m talking about the graphics, which I am. Plus it carries of the art style of the movie well enough. It’s not the worst looking game that I’ve seen on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox and the characters do look like their movie counterparts, despite their faces having the exact same facial expression the whole game. If this was rushed out to come out as the same time as the theatrical or even VHS release for the film, the game being a kart racer would make a lot more sense, or at least a more more excusable as to how and why it ended up the way it did, but somehow this game ended up on the XBOX and PS2, 4 years and a whole console generation later. Now you might be asking yourself, “Why are you reviewing a shitty 18 year old video game based on a movie that people only talk about when someone goes ‘Hey, do you remember Antz?'” I have a lot of free time, and very little in the way of dignity.Īnd to make matters worse, it doesn’t even take advantage of the large time span between the films theatrical release and the game’s release date by having a more polished game. If it isn’t obvious from the title and box art, Antz Extreme Racing is a kart racing game based on the film Antz. Someone out there thought it was a good idea to release an Antz game in 2002, a whopping 4 years after the movie came out. ![]()
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