Racing Fever Review (Android)

Racing Fever is indicative of a strange trend in gaming on the Android platform: A bunch of developers; like a hive mind; clamour to seemingly make exactly the same game, at exactly the same time, only to change the second word in the title, in order to distinguish it from the other clones, almost as if they all knowingly participated in this reptilian conspiracy. Tinfoil hat aside, Racing Fever seems to stick out in this ocean of titles ripping each-other off.

Gameplay

Racing fever is a traffic-dodging game, where the objective is to be the world's drunkest ass hole on the 405 freeway in southern California or something. The objective is to drive really fast, and get as close to slower moving traffic as possible as you blast pass cars without hitting them.

I don't get how you call a game "Racing Fever" when clearly it isn't sweating buckets, nor is its core temperature above 100.4 F. And what the hell are you racing exactly, oncoming traffic?I mean I get that they added a multilayer mode, where you can dodge traffic with your friends, but that's more of a contest to see who can move past a car less than a pixel away from yours without scraping off the paint the most, not a contest to see who could land first place.

Controls

The controls are smooth and responsive, the buttons are in the right place, and all is well in that regard. I'm just glad they didn't put the brake and gas pedals in a stupid place like some other Android games out there.

Visuals

There is something to be said about a juiced-up version of your average Tiger Electronics hand-held game having graphics like this. This game manages to look good, all while being responsive and enjoyable, even on really old shitty phones like my LG L3 II.

Features

Some things that make this game stand out are the fact that you can customize your vehicle, in much the same way as every other racing game out there that Riped off the Need For Speed: Underground series. You can add stupid looking rims, paint, vinyls, and even stuff money into the tires brakes and engine, as if the car runs on cash or something.

I noticed that out of the majority of android titles, the best ones seem to have added some weird slot machine feature that lets you gamble and shit, and this is no exception. You get one free gambling ticket every day, which you can use to test your luck on the slot machine thing that lets you win money and free cars.

Problems

Only drawback I see here is that every time you crash your car, you are greeted with a Google play automated video Ad that advertises some other game, like: "hey, total bummer you crashed your car, dude! Wouldn't you rather be playing Boom Beach instead?" Dick move, Google. Dick move. Of corse, you can pay a fee of real cash to take that off, but still...

All in all, good game, great visuals, and great vehicle customization, all without trying to ad a fucking storyline and 6 minute cut scenes, like some of these Triple-A publishers nowadays.

Share on Google Plus

About Pr0litic