All-Star Fruit Racing Demo

Racing games are not always designed to test your driving skills, because some are just fun arcade titles that allow you to race with your friends and maybe get into a friendly accident or two. Naturally, even arcade racing games can be extremely competitive and difficult to master, as we have seen in the last decade or so in the case of the TrackMania franchise.

All-Star Fruit Racing is far more laid back then TrackMania, on the other hand, as well as much more open to casual players. In essence, it’s an arcade racing game that takes place on colorful tropical islands and your goal is to blitz across wacky tracks while avoiding nasty traps and collecting power-ups. To make things better, the game is playable in both local and online multiplayer as well.

To begin with, the game features five different islands you can unlock, each one of which features varying environments and tougher tracks. In order to unlock them, you have to beat the career mode and prove that you are faster than the AI drivers. Not only that, but the races also reward you with currency that allows you to customize your kart with a variety of unique parts.

In fact, there are thousands of possible combinations, especially when you also factor in the cosmetic options that allow you to change the look of your vehicles. As for the racing mechanics themselves, there’s not much to do other than accelerating and watching out for obstacles, but there are also power-ups that can be used to boost your kart or even slow down opponents. Thus, there are some Mario Kart elements in there as well.

Since the game is designed for casual audiences, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the graphics are very colorful, but it’s worth noting that they are also very detailed. In fact, you may need a pretty decent computer if you are thinking about cranking up the quality level settings. Unfortunately, even with a powerful machine you can still run into frame rate problems, mostly likely due to optimization issues.

In the end, All-Star Fruit Racing is not a difficult game to pick up, but it can take you a long time to master the controls and challenge the high scores. Thus, you can get many hours of entertainment out of the game.