Funny Racer Demo

Racing games may be fun and intense, but they are also rather difficult for those who are not familiar with the genre and even more so with small children that are not yet able to properly take inertia and various other such parameters into account. Hence, major simulators are not the best choice for them, which is why arcade racers have been invented to fill in this blank.

Funny Racer, on the other hand, goes a bit too far and basically removes any kind of realistic concepts from the picture, choosing to portray races as purely imaginary events that take place in magical lands. Hence, beside the fact that the vehicles themselves do not adhere to any kind of physics law in existence, the tracks themselves take the participants through fantastical environments, sprinkled with waving snowmen and various other dreamy pictures inspired by cartoons.

This is, by all accounts, a good thing, because it is only natural that every small child would enjoy it very much and won't question the existence of ice castles in the middle of a race track. However, the game also assumes that design mistakes and atrocious gameplay mechanics would also go unnoticed, as long as they are nicely wrapped in pretty colors and joyful landscapes.

They cannot go unnoticed, though, since they are fairly obvious as soon as you sit down and try to steer the cars around a bit. While realism is not a must, as previously explained, it must be at least possible to easily steer and control the vehicles out on the track, without having to bump into every wall on the way to the finish line. Since it is not at all fun to do so, even the children might get frustrated and upset after a few minutes.

The AI can greatly contribute to this problem as well, since the opponents are incredibly hard to overtake, while every little mistake can leave you unable to recuperate for the rest of the race. An interesting gimmick is the fact that your car damages as you hit the obstacles, but that is far from being a good thing, since the controls make it almost impossible to remain unharmed over the course of the race. Thankfully, you can pick-up repair kits and fix this damage, although they are rather hard to spot.

Funny Racer is definitely not the type of game you want to subject your child to, unless you decide to ground him. Starting from the awful controls and the terrible mechanics, all the way to the lack of diversity, the game can barely be played by an adult, and a patient one at that.