HonestGamers - honestgamer's PixelJunk Racers: 2nd Lap review

bwv_639 Nov 27, 2021

It is quite dispiriting that some kinds of games (and 2D racers, specially top-down-viewed ones, are one of those) have come to be seen as intrinsically inferior, and deserving only to be budget projects.

2D football games, and generally speaking not-complex sports games, fall into this unlucky set.

Too bad, because they'd have the potential to be enormously entertaining and pleasurable to play (easily more so than the 3D complex games representing the same sports) — in the age where online multiplayer is an easy-to-offer option.

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Jason Venter Staff Nov 27, 2021

Yeah, I agree. This game had a lot of attention put into most of the right areas, too. So it was especially disappointing that the end result didn't work well for me when a couple of small changes could have made it great for someone like me. This feels almost more like an action/puzzle game than it does a proper racing game.

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