Everything about Cars: Race-O-Rama seems designed simply to let the game get by with a bare minimum of effort and charm. It is the very definition of an average game, and does nothing to pay homage to the original movie, merely taking up six times the shelf space it should and damning any of the current platforms to yet another throwaway licensed game that simply wasn't needed.
Presentation - 6.0
Graphics - 7.5
Sound - 5.0
Gameplay - 5.0
Lasting Appeal - 5.0
Overall -
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "There are few brands out there that have anything like the appeal and recognition of Disney. Thanks to decades of beautiful and critically acclaimed animated films, the company is a household name that has expanded beyond just movies to include a variety of other ventures, including videogames. Disney has also grown its lineup considerably in recent years by acquiring Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars (although for the purposes of this article, I’ll only be covering Disney/Pixar output).
Thanks to their broad audience, Disney games usually show up on every viable platform out there, meaning that despite the brand’s affinity with Nintendo’s younger-skewing audience, both the PSP and Vita received a number of titles throughout their lives. Some of this was through Disney's own developer/publisher (Disney Interactive Studios), but the firm also licensed out its IPs for other companies to try their hand at – with somewhat mixed results."
DISNEYLAND RESORT – New technology innovations have allowed the Walt Disney Imagineers to expand the Disneyland Resort in new ways with Cars Land. The Radiator Springs Racers ride is like living through a Cars video game experience. Disney celebrated the grand opening of the new expansion, which cost a reported $1.1 billion, with a VIP premiere that featured Lightning McQueen and Mater from the Disney●Pixar movie Cars, voice actors from the movie that inspired the land and a grand finale with fireworks that lit up the expansive mountain range in Cars Land.
Boosty from Daily Joystick writes; "Back when the original Cars game was released along side the movie release, many thought that it was another poor adaptation of the movie to game stigma that plagues these types of games releases. However, Cars was actually pretty decent in hindsight compared to what followed. Cars Mater National was a step backwards and now, Cars: Race-O-Rama takes another two steps back. Further, why has THQ even bothered to release more Cars games given there is no movie to go alongside it?"
