Kart racing games are nothing new but it's rare that one comes out that can compare with the high standards that Nintendo set with its Mario Kart franchise. A little-known game development studio is hoping to meet or exceed those standards with the impressive-seeming Jimmie Johnson's Anything With an Engine.
The game is actually the brain-child of NASCAR racer Jimmie Johnson. Johnson, who is a gamer himself, wanted to build a fun racing game that he and his buddies (both NASCAR and not) could enjoy. It's from that inspiration that Anything With an Engine became real.
According to Bryan May, the Sports Director at KXTV News10, many of today's NASCAR drivers like to play kart racing video games between actual races. If that's the case, then it's no wonder that Autumn Games and Konami have published Jimmy Johnson's Anything with an Engine -- a kart racing game as envisioned by the NASCAR driver himself.
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That's a huge ass update.
Shank 2! The multiplayer is like Smash Bros. Melee. So awesome.
That sounds great...Shank 2 and Free Simpsons Arcade. Hmmm sounds like a win-win week
Gotham City Impostors for me... this game has gotten little coverage considering the beta is stupid fun.
Download the BINARY DOMAIN demo from the Japanese ps store, very good!! Didn't even know about it 'till yesterday.
Game Chronicles - When I first got the email asking me to review Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With An Engine, I was told it was a kart racing game. That peaked my interest. I love racing go-karts. Gran Turismo 5 is my favorite racing game, mostly because it has realistic kart racing. Immediately I imagined that paying a high profile driver like Jimmie Johnson to be their cover guy must mean he was going back to his roots and endorsing a great realistic kart racing game. I was looking forward to some time behind my Logitech racing wheel.
The game quality might get up there with Mario Kart, but it's incredibly hard to measure up to name recognition like that. Especially when your game's name is "Anything With an Engine". It's not going to be that easy to remember, I'm sure.
FAST on wiiware or soon to be on wiiware is looking better graphically then this so u have been beat sorry by shinnen