Super Toy Cars will remind you of Micro Machines and Mario Kart from the beginning of the game. The game also brings a lot to the table, including night and rain racing. Watch out Forza Motorsport 6! While Super Toy Cars wasn’t made to compete with the likes of Forza, it sure does have many features.
My first impressions of the game were not good. It crashed when I started the game. You may notice that the graphics are questionable, but they aren’t supposed to be realistic in any way, you’re playing with toy cars after all. This game is clearly aimed towards a younger audience, so I gave the controller to my 8-year old brother, and then asked for his opinions.
He said, “Super Toy Car is a fun game for people like, I don’t know, 13 or under? Maybe. It has lots of potential in it. Sometimes you drift when you don’t want to. It’s sort of glitchy, at some points. It kind of reminds me of Mario Kart. It’s kind of like Forza 6 or 5 or 4 with the controls. You can’t change your view. There are lots of races like you can do mines, there’s elimination, and you can do racing normally. The graphics are a little out there. There are many cars, fake cars. Some are based on real cars but they are fake. The music feels a little calming and relaxing. Watch out for those mines!”
The game consists of 16 cars, 12 tracks, and 48 events. There are 3 variations of each track. “Easy” is just a loop. “Medium” is a figure-8, and “hard” is just a mishmash of lines. Career Mode will have set races per “Episode.” Each time you finish a race, you get points, maximum 10 points per race. You also need a certain amount of points to finish an episode. Once you finish an episode, you get an achievement and move on to the next episode. The system works flawlessly. Game modes include regular races, elimination, time trials, and elimination with mines. The elimination with mines is my personal favorite.
While the cars are knock-offs of real-life cars, they are just toys. The engine sounds will give you a bad headache if you have them blaring at a loud volume. The car physics are surprisingly good, until you crash into the AI. Then things get messy. Speaking of the AI, they aren’t that smart and sometimes they try to run you off the track. There are many banking turns placed throughout different maps, they all have the same model and I suggest you avoid their left side. The left side of those turns will spin your car out and shoot it in the air.
Super Toy Cars has 4-player local multiplayer, which was lots of fun. Seriously, if you have more than one controller and a buddy or somebody who’d want to play. Just skip the career mode entirely. The multiplayer is tons of fun and reminds me most of Mario Kart. The single player however, can get a little boring at times.
Overall, Super Toy Cars is a very fun little game with some minor flaws. I suggest you go and pick it up as you finish reading this review. It’s great for times when you have nothing to do, or you’re bored.
Ali is a games journalist, Mobile and Tech Reporter at Wccftech. They contributed 51 articles to ICXM between 2015–2016, focused on game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: covers mobile hardware, telecoms, and consumer-tech news for Wccftech.