Basically you’ll just be smashing on the acceleration and attempting to avoid various objects that blend into the background. Actually controlling your character in the various races is simple enough though: accelerating can be done with either the X-button or by pressing up on the D-pad (depending on race type) and maneuvering is limited to swerving left and right. To add to the chaos, you’ll be racing against a handful of other insect opponents who you’ll be constantly bumping into, slowing the pace of the game down considerably. The courses in Antz, which are comprised of everyday outdoor locations, like the backyard, are generic and, more often than not, so dubiously rendered that you’ll often find yourself unsure as to what direction you need to turn or whether the “road” ahead of you is, in fact, part of the track or just an invisible wall. It’s all or nothing, and the obvious lack of attention to depth in this regard is deplorable. While this may initially sound somewhat interesting, the whole ranking system is quickly thrown to the curbside since it makes no difference whatsoever how highly you are ranked, because unless you come in first place on every race you won’t be able to compete in the championship race. Upon completion of each race you will be given a certain amount of points based on how well you did, the more points you accumulate the higher ranked you will become. The variety of racing methods is somewhat redeeming, aside from the aforementioned methods of transportation you can also ride on flying bugs, makeshift lawn-item vehicles, and get down with some cool boarding via an “ant-made” snowboard. You simply choose to play as either Z or Bala (four more characters can be unlocked) and begin a set of racing courses that range from foot-based frolics to the finish line, to racing atop various bugs. In stark contrast to the movie on which this game is based, Extreme Racing has virtually no plot whatsoever. Oh well, there’s always Antz Extreme Volleyball, right? Some voice-clips or any amount of dialogue might have helped to alleviate the frustrating redundancy of the sloppy game play mechanics and cookie-cutter courses. Too bad the developers didn’t use any elements from the film outside of the character aesthetics. Nevertheless, it’s here, it’s weird, and PS2 fans everywhere can now get a taste of kart racing as portrayed by the cast of a relatively aged series based on introspective insects. So, like, its Antz, with racing … is it just me here or does the combination of the words “Antz” and “Extreme Racing” seem strange to anybody else? Didn’t Antz come out in theatres, like, over four years ago? How desperate does a publisher have to be to resurrect a half-decade-old franchise that was never really that popular to begin with, and couple it with something as cliché as “extreme racing”? It boggles the mind. Retrieved 8 December 2019.Antz Extreme Racing, huh? Interesting. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. ^ "Antz Extreme Racing for PlayStation 2 Reviews".Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. ^ "Antz Extreme Racing for PlayStation 2".Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. ^ "Antz Extreme Racing for Xbox Reviews".Archived from the original on 14 November 2014. IGN 's Ivan Sulic and GameSpy's Michael Nam both criticized the game for its lacking personality and repetitive gameplay and for offering nothing new to the racing game genre. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox version 43.86% and 35/100 and the PlayStation 2 version 41.79% and 31/100. Reception Īntz Extreme Racing received negative reviews. The game features both a single-player and multiplayer mode the split screen multiplayer mode supports up to four players. Gameplay Īntz Extreme Racing is set in each of the four temperate seasons and has four different types of races: driving, flying on the backs of insects, running, and snowboarding or surfing. The Game Boy Advance version of Antz Extreme Racing was developed by Magic Pockets and released on 20 November 2002. The game was released in 2002 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2. The game is based on the 1998 DreamWorks Animation film Antz. Antz Extreme Racing is a 2002 racing video game developed by Supersonic Software and published by Empire Interactive.
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