The Garage has engines, exhaust pipes, paint jobs or tyres to customise your ride for the race, you just have to figure out which of the stats is most important to you top speed, steering, drift or boost. If you visit the Garage, you can spend the slime coins that you picked up and earned during your races to use as currency to unlock new items for your kart. When challenges are completed, you can unlock new support characters or items like engines for your kart. Single-player mode gives you options to race in the Grand Prix, do a time trial or challenge mode. The tracks feature music from the shows and are based on the environments from the shows like Foodcourtia, the intergalactic food court from Invader Zim. Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 offers a large selection of tracks and play modes to check out, with three different speeds: Slow, Medium or Fast. Personally, I like the support character who gives you a boost after you are hit by an item, which makes it a lot less devastating if you are constantly getting hit. There is actually a lot of strategy that comes into play with your selections. Lil and Phil from Rugrats can throw mud pies at your opponents and Pearl from SpongeBob will give you a boost anytime you jump off a ramp. Each support character has their own unique abilities to assist you in the race.
You are not only choosing a driver, but also the chief, crew engineer and crew mechanic. There aren’t just the main characters for the driver, but where this game really differs from Mario Kart is having a whole race team to support you. That one is strange since they aren’t just converting a drawing to a character, but a real person to a cartoony 3D model. Though, I did just unlock the JoJo Siwa character.
The characters are all 3D versions of the hand-drawn characters that you know, but the artwork is done well, so they don’t look weird and off-putting. Man I love that show, definitely one of my favourites! There is Rocko from Rocko’s Modern Life, Tommy and all his baby friends from Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and especially Zim and Gir from Invader Zim.
Over the years, I have watched a lot of Nickelodeon shows, so when I saw all the characters that were available, I was very excited. I have never had a chance to play the first Nickelodeon racing game, so there were no expectations. So any time I play a kart racing game, it’s hard not to compare them against the high bar the Mario Kart games have set. Growing up in the ‘90s with only Nintendo consoles, I am very familiar with the Mario Kart series of games. Reviews // 16th Oct 2020 - 3 years ago // By Alana Dunitz Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix Review
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