![]() Summary: Mini Motor Racing X explodes onto Nintendo Switch™ with local split screen and online multiplayer high-octane racing action. ![]() For more on how we arrived at this score, check out our review guidelines. Mini Motor Racing X is available on Oculus Rift, Quest and PSVR for $24.99. Like a box of Micro Machines itself, Mini Motor Racing X helps pass the time, but when something shinier comes along it will soon be forgotten. But don’t expect anything more than a game that does a decent job imitating its influences, with little ambition to surpass them. Thanks to a generous amount of options and a welcome bit of structure, Mini Motor Racing X is an easy recommendation in the middle of a slow time for VR releases, especially when it so quickly and efficiently demonstrates just how cool VR can be on a base level. The hyper-generic soundtrack, though, sounds like it was hastily scavenged from a YouTube advert. There’s real novelty to seeing friends hop and wave around in multiplayer, especially when you switch up racing styles and suddenly discover your giant-sized competition staring down at you. Ant-sized birds hover below in god mode, and oceans are filled with concerningly adorable sharks. Still, it’s a vibrant little game with charming VR touches. Bumper Ball is, you guessed it, a Rocket League clone for VR that hits the same notes. That sentiment stretches to other modes, too. Tracing a toy car around the map entertains and unlockables encourage you to keep on trucking, but it never ascends above a decent way to spend time between more exciting VR releases. A litany of options and VR support doesn’t disguise what is simply an adequate racer designed to kill time (notably, the Mini Motor series was born on mobile) as opposed to something more spectacular. If that’s you, then you’ll find it a fun way to play, but others won’t be missing out too much.īut that’s just it – it’s all expected. But its in-car mode is incredibly intense and only for the more sturdy of VR users. In god-mode, Mini Motor Racing X causes no comfort issues at all. The satisfaction you’ve come to know and love from the genre is all here and accounted for. As with other rock-solid isometric racers, it finds its flow in the drifty corners tough to angle but addictive and rewarding to master, especially when paired with a last-moment boost to send you soaring into first place. Taken more seriously, Mini Motor X is a perfunctory piece of VR racing. Still, much of the fun here is in the toybox experimentation switching to cockpit view and swerving around the tracks using a steering wheel is about as delightful as something that will make you want to throw up in seconds can possibly be (seriously, Teacup Rides have nothing on this). You can also play the game with a virtual RC car controller and mimicking steering a wheel, and they’re both adorable options, but stick input is necessary to perfect lap times. It’s as smooth to play as can be expected in the button-input mode, too. Plus the multiplayer ranges from competitive modes to even tackling the campaign together with a friend. Mini Motor X comes with a full garage of differently-specced vehicles, a career mode that spans multiple difficulties and classic (no powerups) and arcade (powerups!) gameplay, plus cash to upgrade your ride and cosmetic items to unlock. ![]() If you were to judge this by the regular box tickers, it’d be full marks. Mini Motor Racing X is as versatile and generous a VR game you’ll find it’s just lacking a little spark to seal the deal. ![]() Whatever your preference, you’ll find more than enough game here, with a lengthy career mode that supports multiple ways to play. Mini Motor X can be the game you want it to be either a nostalgic love letter to party games of past, or you can take the driver’s seat for a slightly more authentic touch (if you can stomach it). It’s enough to rekindle an early VR giddiness that often feels lost in today’s grander adventures, and developer Binary Mill capitalizes on that. There’s something about Mini Motor Racing X’s Micro Machines-inspired camera view - in which players tower over Scalextric-sized tracks - that really pops inside a headset, more than you may have felt in a while. If you want to communicate the amazing effects of VR to someone in just a few seconds, make them a giant. ![]()
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