Speed racer the videogame is based on the racing world seen in speed racer the movie. But before you think this will be terrible like most movie tie-ins , you might be shock. The game doesn't follow the movie because this game is set after the movie. The key thing is that there is no story in this game , it's pure racing game with some car-fu ( a type of car melee attack like that of in f-zero). It's easy enough to think that F-zero is better , but currently there is no F-zero for the Wii. And this game comes damm close. It's quite a good looking , not as polished as Nintendo's games , but far better than most 3 party games out there. The combat and racing has depth , but play the tutorial first to get the most out of your racing experience. I giving this a 8.8. A little bit more length and polish , similar to what i thought of excite truck. Overall it's great fun with 20 cars , 4 class types and loads of championships e.g class 3 has 9 championships and each championships has 4-5 races , some courses are quite long. The courses are amazing and set in 5 different arenas/environments. There is also the usual time trails and single race mode. AI is tough and varied, never making a race feel the same twice , they also have a great ally and rival system , where you can make allies before a race for some extra help, just don't attack them in a race or they could become your rival. Even the AI will attack each other to give a more realistic feeling and this also helps cushion the blow with no online function, but this seems to be the case with most wii games and there is 2 player. There are cheat codes aswell online for fun things to do , like a monster truck and weird coloured version. Well i hope you enjoy the game and the movie.
Overall = 8.8
Gameplay = 9
Graphics = 8
Wii remote (how good the remote works)= 9
longtivity = 7.5
Age = 3+
Multiplayer (how good is it) offline = ( yet to be tested)
Originally written in 2013