Speaking of which, the AI controlled opponents are relentless and will take any chance they get to make your life miserable. This is usually where the other guys fail, and while Beach Buggy Racing does offer an all-too-familiar track selection, like volcanoes, forests, and snowy locales, they’re all relatively well designed and had me cursing my opponents all the way to the finish line. There’s a pleasant variety within the dozen tracks that are available as well, and if Mario Kart taught us anything, it’s that track design is extremely important. “…the AI controlled opponents are relentless and will take any chance they get to make your life miserable.”

I enjoyed playing around with each of the characters and felt their own respective power-ups were a neat feature that helped the game stand apart from other kart racers. There’s skeletal pirates, creepy dude’s in bunny suits, and Mexican luchadores to play with, and each racer has their own unique power-up that can be used once per race–like using a UFO to switch places with the person in front of you, or becoming a ghost to speed through nearby racers untouched. Vector Unit’s kart racer offers a ton of upgrades and racers to unlock throughout its somewhat punishing career mode and daily challenges. While some games fail in their transition over from the mobile platform, this one is actually pretty solid the graphics aren’t gag-inducing, and provide a decent upscale on the Xbox One, and while the once touch-based controls can feel a bit floaty at times, it only took a few races to get acclimated. Beach Buggy Racing on Xbox One lies somewhere in the middle, and for a developer that primarily focuses on mobile games, that’s in no way a bad thing.īeach Buggy Racing is Vector Unit’s 2nd mobile-to-console port on Xbox One, following the hydro-jet racer Riptide GP2 (which I never actually played). Mario and his pals have dominated the kart racing scene for as long as we can remember, and while other games have tried to duplicate its magic by mimicking the formula in its simplest form, very few have managed to offer something different.

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