There are hundreds of levels overall, spread over a dozen 3D worlds/tracks. Control of your buggy is either via tilting the phone or using touch controls, according to taste. And all tremendous fun, playing super-fluidly. And everything’s rendered fluidly in 3D at all times, though you’ll need at least an iPhone 5 – anything older and there are occasional pauses while the processor and graphics catch up. In many ways this takes its inspiration in look and play from Mario Kart 7 on the likes of the Wii, if you’ve played the beach track on that then you’ll know the drill – arcade buggy racing, with forgiving physics, power slides on sand, and occasional (outrageous) weapons. So why not throw in the odd throwing weapon or nitro canister – it’s not as if things have to be kept ‘real’ here! Kickstarting the top 5 and slightly contravening my own guidelines about gimmicks, I’m letting Beach Buggy Racing in because we’re already in a fantastical setting, a paradise island with exotic creatures, beautiful scenery and odd weather. So, as with my top 5 flight simulations, it’s best to clear a load of space on your iPhone, install and try each briefly (or rely on my opinions) and then pick a winner, the one that you enjoy the most, and only put your time and money into that one title. But this particular selection of games take the freemium concept to the next level, requiring a serious investment of money and (to be fair) of time in order to get the most from each. In this case, ‘freemium’, you’ll be familiar with the idea by now, in 2015. The emphasis here is on driving skills, raw speed, realism, and not on distraction!Īn even bigger note about the ‘F word’. A car racing game which involves flying cars, lasers, explosions, high speed collisions and impossible driving lines isn’t for me. One note to ultra-arcade gamers out there – I’m not like you. Luckily, I’ve done the hard work for you – in a variety of sub-genres, I whittled the hundreds down to a dozen and then finally to the five you’ll want to think about loading up.
Crude graphics, appalling gameplay, over-zealous freemium grabs, and so on. An ever-popular game genre, there are hundreds (literally) of car and driving titles for the iPhone and iPad, the vast majority of which are horribly flawed in one way or another.
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