![]() Just like the movie’s 2011 sequel, the follow-up to the first Cars video game had an international flavour to it. Cars: The Video Game proved to be a success and it was soon followed by a sequel which released a year later, called Cars Mater-National Championship. So there’s Owen Wilson as McQueen, Larry the Cable Guy as Mater and Paul Newman as Doc Hudson.īy the end of the game, McQueen has won his first Piston Cup and lines it up alongside all of Doc’s. It’s also worth noting that the majority of the voice cast of the movie returned for the game. The aim of the game is to compete in Piston Cup races around the country to win the Piston Cup. Whether it’s driving on two wheels, jumping, drifting or backwards driving, the game offers it all. They can interact with other characters or compete in street races and other game modes. ![]() Players can drive through Radiator Springs in an open world setting. The player can drive McQueen around an open world Radiator Springs and other parts of Carburetor County in the vein of Need for Speed, Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club. The game starts just as McQueen begins his training for the season. McQueen was about to win the previous year until Chick Hicks punted The King into an airborne spin and McQueen stopped to push Weathers, so he didn’t suffer the same fate as Doc Hudson. The first in the series of games is Cars: The Video Game, which picks up the year after McQueen’s first season in the Piston Cup. Dubbed the Hudson Hornet, he was a 3-time champion whose career ended after a terrible wreck over 50 years prior, and has been hiding away from the racing world ever since. McQueen also meets Doc Hudson, the town judge and doctor who just so happens to be a former Piston Cup racer. Meeting the locals, McQueen begins to learn the value of humility, community, putting others before himself and appreciating life at a slower pace.ĭuring his time there, he befriends a hillbilly rusty tow truck named Mater and falls in love with former LA hot-shot attorney Sally Carrera. He ends up in a rundown desert town called Radiator Springs, where he is made to fix a road he unintentionally destroyed. In McQueen’s eagerness and selfish ways, he pushes his transporter Mack to travel all night long and is separated from him as a result. The organisers arrange for a tiebreaker race for the following week. McQueen ignores calls from his crew to take new tyres and, just as he’s about to win in very convincing fashion, his rear tyres burst and both Weathers and Hicks cross the line with McQueen in a dead heat. Heading into the final round, all three are tied for the lead. ![]() The movie follows young hotshot rookie racecar Lightning McQueen as he competes in his first season of the Piston Cup Racing Series against the likes of legend Strip ‘The King’ Weathers and perennial runner-up Chick Hicks. If not, let’s bring the uninitiated up to speed. It’s fair to say that a sizeable portion of OverTake readers may have grown up with the Cars franchise. With the upcoming release of the streaming series Cars on the Road, let’s take a road trip down memory lane and look at the three games that spawned from the release of the first Cars movie. Watch the trailer for Disney and Cars on the Road and start streaming the Original series, a #DisneyPlusDay premiere, September 8 on /圆hwgW0DqL- Disney August 1, 2022 In fact there was not just one, but two additional games before the Cars movie sequel even released. Another, though, is the 2006 video game of the Disney Pixar movie Cars. But it isn’t impossible to make a good movie tie-in game, with Goldeneye often cited as the gold-standard. Some examples include the Spider-Man games by Insomniac and the Mad Max game which released a few months after Fury Road. Which is why the best games from franchises that are typically seen on the silver screen tend to be standalone titles that were released outside of any marketing campaign for a movie. That, however, is also the reason they so often turn out terribly, due to the lack of time they have to develop the game. This has been a common practice over the years to capitalise on the hype of the movie, and make as much money as possible. The likes of E.T., The Matrix and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 all had game adaptations that came out to coincide with the theatrical release. ![]() Typically when it comes to video games that are tie-ins for movies, they’re a hot mess. In the leadup to the new streaming series Cars on the Road, let’s revisit the surprisingly good Cars video game trilogy.
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