No personality and bad design
The overall structure of the game is its Championship mode. Here you'll race through twenty awesome-named tracks like “Gran ToWrismo”, Viewtiful TOW, and “Guns & races”. No, there aren't any guns in this game, just weak-ass power-ups. TOW also has an online component that works but you'll be hard-pressed to find other players.
TOW's fundamental issue aside from having no personality is the tracks themselves. My focus was fighting the environment itself and not the other racers. The tracks have little definition in terms of they don't make it clear on which direction to go. Other than that, I had a lot of issues getting stuck in the levels geometry. Also it's easy to straight-up fall from a ledge that will put you on the opposite side of the track. I found myself restarting races 5/6 laps in due to this problem.
I can't say anything nice about TOW aside from the game works, and wasting $10 on it is $10 less I could spend on bad things like hookers, drugs, and funding terrorism. I mean, the game looks ok. This genre is dead and I would love to see a return but Things on Wheels isn't the Trojan Horse. TOW feels a lot like a game that would be a free pre-installed game on a PC or some budget game from last generation. Load Inc's latest is as generic as they come.
Steven
