Bomb battles especially are an exercise in frustration, as the opposing team only need to hold the bomb in your base for five seconds to win - and with your weapons being as crappy as they are in this mode, you can hit them as many times as you like, and you still won't manage to kill them. Battles, whether deathmatch, capture the flag, or bomb battles are made immensely awkward thanks to the short range of your weapons, the overly skiddy handling of your vehicle, and the incredible ability of the game's AI opponents. Whether against human opponents, or computer controlled foes, though, none of the modes here are that much fun. This is multiplayer capture the flag - but are they friend or foe?
Makes sense? Of course it doesn't - but then little about Micro Machines does.
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Of course, should you choose to play online, and end up playing entirely against AI players, you'll still earn XP - even though you could set up the exact same race offline and earn nothing. With just three modes to choose from, and with the game having nothing in the way of a meaningful single player mode, you wouldn't think this would be too hard - yet should you pick one of the two less popular modes (that's Battle and Elimination, rather than the main races), you'll likely find yourself playing against either a single human opponent, or entirely on your own, with AI opponents filling in the blanks. While it's not obviously labelled as such, choosing the Quick Play option will let you jump into an online game, as Micro Machines tries its best to find someone to pair you with. Somewhat stupidly, the only way to earn experience, and the only way to take part in the game's already poor progression system is to play online - and that's a game in itself. The only catch is, you can't actually earn experience by playing in single player - or even in local multiplayer, for that matter. It's a fairly standard set up - completing races will let you earn experience, earning experience will let you level up, and by levelling up, you'll unlock a new box, each packed with four bonus cosmetic items, with the idea being to play and collect them all. Instead, the entirety of the game's progression system actually revolves around unlockables, with that most irritating of phrases, the "loot box" making an appearance. Plenty of other brands make an appearance in game, too. There's no career mode to work your way through, no series of races to take part in, and no challenges to test your skills against - something which makes this an incredibly limited package for those who are playing on their own. While you can play on your own in either a Race, Battle (although only a bog standard deathmatch) or Elimination event, the game gives you absolutely no reason to do so. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that World Series has next to nothing in the way of a single player mode.
But the more you play, the more problems you'll discover, and the more Micro Machines will start to feel like it's lacking. There's even a bit of variety to the gameplay too, with standard races supplemented by a Battle mode, which sees you take on opponents in either a straight deathmatch, capture the flag, or bomb battle (get the bomb to the enemy base), while Elimination challenges you to be the last one left on screen - if you lag too far behind, you'll be deleted.
With support for four player local multiplayer (or up to a dozen players online), and a host of new, intricately themed tracks to burn rubber around, whether you're racing through a garden, jumping through a toaster, or skidding round a snooker table, everything here at least looks the part. If there's one thing we've learnt over the years with games, it's that appearances can often be rather deceiving - and that's certainly true with Micro Machines. Most of the track design is top notch, with loads of nice touches and details - even if it should be easier to tell where you're going
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