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SlotZ Racer
By The Impulsive Downloader | February 4, 2009
Category: Games
Released: January 14, 2009
Company: Freeverse
Version: 1.1
Price: $2.99
Rating: 9 out of 10
Freeverse is one of those software companies that just makes quality shit — and I mean “shit” in the most endearing way. Their games are addictive and can kill a lot of time. How much depends on your obsessive-compulsive nature. Their latest game for the iPhone, SlotZ Racer, is good enough to make me forget that they capitalized the Z at the end of the misspelled “SlotZ.”
If you’ve never raced slot cars, you’re probably not a child of the 1980s and don’t have memories of Michael Jackson not being a pedophile. If you have, you know it takes a little while to get used to timing your acceleration so you don’t end up speeding off the track more times than a drunk Lindsay Lohan. The same learning curve is found with SlotZ Racer. The controls are just as simple as actual slot cars. There’s no steering. It’s just you and an acceleration button on the lower right hand corner that you press like the asshole who brings in one of those talking Staples Easy Buttons to work and presses it whenever someone walks by to show off that cheap Chinese-made toy that lost its novelty in 2006.
In SlotZ Racer, you can run a quick race or you can choose to participate in a championship, which is a series of races that help you unlock new cars and tracks. You can play by yourself or race with three other friends willing to invade each other’s personal spaces because you will all be squeezing together to use and touch the same screen. Gameplay is a lot of fun and gets more exciting as you unlock new tracks that look like art exhibits gone wild.
Speaking of tracks gone wild, there’s also a track designer that allows you to make your own virtual asphalt creation. There are a lot of option to choose from, like adding overpasses and buildings, but the small screen makes it frustrating to see how your creation is developing. Zooming out using the multitouch controls is kind of buggy, causing it to zoom out to a blank part of the screen instead of focusing on the track, but I’m sure that will get fixed in an update.
SlotZ Racer is worth the $2.99 I paid for it. It’s a game that can provide a quick moment of entertainment while waiting in line at the bank or a much longer moment when you find yourself waiting in line at the DMV.
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