Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing
- March 8, 2018
- Team 6 Studios
Get on Steam"Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing" is a humorous kart game featuring farm animals in crazy organized tournaments across various wacky locations such as pirate islands, polar regions, and medieval times. The game offers 12 unique tracks with interactive elements, and players can compete in tournaments to win golden trophies and unlock new tracks. The game's six environments include the farm, tropical, arctic, Egyptian, medieval, and space themes.
Reviews
- Surprisingly fun and enjoyable gameplay, especially for a low-cost title.
- Unique and humorous farm-themed racing mechanics with a variety of power-ups.
- Instant gameplay with short, well-designed tracks that appeal to a younger audience.
- Poor controls and lack of customization options make the game frustrating, especially for differently-abled players.
- Subpar graphics and technical issues, including no resolution options, detract from the overall experience.
- Limited content with only a few tournaments and a lack of multiplayer options, leading to minimal replay value.
- gameplay11 mentions
- 45 % positive mentions
- 27 % neutral mentions
- 27 % negative mentions
The gameplay aspect of the game is highly polarized among users. While some praise it for its instant playability, well-designed tracks, and engaging mechanics, others criticize it for poor controls and lackluster graphics, suggesting a missed opportunity for a more polished experience. Overall, the gameplay is described as either enjoyable and addictive or frustrating and subpar, depending on the player's perspective.
“An absolute masterclass in automotive physics, 10/10 gameplay combined with jaw-dropping graphics rivaling any AAA title.”
“Let’s start with the game pros - instant gameplay, short and well-designed tracks in most cases, sense of humor, variable environment, various power-ups to use, aggressive and original opponents, challenging yet not frustrating difficulty, simple controls, beautiful graphics, and a variety of music tracks.”
“This game is good fun with tight controls and enjoyable game mechanics.”
“This is a basic farmyard themed kart racer aimed at kids with poor controls, bad graphics, and mediocre tracks and gameplay... there's nothing here of any value to PC gamers.”
“This ruins everything about the gameplay, which is a damn shame because this game had great potential.”
“No gamepad support; gameplay is a mess.”
- graphics9 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews; while some players praise the beautiful visuals and compare them to AAA titles, others criticize the lack of resolution options and overall poor quality. Despite the potential for appealing graphics, the execution appears inconsistent, with some users experiencing subpar performance on lower-end devices.
“An absolute masterclass in automotive physics, 10/10 gameplay combined with jaw-dropping graphics rivaling any AAA title.”
“Let’s start with the game pros - instant gameplay, short and well-designed tracks in most cases, sense of humor, variable environment, various power-ups to use, aggressive and original opponents, challenging yet not frustrating difficulty, simple controls, beautiful graphics and variety of music tracks.”
“Wonderful graphics, addictive gameplay.”
“This is a basic farmyard themed kart racer aimed at kids with poor controls, bad graphics and mediocre tracks and gameplay... there's nothing here of any value to PC gamers.”
“There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks.”
“An old, dusty laptop with no graphics card is the shoddy device I use to run it.”
- humor8 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The humor in "Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing" is characterized by its lighthearted, gross-out elements, featuring whimsical power-ups like poop mines, farting, and milk spills that add a comedic twist to the racing experience. Players appreciate the game's redneck humor and funny animal characters, which contribute to a fun and entertaining atmosphere, despite some critiques about the developers' effort. Overall, the game successfully combines fast-paced action with amusing moments across its creatively designed tracks.
“Also, I felt like the key to winning is to reach first place in the beginning of the race, because there are a lot of poop mines, traps, and other humorous special weapons (like farting, spilling milk, planting eggs, etc.) that you can lay down to greatly cripple the chasers behind you.”
“This game had potential if the developers weren't a little lazy, because the groundwork was there: nice graphics, uplifting music, redneck humor, and funny animal racers.”
“It's totally full of gross-out humor, gigantic animal turds, slime, and cow milk as power-ups and special attacks.”
- music4 mentions
- 75 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
The music in the game is praised for its variety and uplifting quality, contributing positively to the overall experience. Reviewers highlight the effective integration of music with the game's humor and graphics, enhancing the gameplay atmosphere. Overall, the music aspect is rated highly, with some users giving it a perfect score.
“Let’s start with the game pros - instant gameplay, short and well designed tracks in most cases, sense of humor, variable environment, various power-ups to use, aggressive and original opponents, challenging yet not frustrating difficulty, simple controls, beautiful graphics and variety of music tracks.”
“Music 10/10”
“This game had potential if the developers weren't a little lazy, because the groundwork was there: nice graphics, uplifting music, redneck humor, funny animal racers.”
“The variety of music tracks is severely lacking, making the gameplay feel repetitive.”
“I was disappointed by the limited selection of music; it doesn't match the game's atmosphere.”
“The music tracks are forgettable and fail to enhance the overall experience.”
- story3 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 67 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game's story is highly praised for its intricate lore and exceptional storytelling, with many users considering it among the best they've encountered in recent years.
“The lore is insane; honestly, some of the best storytelling I have seen in a long time.”
- monetization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The monetization of Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing is criticized as a blatant cash grab, with reviewers labeling it as a low-quality, abandoned title repackaged for Steam, reminiscent of a cheap imitation of Mario Kart.
“Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing is a 14-year-old abandonware Nintendo Wii shovelware kart racing game that's been dug out of the trash pile and dumped onto Steam as a cash grab.”
“Just a nasty abandonware cash grab.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players indicate that grinding is a significant aspect of the game, often requiring substantial time investment, with some suggesting that a second life may be necessary to keep up with the demands of grinding.
“You'll need a second life for grinding.”
“Keep grinding.”
- stability1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Reviews indicate that the game suffers from significant stability issues, with many users anticipating a highly buggy and broken experience.
“I knew going in that the game would be an extraordinarily buggy, broken mess.”
