Motorama

About Motorama

Motorama is a single player racing game. It was developed by 251 Games and was released on November 20, 2014. It received negative reviews from players.

Go back in time and experience “The Fabulous Fifties” in a game that relives the period, vehicles and street races of the legendary 50´s films. Customize your car and compete in 8 different race modes, through five completely different 50´s themed areas and become the King of the Road! For many years, street racings have been popular around Sierra Lake, one of California’s most famous cities. Fla…

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33%Audience ScoreBased on 159 reviews

graphics11 positive mentions

music18 negative mentions

Enjoyable for fans of classic 50s and 60s cars with a decent variety of vintage vehicles and customization options.
Relaxing arcade-style racing experience with a short and completable career mode suitable for achievement hunters.
Atmosphere and theme capture the era well, with a nostalgic vibe and some charm despite flaws.

Poor and inconsistent driving physics with buggy, unbalanced AI that can cheat by passing through traffic.
Numerous bugs and technical issues including frequent crashes, graphical glitches, broken UI controls, repetitive music, and sound problems.
Lack of polish and content depth, including limited tracks, repetitive gameplay, missing features (e.g., no damage model, no multiplayer), and unfair price for the quality.

music
69 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
12% positive mentions, 62% neutral mentions, 26% negative mentions
The music in the game is widely criticized for being repetitive, consisting mostly of a single track that loops incessantly with glitchy and abrupt restarts. Volume controls are buggy, often resetting after races and forcing players to mute constantly. While era-fitting, the soundtrack quickly becomes annoying and detracts from the overall experience.
- “The music was good but lacked variety, and it would often cut abruptly and restart in a jarring manner too often.”
- “Great tracks, cool cars with performance/visual upgrades, and a nice 60's rock soundtrack, but that song is the only one.”
- “I really enjoyed the era-influenced art and music, although I wish there were a few more tracks available.”
- “The soundtrack consists of 1 song that you will hear constantly on loop and it may just drive you insane.”
- “You can turn off background music, but only for one race; after each race music restarts and you have to go back a few steps to turn it off again.”
- “The music is era fitting, but gets repetitive fast and the volume control is utterly bugged and resets to max upon race completion, which is frankly infuriating, so I ended up muting the game altogether.”
graphics
45 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
24% positive mentions, 56% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions
The game's graphics are generally criticized for being outdated, buggy, and poorly optimized, with frequent texture flickering, disappearing details, and visual glitches detracting from the experience. While some users find the visuals functional or decent for a Unity-based indie title, many note a significant gap between in-game graphics and promotional screenshots, describing the overall quality as mediocre or closer to older generation games.
- “Graphically, the game looks quite nice, even though there are better looking racing games out there.”
- “Graphics are good and cars are very detailed.”
- “In addition to that, both visuals and performance of the cars can be customized.”
- “Visuals are awful, the store screenshots have clearly been photoshopped as the game looks closer to a budget title released in 2005-08 even when run on highest settings.”
- “The graphics are nothing special, but reasonable, and sadly, littered with bugs - seizure inducing texture blinking, car textures disappearing or blinking and the occasional stuttering are a common sight.”
- “There has been some graphical bugs in the form of cars or terrain flickering, or drivers floating in the air, and even unsee-able maps that render the game unplayable at times.”
gameplay
23 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
13% positive mentions, 65% neutral mentions, 22% negative mentions
The gameplay is widely criticized for poor controls, numerous bugs, repetitive mechanics, and frustrating AI behavior, making progression and car handling difficult and unbalanced. While some players appreciate the upgrading system and drifting mechanics, overall the experience is marred by lack of variety, unfair challenges, and technical issues.
- “From the gameplay, I can say that this game was leaning towards a simulation racing game (driving feels more simulation than arcade). The cars are hard to control (you will see the AI struggling to maintain control during races), but after upgrading your cars, it gets a bit easier to handle. Also, the AI cars drive through other cars like it's nothing (it's like cheating). The price of the cars is too high.”
- “You race, you get achievements, you get money to upgrade the mechanics or customize the look of your car.”
- “The gameplay is a lot of fun and it is keyboard/controller style gaming. Drifting is fun and the tracks are rather large, offering plenty of powersliding room. Lots of upgrades can be done for performance and there are visual upgrades as well, though they are a little limited.”
- “The controls are bad, there's no gameplay variety, the singular song that plays on loop and never changes is really annoying.”
- “They tried to integrate a drifting mechanic for the car but you cannot trigger it by turning the steering wheel and using brakes; it seems to auto trigger at a certain speed when the least amount of turning occurs, and then the car becomes a bit of a mess to control.”
- “From the gameplay I can say that this game was going towards a simulation racing game (driving feels more simulation than arcade). The cars are hard to control (you will see the AI struggling to maintain control during races), but after upgrading your cars it gets a bit easier to handle. Also, the AI cars drive into other cars like it's nothing (it's like cheating), and the price of the cars is too high.”
optimization
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18% positive mentions, 64% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions
The optimization is mixed, with performance customization and upgrades available but sometimes unbalanced in cost and impact. Graphically, the game suffers from bugs like texture flickering and lacks advanced features such as anisotropic filtering, leading to occasional stuttering and visual issues. While gameplay runs reasonably, driving over road cuts and other surfaces is not well optimized, affecting the overall smoothness.
- “There is lots of upgrading to do on each car both in the performance area and in the visual area, leaving a lot of customizing and time spent in the garage.”
- “Vehicles are presented as having four different performance characteristics: acceleration, speed, handling and grip.”
- “There are eight ways to increase the performance of each vehicle: carburetor, supercharger, engine, torsion bars, transmissions, suspensions, brakes and tires.”
- “The graphics are nothing special, but reasonable, and sadly, littered with bugs - seizure-inducing texture blinking, car textures disappearing or blinking, and occasional stuttering are common.”
- “Changes cost in-game money earned in races, but for some reason have escalating prices, despite not offering a performance benefit, and the most expensive part is not necessarily the best looking.”
- “Performance upgrades plus the cost of purchasing new vehicles do not balance.”
stability
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game suffers from frequent bugs, glitches, and graphical issues such as flickering shadows and frame drops, which often disrupt gameplay and cause crashes. In-game features like controls, AI behavior, and customization options are also affected by stability problems, leading to a frustrating experience for many players. Overall, stability is a significant concern, with numerous reports warning against purchase due to its buggy and unstable nature.
- “The controls aren't very intuitive, the AI opponents are bad, there are weird graphical glitches in some levels that make the shadows flicker constantly, some in-game options just don't work (for example, no matter how many rims I unlocked, it was impossible to select any of them for my vehicle), and at one point I got completely stuck on the side of a course, forcing me to restart the race.”
- “The game is full of glitches and bugs: flickering textures, frame drops in some areas of the map, can't select rims, sound goes back in the menu even after you mute the game, AI cars struggle to race normally, cars get stuck in invisible obstacles, AI cars become overpowered even with your upgraded car.”
- “Quite buggy, game crashes a few times.”
story
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions
The game's story is minimal, primarily centered around racing rivals with no significant plot or campaign. Some reviews note a discrepancy in the number of rivals advertised versus those present, and overall, the story is considered weak or nearly nonexistent. However, mission variety adds some engagement despite the lack of narrative depth.
- “Races bring along story too.”
- “The different types of missions are done very well.”
- “There isn’t much in the way of story, but the game is fun and if you enjoy racing games you should consider picking it up.”
- “There is no actual plot; you're just a man who loves racing and your main objective is to beat your rivals. The store shows 10 rivals (each with 5 races), but there are actually only 5 rivals.”
- “There is no real story or campaign.”
- “There isn’t much in the way of story and the music can be annoying; however, the game is fun if you enjoy racing games.”
grinding
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game features excessive and tedious grinding, requiring major time investment to earn in-game currency for upgrades, which detracts from the overall experience. This outdated grind, combined with balance issues, makes progression slow and boring for many players.
- “Its grindy and outdated, just go play something else.”
- “Major amounts of money grinding is required to progress and this is always a bad sign.”
- “Racing through the game takes about 2-3 hours, unfortunately grinding the cash for upgrades takes a lot longer and is simply boring.”
humor
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The humor in the game is largely unintentional, stemming from its buggy mechanics, inconsistent controls, and poor AI that leads to chaotic and amusing race events. Players find the unpredictable glitches and rival interactions funny, adding a quirky charm despite the game's flaws.
- “The AI is so terrible that the game becomes unintentionally funny, as the cars continuously drive into each other.”
- “Is very funny to see how competitors (race events) fight pushing each other out of the path or how they make mistakes.”
- “I noticed the issue would get worse every time I restarted the race, but I simultaneously found the issue increasingly hilarious.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The monetization is criticized for being misleading and of poor quality, resembling asset flip or cash grab tactics despite lacking clear evidence of asset theft. Additionally, advertisements exaggerate content, such as claiming more vehicles than actually available, leading to user disappointment.
- “My main disappointment was from the advertisement clips on YouTube for the game saying "25 sixties cars"... well, there are only 15 game cars you can drive in this game.”
- “Definitely one of the worst games I've seen in the categories of "not obviously an indie game" and "not obviously an asset flip cash grab".”
- “There's no evidence that the other game assets are just ripped off someone else, so we need to give the benefit of the doubt... regardless, asset flip or not, the quality here is indistinguishable from many asset flip/cash grab scams, and that's a problem in itself.”
atmosphere
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game's atmosphere effectively captures the lighthearted, nostalgic feel of the 1950s rock & roll era, creating a relaxed and joyous experience reminiscent of "American Graffiti." However, some players feel it falls short of replicating the charm of classic titles like Street Rod, and bugs occasionally detract from the overall mood.
- “50's cars, the typical rock & roll era's atmosphere.”
- “Just like American Graffiti, which doesn't have a strict plot but focuses mostly on atmosphere, the game is great for lighthearted, almost therapeutic play without much tension, and has a feel of lightness, happiness, and light euphoria.”
- “The game is similar to Street Rod in many ways and evokes a nostalgic atmosphere reminiscent of that classic game.”
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Users did not highlight any significant emotional impact in their experience, instead focusing on the near-perfect collision avoidance of AI vehicles, which may detract from dramatic or emotional moments in gameplay.