The Karters 2: Turbo Charged

“I need some art direction, character design, and atmosphere. The original Crash Team Racing had atmosphere and vibes; the remake butchered it with the hideous bloom effects and generic graphics. This game appears to be trying to copy the remake instead of the original.”

“The most obvious difference between this $30 Unity game and MK are the visuals.”

“Since mods fix this entirely it's not a big deal, but the official characters for the game lack a consistent theme or aesthetic.”

“Great game, lots of content on the workshop to play with. The only problem I've got with this game is the original tracks and characters; they suck. The race track designs, especially, are horrendous. There's way too much clutter on the tracks, which doesn't make it fun or enjoyable. Whoever designed them needs to be fired. If I'm enjoying playing modded tracks more than the game's original tracks, that's a big problem. The music is hit or miss and pretty mid, to be honest. It needs to be revisited and recomposed.”

“Another issue is the music. I know not every soundtrack has to be a banger, but for a racing game, I feel like the songs should be a little more thrilling and exciting.”

“A few bugs, and the UI/music leave quite a bit to be desired, but overall a great time.”

“When CTR Nitro Fueled was released, I was hoping for a PC version to be released later down the line with better performance and some fixes to the terrible collision and invisible objects that constantly ruined the flow of Nitro Fueled for me.”

“Optimization is very rocky even on my RTX 4070 card, but it's a fun kart racer with tons of mods and it very much deserves your time if you love Crash Team Racing.”

“The gameplay is fun, but the game itself is plagued by poor optimization and cosmetic bloat.”

“This game also has mod support; you can play whoever you want in whatever vehicle you want, wherever. It gives a lot of replay value to a game already brimming with game modes, like this mode where you gather dominos to build bridges over bottomless pits.”

“A love letter to Crash Team Racing, this kart racer is designed around user-generated content, lending it infinite potential for replayability. Especially with its focus on local (up to 6 players!) and online multiplayer, and with its currently small but active community, there's lots of available characters and tracks to play on. Unfortunately, online races aren't always available due to the small community, but joining the official Discord could allow you to coordinate games with others.”

“Custom tracks and characters add so much replay value to a kart racer!”

“One day it will exceed CTR, and because of mods it may already, but the lack of a career/story does hold it back.”

“No story mode, but I'll keep waiting for it.”

“I know there's apparently a story mode in development, so unless the story can explain this away, it just remains inconsistent.”

“My only other major complaint with the game so far is that the character designs and overall presentation are incredibly bland to the point that it almost feels a little deceiving—like you wouldn't expect such freedom of movement and skill from a game with such honestly boring character designs.”

“Given that there are two characters of each theme, it makes it seem like the character designers wanted it both ways but end up making an inconsistent visual theme.”

“I don't like how much the character designs clash with each other, the lack of color options for karts, the items are all over the place and are not fun to use, the physics can feel unpolished at times, modding is very limited, the menus are clunky, and the preset system actively harms the character selection experience.”

“It is, however, a little bit buggy as of the time of writing; sometimes things get very janky.”

“There are occasional odd glitches (e.g., one time the race just never started even though all the racers were lined up; another time I fell off the track and the thing that puts you back on the track held me for like 30 seconds).”

“The game stutters sometimes, especially when loading content, and is currently unplayable on Steam Deck; it is very buggy and laggy there.”

“Grinding the time trials without any bot benchmarks or friends to play against is a bit dull.”

“I can't really recommend this to people currently if they don't have a group of friends to play with or don't like grinding challenges or time trials.”

“If not, I hope you enjoy grinding time trials and seeing your leaderboard rank go up as motivation because the learning curve is not suited to people who want to get good quickly.”

“Although multiplayer is not popular, you're not playing FOMO monetization.”

“Advertising/marketing needs to be budgeted well for everyone's sake and I really do believe even just a few ads can work wonders for a game (and dev team) that truly, in every sense of the phrase, deserves it.”

“I truly think this game needs some good advertising leading up to the official release; otherwise, I really don't see the numbers going up too much as this, from a buyer's perspective, seems like a heavy niche based on its heavy CTR mechanic inclusions.”

“I need some art direction, character design, and atmosphere. The original Crash Team Racing had atmosphere and vibes; the remake butchered it with the hideous bloom effects and generic graphics. This game appears to be trying to copy the remake instead of the original.”