- Racing, Arcade, Action, Party
Drive into an action-packed, surprise-filled world of off-road kart racing mayhem. Race against a field of rival drivers, each with unique personalities and special abilities. Build a collection of crazy powerups, like Dodgeball Frenzy, Fireball, and Oil Slick.
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Plot-driven, warm, unpretentious and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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Nintendo LifeRyan CraddockSep 20177/10Beach Buggy Racing is a decent kart-racer; the driving is fun, the items are bonkers, and you'll likely be playing it for some time. Perhaps enjoyed best in small bursts, and without the expectation of it being a mega-serious racer, the game does offer some easy-to-play fun for both solo players and groups of family or friends. It can't steal Mario Kart's pole position and it suffers from a couple of little niggles but for a fraction of the price it does offer an acceptable alternative.
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TrueAchievementsDave HorobinJun 20153.5/5 starsBeach Buggy Racing doesn't do anything particularly ground breaking for the kart racing genre, but it does do everything it needs to. The addition of multiplayer would have been nice and taken away the feeling of grinding once you have won all of the available single-player races. With quite literally tens of hours of gameplay on offer in the career and championships alone, and even more if you want to earn all of the available achievements, the game's price point makes this a highly recommended purchase for racing fans.
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GameCrateRobert WorkmanJun 20156.8/10Had Vector Unit included better characterization and adjusted the difficulty to the point it wasn't trying to pummel you each race (there's competitive and then there's "don't mind me, I'm cheating"), Beach Buggy Racers would've been a solid debut for kart-racing action on newer systems. As it stands, it's not bad, as its multiplayer has something to offer, and the track design clicks. Just be prepared to fight for your first place victory – this ain't no leisure cruise around the island.
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Push SquareSammy BarkerMay 20155/10There's too much content in Beach Buggy Racing for it to accurately be described as shallow, but outside of the seaside motif, there's not a whole lot here that feels fresh. The controls can seem slow at first and it fails to address many of the genre's major pitfalls, but if you're desperate for a kart racer on your PS4, then this sunny side up outing should tide you over until something better comes along. Just remember to slap on the sunscreen before taking to the track.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Vector Unit
- Publisher
- Vector Unit
- Released
- September 16, 2014
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
- Perspective
- Third person
IGDB rating 5.1/10 from 10 ratings.
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