Hot Wheels: Beat That Review

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(More customer reviews)My cousin received this game for christmas, and I ended up playing it when he wasn't. First off, I'd like to say that at first, I thought this was a pretty good racing game. The cars are easy to control, and the layout is pretty straightforward.

However, there are several issues I have with this game.

First of all, I was disappointed to learn that it was the same tracks that were used throughout the game. There's about 12 of them, but there are a total of about 120 races required to 'beat' the game. What does this mean? It means that each of these tracks is used several times. This can get tedious, and even a little boring. There is no challenge of different tracks!

I also witnessed several problems with the programming of the game. There are glitches that make the sound stop working, glitches that make words stay on the screen long after they should have disappeared, and glitches that make cars freeze (and I'm not talking about using the ice power-up).

However, most disappointing to me was the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to fully beat the game.
For each race, you are rated from 0 to 5 points. The game is truly beaten when all 5 points have been scored for each race. However, for one of the races, it is impossible to get all five.

On each level there is a final 'tournament' race, where you go through four different tracks. On one particular level, one of the requirements to get all five points is to go through each of the shortcut areas. However, there IS NO shortcut area in one of the tracks!

This surprised me. I thought that surely the programmers wouldn't have overlooked such a big detail, and that i simply couldn't find it. But after searching the track thoroughly, and looking for answers on the internet, I have accepted that there is, in fact, no shortcut area.

Honestly, for a $15 Nintendo DS game, you're probably getting your money's worth.

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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Review

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(More customer reviews)As with many people, I found this game to be wonderful, magical, fun, clever, and satisfying.And I am a grownup.Go figure.I have enjoyed the other Lego games and thanks to the dedication to the source material, this game really clicked with me.

But since I have little to say that hasn't already been said by many other glowing reviews, I wanted to offer something that might be helpful to other gamers, a tip that I myself was unable to find on the forums and therefore wanted to share the fix.I am sure I am not the only person who ran into this particular glitch, so here it is.

I am sandbox play person, someone who loves to systematically explore everything before moving on to another level, and when I began running through Hogwarts during the first level or two, I smashed and charmed everything I could find and somehow managed to enter a courtyard I may not have been expected to enter at that stage of the game.This didn't cause any problems until after I left Snape's potion lab and discovered that every time I followed the ghost's directions to get outside to what would eventually be the greenhouse area, the game would freeze up when I entered the aforementioned courtyard.EVERY time.

I tried cleaning the disk, and even tried another disk of the game, and it froze every time and broke my heart.I searched forums and while many glitches were reported and even a few suggestions, I found no description of that particular glitch, and wondered if there was something wrong with my Wii, such as limited memory or something.

This is what I stumbled upon: I erased the saved game and started fresh, which was a bit tedious considering you don't get to skip the animation sequences.This time around, instead of running amuck and exploring everything, I followed the ghosts' directions and went where the game wanted me to go.Needless to say, the levels played very quickly, but suddenly I found myself past the freezing glitch and into many more levels.After I had completed those levels, I copied the saved game file to my SD card for safekeeping, as I knew that save was a good one, and could go back into the game and free play and explore to my heart's content.And if I find another freeze glitch, I can copy the saved game file from the SD card back onto the Wii itself and continue from that point.

Bottom line: the game design somehow made it so that you might inadvertently get ahead of the game's intentions by exploring too much, and if that happens, the game gets confused when it finds you had already done something it wasn't expecting you to have done yet, and it freezes.The best way to avoid this is to go where the game tells you to, THEN free play later and explore.

Yes, this was very frustrating for me to figure out, and certainly could have been avoidable by the game designers.However, the overall pleasure I got from the game compensates for the issue, and I won't really hold it against anyone, at least not now that I solved what turned out to be the biggest unintentional puzzle of the game for me.

Hope this helps any of you who may run into the same problem!Now go enjoy this delightful game!

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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 brings the action, adventure and fun of the first 4 stories in the Harry Potter catalog to the video game screen in the way only the LEGO franchise can. Featuring all your favorite characters and story environments, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 lets players play as the wizard of their choice, combining them piece by piece as is only possible in the LEGO franchise of games. Play options include single player story mode, free-play and two-player co-op.

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