Looney Rally

Looney Rally is the sort of game that breaks hearts among gamers. A game that has SUCH potential, combined with fatal flaws that developers have no interest in discussing or defending, much less fixing. First off, I can’t believe that the developers of Looney Rally are gamers, because no gamer would ever present the (non-rebindable) controller setup that this game offers. It’s bad enough to use a controller joystick as accelerator, but to also use that very same stick as means to change camera angles (by clicking) is beyond useless…it’s game context dangerous. In a game with no challenge it’s possible that the stick would never receive that tiny bit of extra pressure that suddenly changes the view you had, to….whatever new and unfamiliar sight is next in sequence after your ACTUAL camera choice. This is not that game, and every tiny bit of extra pressure means losing the current race seconds into it. As such, this becomes the first driving game I’ve played (out of many dozens, AAA and indie) where the controller availability must be ignored in preference to the less desirable and effective keyboard. An additional problem with Looney Rally is that the normally used camera view isn…

Looney Rally Positives: + I like the idea + two of the tracks are cool + cartoon theme + you can finish the game in about 2 hours Negatives: - the first cars are way to underpowered - it feels like driving in slow motion - almost no sense of speed - the handling is more or less awful - physics are so so - a lot of bugs and glitches - bad graphics - it takes a lot of time to unlock everything - not enough tracks to keep you interested I liked the idea of a cartoon rally game. But unfortunately this feels more like early access than a finished game. If you want to unlock everything, you need to drive underpowered cars on the same few tracks over and over. And that feels both boring and grindy. This game needs a lot of work, so get back to the drawingboard please. Total Score: 3.5/10