When you purchase a game for $4 from a local fast food joint, you can't go into it expecting much of anything. What you can expect is to be slightly annoyed by the sheer amount of crappy advertising in the game. You can expect the game to look like crap. You can expect the game to sound like crap. But the key is.........is the game still fun to actually play? Well with Pocketbike Racer, that would be a "No".
This is an obvious rip-off of Mario Kart. Of course, if that wasn't obvious going in than you are blind. And while the game isn't horrible, it just doesn't have anything that makes you want to come back to the game after playing for maybe an hour. The characters are all pretty lame, with the exception of Brooke Burke. And how can you go wrong with having a huge, live chicken in the game? Other than those two, The King, & Whopper Jr., the rest of the cast is purely generic. There are no advantages of using different characters anyways, so I guess it really doesn't matter.
The visuals are a little rough, but aren't horrible. There are five colorful tracks and I guess they all race relatively well, except for one. The construction site track needs to die a horrible death. Combined with the fact that your racer can get caught up on things in the enviroment, flip over on it's front wheel (and you can get back upright) while landing from a jump, this track has many 'instant deaths' that are very annoying. Of course the other tracks suffer from the first two annoyances, so I guess they are only marginally better. This may have some of the worst music and sound I have ever heard in a videogame. And when you can't even make a Mario Kart wanna-be racer fun online, then you know the game has problems.
But even with all of those problems, the game still has some weird charm that might have you go for the achievement points, which are easier to get in this game than the other two Burger King games. Other than that, I would pass on this game if you don't want to have all three BK games just to have them. You won't be interested in this game for more than an hour, if that, and unfortunately it doesn't have much of Brooke Burke in it. Which may be the worst travesty about this game when you think about it.
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