There's no faulting the handling too, making anyone familiar with the originals feel right at home. Spider, Cherry, Jethro, Davey, Violet and the gang are all here, injecting a little extra retro charm into the game. While Micro Machines V3 on the first PlayStation is closer to World Series in terms of gameplay, in spirit, it clearly aims to bring back memories of Micro Machines 2 and Micro Machines '96, with the original character portraits from those games present and correct. The most important thing about Micro Machines World Series is that it's fun exactly as fun as you remember it being on the Mega Drive all those years ago, if you happened to be around back then. It successfully conjures that fuzzy feeling of nostalgia, its dinky vehicles all lovingly rendered while every environment possesses a tactile quality packed with incidental detail. Broadly speaking, these are mostly catered for, and it seems a tad churlish to complain when everything has clearly been crafted as a labour of love.Īnd that's really the most important thing about Micro Machines World Series. But as a veteran of the series, I can remember beaches and treehouses among the variety of environments, as well as planes, helicopters, speedboats and numerous other vehicles types. The game features only a dozen vehicles too, albeit with a wealth of customisation options to unlock. Granted, 25 tracks isn't a small number, and they cover almost all of the classic Micro Machines locations, from kitchen tabletops and gas hobs to pool tables, workbenches, outdoor gardens and others. There's a different kind of pool table hustle going on here.

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