Cars 2: The Video Game

Cars 2 (also known as Cars 2: The Video Game) is an action racing game developed by Avalanche Software. It is based on the film Cars 2, the sequel to the 2006 film Cars. Originally announced at E3 2011, the game was released by Disney Interactive Studios on major platforms in North America on June 21, 2011, and in Australia two days later. The game was released in Europe on July 22, 2011. The PlayStation 3 version of the game was reported to feature stereoscopic 3D gameplay. A Nintendo 3DS version was released on November 1, 2011 (the same day the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray). A PlayStation Portable version was released in North America on November 8, 2011. It was also released in Europe on November 4, 2011. It was the last Pixar game to be released for the PlayStation Portable, and also the only to be released for the Nintendo 3DS.

Why It Goes Where No Car Has Gone Before

 * 1) A huge variety of characters to choose from. More interestingly, this is the first time ever that we hear the World Grand Prix racers having speaking roles and lines (besides Lightning, Francesco, and Jeff Gorvette for obvious reasons).
 * 2) Great track designs.
 * 3) Amazing graphics for a game released in the seventh generation of consoles, and they look exactly almost like they were from the film.
 * 4) Like Mario Kart, the characters' weight makes them stand out from each other. For example, smaller cars such as Guido and Professor Z are far better to handle, and do not suffer from the steering itself compared to ones that appear in the infamous Guido Kart Races from Cars Race-O-Rama that has very clunky controls and suffer from the steering itself very frequently.
 * 5) Aside from Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen and Michael Caine as Finn McMissile, every actor from the movie is present, doing good jobs. Despite that, Keith Ferguson still slaps as Lightning and Martin Jarvis' does an awesome impression of Michael Caine (intentionally or not).
 * 6) The Nintendo DS and 3DS version has a story mode that follows the movie better.
 * 7) Missions have plenty of variety, each with different gadgets to use against opponents.
 * 8) Overall, it's considered a significant improvement over the movie it was based on. If it was like this, then the movie would receive positive feedback instead of mixed reviews. Because of this, it is actually better to just play this game and ignore the movie entirely.
 * 9) Despite that they didn't appear in the film, some characters from the first film do appear such as Chick Hicks, Wingo, Boost, DJ, and Snot Rod.
 * 10) *There are also skins for the Lightning and Mater based off their Cars Toons appearances (like Dragon Lightning from Tokyo Mater and Mater the Greater from the homonymic short).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The PC version is an absolute trainwreck, while the PlayStation Portable version of the game is different and runs worse compared to the DS, 3DS and home console versions.
 * 2) The story seems a bit lacking, despite being better than the actual plot of the film.
 * 3) * It also contradicts a few facts about the characters. For example, Victor Hugo can't drive on his own, hence why he needs Ivan to tow him around. But here, he's perfectly functional.
 * 4) Some supporting characters are absent such as David Hobbscap, Leland Turbo, Rip Clutchgoneski, Lewis Hamilton (understandably), Brent Mustangburger, Mama Topolino and many more.
 * 5) * To be fair, Leland was killed in the beginning of the film, but that's not really an excuse since Rod Redline was also killed not many scenes later and yet, he's present as a DLC character.
 * 6) Much like Cars 3: Driven to Win, which was released later in 2017, the speedometer was removed unlike the original Cars games.

Videos
MpszkettjAY