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While the game's graphics do a good job of matching the movie's look and feel, the sound in Antz Extreme Racing doesn't seem as consistent with the film's audio. In spite of the onscreen action, the game's frame rate manages to stay stable. However, due to the ant's tiny size, raindrops are concussive balls of liquid that adversely affect your chance of winning. You'll also see some weather effects on hand. In addition, you'll find other hazards in the form of burly termites and spiders that pop down and grab you. Natural objects such as trees, birds, and rolling balls of dung are massive obstacles to be avoided and feared. The game's environments are suitably huge and modeled well enough. The ant's character models come very close to the CG cousins and move well enough. Graphically, the game faithfully re-creates the look of the movie. Ants riding leaves-not something you see on the Discovery Channel. The setup works fine for the game and is very easy to pick up. When boarding, you'll also use the left analog stick to accelerate and slow your acceleration by pushing forward and pressing back, respectively. The black face button handles camera chores with cycles through the available views, and the B button looks behind you. The X button triggers any powers-ups you've collected. You'll steer with the left analog stick, accelerate with the right trigger or A button, and brake with the left trigger. You'll find homing missiles, straight firing missiles, a shield, a smoke bomb, turbo, and two types of mines-aphid land mines that explode and patches of sticky green goo to slow your opponent.Ĭontrolling your ant is a breeze, thanks to the game's simple controls. In keeping with the game's insect theme, each of the power-ups is reflected by different types of insects. As you work your way through each of your selected ant's challenges, which are usually time trials or just races that require you to finish in a certain place, you'll find flower-shaped power-ups littered throughout the tracks. Finally, flying races put you on the back of a flying insect, while bug riding races have you riding a six-legged beetle. Boarding races are the ant equivalent of snowboarding, as you'll find yourself riding a leaf down a track. Running races require you to be on foot and to jump across obstacles.

Driving puts you behind the wheel of a makeshift vehicle. The actual races will be broken up into five types: driving, running, boarding, flying, and bug riding. You'll test your skills in races in such locales as the anthill, a child's bike, a termite colony, the ant city, a dung heap, a grassy area, a garden, and a spider's lair, as well as around a pond and amongst the treetops. The races take place in a variety of locations set in a 5-yard section of Central Park that-thanks to the ant's diminutive size-is a massive raceway. The multiplayer mode lets you race against up to three other players in four-player split-screen racing.

While you'll initially have access only to Z and Bala, you'll unlock the other characters as you complete the game with each ant. The game's single-player is a 'career mode' of sorts, wherein you'll take your selected character through a set of challenges specific to each of them. You'll find two modes in the game-single-player and multiplayer.

Antz extreme racing series#

Each character's overall goal is the same-that is, to become the highest-ranked ant in the colony by competing in a series of racing challenges. You'll find six characters from the film to choose from, and they include Z, Bala, Cutter, Mandible, Weaver, and Azteca. The whole six-legged gang is on hand.Īlthough it features characters from the Dreamworks movie, Antz Extreme Racing relies more on the film's themes than its actual plot for its content.

We checked out a preview version of Antz Extreme Racing to see how it was coming together, and it's shaping up to offer a pretty solid racing experience on the Xbox.

Antz extreme racing software#

Developed by Supersonic Software and published by Empire Interactive, the game is a racing title that uses characters and locations from the 1998 Dreamworks CG movie.

Antz extreme racing movie#

The latest video game incarnation of a movie license is the upcoming Antz Extreme Racing for the Xbox. Combining a known license with a user-friendly genre has been a blueprint that developers have been following since the first days of gaming.

Licensed games are pretty safe territory when it comes to making games.