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Cars Mater-National Championship

Mater is holding a national race festival allowing racers from all around the world to challenge Lightning McQueen. Along with racing against the new characters, players can explore the world of Radiator…

60 29 October 2007

Cars Mater-National Championship is a racing developed by Incinerator Studios, released 29 October 2007 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cars Mater-National Championship is

Cars Mater-National Championship is a racing game developed by Incinerator Studios and released in 2007. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mater is holding a national race festival allowing racers from all around the world to challenge Lightning McQueen. Along with racing against the new characters, players can explore the world of Radiator Springs and Lightning McQueen's racing headquarters.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pixar series

Cars Mater-National Championship is the 24th of 60 entries we hold in the Pixar series. The next entry was Ratatouille: Food Frenzy in 2007. Its critic score of 60 is 3 points below the series average of 63. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts III at 90.

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How it was received

Cars Mater-National Championship holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 1.6GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 64MB DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Cars Mater-National Championship launched on 29 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Cars Mater-National Championship — frequently asked questions

When did Cars Mater-National Championship come out?
Cars Mater-National Championship was released on 29 October 2007 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Cars Mater-National Championship?
At minimum, Cars Mater-National Championship needs Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 1.6GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM, 64MB DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video Card graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Cars Mater-National Championship?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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