Cars Race-O-Rama (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Cars Race-O-Rama

In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, players get to race against new characters through action-packed tracks to win the Race-O-Rama trophy as their own personalized Lightning McQueen. Join Lightning McQueen in…

53 12 October 2009

What Cars Race-O-Rama is

Cars Race-O-Rama is a racing game developed by Incinerator Studios and released in 2009. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, players get to race against new characters through action-packed tracks to win the Race-O-Rama trophy as their own personalized Lightning McQueen. Join Lightning McQueen in Radiator Springs as he prepares his academy of student racers for the Race-O-Rama competition. Lightning finds out that Chick Hicks has his own set of academy student racers who don't always compete fairly. These student racers are preparing to race in the same competitions in order to propel Chick Hick's academy to the #1 spot. The races take place at various tracks from the beaches, into the cities and off to the Baja desert. Along the way, racers are upgrading their abilities and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pixar series

Cars Race-O-Rama is the 36th of 60 entries we hold in the Pixar series. The next entry was Cars Race-O-Rama in 2009. Its critic score of 53 is 10 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 Race-O-Rama holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Cars Race-O-Rama launched on 12 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

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