There is a lot of racing action which needs to be caught up with in the Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (DS). The theme has been kept very original and there is a lot of wager money and prestige to be earned. The car handling and the courses are concrete and the graphics are best suited for the game that the Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (DS) is. There are a total of 10 leagues which need to be covered with every league having a variety of circuit races, lap challenges, eliminator races and drift competitions. The motive behind playing is to win every event you play, earn wager money for unlocking cars and then going ahead to the next league. There are a lot of vehicles that the gamer can accumulate while playing in the career mode. With every win comes the ability to purchase nitrous upgrades and engine for each vehicle. The Nintendo DS stylus screen will help the gamer to design his/her logos.

The car handling is flawless. Just in case you bump into guardrails, the speed of your vehicle will not slow down. The nitrous supply in your vehicle will be sufficient and will give the gamer the necessary leverage to accelerate back to top speed. The tracks in Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights are small but full of excitement, twists, curves and bumpers. You will have the time of your life while you drive around. Four competitors start it and only one emerges as the winner, something that you aim for. The DS racing game will provide you with the kind of entertainment you are looking for.

Gaming titan Nintendo has launched another new game for its gaming fans addicts, which is basically a nice attempt to ape the famous movie, Cars in the online gaming version. This game is a collection of a variety of other mini games. The characters of these mini games are inspired from the famous movie. The game boasts of some serious use of graphical horsepower which means that the car races in the game are fun, fast and furious. However, the game and the races only last for a very brief period of time.

The game is extremely user friendly. The individual is only required to tap on a particular character in order to select the mini game which is based on that particular character. The mini games make interesting use of side and behind-the-back views. As far as the graphical representation of the character goes, the characters are quite large in size and bear a startling resemblance to their movie counterparts. The action in most of the mini games is extremely fast paced. The audio part of the Cars DS game isn’t as fine tuned as the graphics. However, its sound track and varied sound effects aren’t offensive either. The players also have the option to make use of the touch screen in order to manipulate the characters. Any individual who might be playing Cars (DS) for the first time will find the controls difficult to find and master. However, with continuous playing, it is not difficult to locate the controls and play the Nintendo DS game comfortably.

Arcade racing comes from PC to DS. TrackMania has gamers hooked on to its looping rollercoaster courses and the loopy physics for ages now. It is now time to check out how this interesting game feels on the handheld. The portable version is sure to provide as much enjoyment on the DS as the PC version.

As a player, you pilot tiny little cars through tracks that are positively complicated. As you play the single player mode, you are up against a host of other cars on the track. There is no chance of you running into an opponent car. However, you tend to keep going off track. Game comes filled with a lot of challenges strewn over labyrinthine layouts of the course and of course the numerous other obstacles coming your way.

Simple controls add to the fun of gaming. For example, for filling gas, you press the A button, for braking the B, you press the X and Y buttons if you want to reset your car at the start of the race or at the last check point. You can choose this option depending on the type of race you are playing. A lot of interesting game modes add to the excitement. TrackMania Nintendo DS comes with many unexpected and pleasantly surprising modes. Apart from the routine practice modes, the game comes with the Platform and Puzzle modes. Platform mode challenges you to reach point B from point A through a highly technical course in as few tries as possible. The Puzzle mode teaches players the nuances of the game’s track building tool set.

With the innumerable loops and turns TrackMania is sure to keep Nintendo DS users on their feet. This is an interesting and exciting game that can provide hours of fun on your favourite DS Lite.

The Need For Speed Undercover is a great car racing title that offers the game lovers a whole new platform for burning their tyres. The EA game has been launched for various consoles including the DS Lite.

The racing game offers lots of options to the NFS fans. As expected, it has got different types of action packed races and missions. The events are split into different categories named Hot Car, Cost to State, Highway Battle and Scramble. In the Hot Car round you have to ride a stolen car to a safe house without getting caught by the cops. The Cost to State round in Need for Speed - Undercover requires you to knock down the telephone booths and stop signs so that it has an adverse effect on the state’s budget. During the Highway Battle you are on the inter-state roads with an aim to overtake your opponent at any cost. Finally, the Scramble requires you to ditch your undercover guise, grab a Porsche police cruiser and arrest the bad guys.

Apart from such events you will also find some standard sprint and circuit races are also included. As far as the graphics and cinematic are concerned the game offers detailed environments and texture but the cut scenes or supporting videos are not present. Instead, you will see some still photographs with the dialog box to understand the conversations.

Line Rider 2: Unbound is a 2D racing slash puzzle game, where your primary task is to guide an adventurous little boy through a series of progressively intricate courses. It truly is a captivating game, in spite of its 2D format, and your main goal is to solve the puzzle of missing tracks, in order to eventually enable your onscreen character to cross the finish line. It is interesting to note however that, unlike in most racing games such as Diddy Kong Racing, you don’t have any direct control over the character.

The visuals are one reason why you should play thus game. The riders exhibit a great deal of visible emotion that lends this game a genuine feel. They grimace, make faces and display a surprising level of pain when confronted with a lethal accident.

During the course of the race you have to withstand physical and gravitational barriers, and basically advance solely through trial and error. The physics part of the game is especially intriguing and is also ultra sensitive. It makes you to fly wildly the moment you hit a bump on the road. The best way to tackle the puzzle is to draw a basic line, and constantly change it until you have crossed the susceptible part of the terrain. There is no basic rule confining your movements, giving you absolute freedom. This in turn increases the overall level of satisfaction once you have made a death defying jump or just managed to save your life by the thread of a rope. There is a curving tool to assist you in bending straight lines, or you can also opt to manually draw your lines. It is, however, regrettable that bending lines in your DS is a frustrating affair, because control system often fails to register your inputs.

To sum it up, you have to constantly be on your toes in this highly challenging game The challenges are only increased by the game’s open ended nature, but then again so is the fun.

Fast-paced racing titles have always attracted gamers and sports lovers. Here we are with another driving oriented game called Wacky Races: Crash & Dash, now available for the Nintendo DS.

The title excels in nearly every aspect, be it in handling, graphics, style, sound, or most importantly the gameplay. Wacky Races (Nintendo DS) is obviously entirely composed of racing events, but one drawback is camera view angle, which sometimes makes the game hard to follow and control difficult. Just like Mario Kart, there are character specific items littered on the tracks to be used at the driver’s discretion.

The most crucial and exciting phase of the game is the final sprint to the finish line. Here you are strangely enough required to outpace your competitors by blowing into the microphone frantically. As the game is based on a cartoon, the visuals are very vibrant and cute. The lovable cartoon characters and animation goes perfectly with the game’s sound. The music fits as well, and definitely does justice to the game’s happy and cartoonish atmosphere. If you are looking for an upbeat, colourful and wacky title, then Wacky Races could be perfect for you.

Codemasters is one of those companies that has always raised the bar and never been satisfied with to rest on the laurels that they have earned in the past. With race Driver: Grid, the company successfully takes the franchise forward. The game has no complications and focuses on the journey between the starting grid and the checkered flag. There are heaps of licensed cars available through which the gamer gets to display his driving skills. The gamer’s objective is not to collect all the cars and upgrade them, but rather focused on some fast racing. The developers have given the game a very real look as if it has directly been brought out from “The Fast and The Furious”.

All the races that the driver participates in will happen in different continents. Races will commence irrespective of the racer’s involvement and the gamer is given the freedom to compete on the career path of his choice. The vehicles in Race Driver GRID (Nintendo DS) have a tendency to be easily destructible and the same goes for the environment. The game supports a maximum of 20 players who can play online and compete fiercely for the bragging rights.

So if you are a gamer looking for some thrills, go ahead and buy this one for your Nintendo DS Lite, as it promises to be full of speed and adrenaline. You are strictly advised to not miss out on this one if you have a thing for speed.