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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.4 hrs on record (0.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 May, 2020 @ 10:30am
Updated: 29 May, 2020 @ 2:13pm

Best Game of All Time!
Wild Animal Racing, Is truly as close as a game can get to perfection, The plot is amazing, The characters interesting and explored in depth, The writing flawless, The world as beautiful as you'll ever see in a game and the gameplay fun as hell.

Wild Animal Racing like it's successors explores beautifully the rich world it is set in and tells a story that is both original and familiar in the sense that it fits perfectly in the Wild Animal universe, And makes a perfect combination between a fantasy world and a realistic world where choices matter and the characters feel as real as they could be in a video game.
To give a more brief opinion on the game I'll list the Pros and Cons:

Pros:
+ Great story and a great main character - Ginger, the Giraffe, A very fine conclusion to his character arch and fits well with the rest of the franchise.
+ The story is long, detailed and deep, explores characters and events in depth and makes you care about your choices as you move through the plot.
+ Race design is excellent and every race, Even the small ones feels like a whole story.
+ Game is easy to learn but hard to master, you might learn the basics in a few hours but it takes quite a while to truly get good at the game, and the difficulty levels actually suit well, when you start, Easy will suit you well as you only need basic skill, When you get better and start to learn how mechanics like Banana Peels, Rockets and Side Arrows work, You'll switch to normal and have a challenge again, When you get real good, Or on your second playthrough, You'll switch to hard and the game will keep being genuinely hard and challenging even to an experienced player, As you will need to utilize every aspect of each map and all the various weapons you can obtain through the floating question marks in order to pull through.
+ Beautiful world design and lighting, even as i write this review 4 years after the game came out, It still looks phenomenal.
+ Side features is amazing, It is packed with easter eggs and mysteries to uncover, which will make you forget about the main story for a while as you simply explore every nook and cranny on the main menu.
+ The race fields is packed with content, But not overfilling, if you explore a bit you will find details and points of interest, But won't stumble upon them with every step you take and get overwhelmed with generic things to do.
+ Exploration is rewarded, But at the same time won't get you overpowered for the main game when you choose to get back to it after some digging in the main menu.
+ The maps is enormous, And i mean Enormous! it will take you tens of hours to explore a single region to it's fullest, And every region has it's own unique feel to it, Rally feels quite and peaceful, World Tour quite depressing, Magical lively and mysterious, And Roads just stunningly beautiful wildlands with a ton of crazy and intriguing stuff to find and explore, And where you expect it the least.
+ There is a very large variety of opponent animals that you will face as you go through the game, And will always find some new thing when you thought you have seen it all.
+ The Movies menu is amazing, Feels like your'e watching a good movie that you simply take part in and get to play at.
+ Graphics are very good, Even after 5 Years, I first played around 2016-17 a year and a half after the game came out, And was stunned by the visuals and the level of detail in textures and terrain, Now 4 years after it came out they still rival many of today's best-looking games and hold up very well through the years.
+ Overall there is a ton to the game and it is truly massive, the base game could take from 100 to as much as 300+ hours to finish depending on you play speed and level of completionism.
+ Gameplay is fun and well paced, Never gets old as you constantly learn new skills, acquire new items and change your play style according to them.
Cons:
- None, really.
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