Fun fact: Considering this game was released three days before the movie was released in theaters, this means Lightning Mcqueen technically is a videogame character.
Honestly, I would kill to see a quoting competition where they play a scene from a movie with no volume and it's up to two people to quote the scene as best they can
I think “Lightning Strikes Back” is my favourite mini game because it really captures how McQueen has changed as a character, going out of his way to go on the interstate to track the delinquent road hazards down because they messed with one of friends, and I honestly think it’s one of the few times we’ve seen him really pissed off, driving down a busy interstate and getting his things back, and the music in the minigame reflects that as well.
If I had a nickel for everytime a Thomas TH-camr had an hour long video on something from the card franchise where they fell off at Thomas for a bit and watched cars to the point of where they could recite it word-for-word, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happens twice.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this meme I especially thought it was hilarious that Unlucky Tug tried to use this joke again for Toby in season 10, but immediately decided it wasn’t worth it. 😂 I’m pretty sure that even the creators of Phineas & Ferb knew that the “nickel” joke would only be a one hit wonder.
@@SrMechaGojira93 unlucky tug also used it in the season 9 one for toby breaking his cowcatchers so i guess if i had a nickel for every time unlucky tug used it for something toby does in the thomas retrospective, i'd have two nickels... blah blah blah
10:55 Megamind’s video games also featured an unused concept from the film in the form of the Doom Syndicate, repurposed as new villains for Megamind to take care of now that he’s Metrocity’s newest hero. And just like this game, the games were a better sequel than the “actual” sequel.
I take it you have McQueen in the Dinoco paint job by two things, 1: He could've had that sponsor from the movie instead of giving it up, 2: He just looks cool in Dinoco blue.
>mentions watching Cars over and over and over as a kid >collected the die-casts >can quote it nearly entirely This may have been the fastest sub I have ever given someone in my life, you're literally just like me lmao Cars is the first film I have any memory of watching in less than 5yo (other than Ben 10: Race Against Time) and it left such a huge mark in my life It's without a doubt my favourite animated movie of all time
Okay. I'll say it. This video is hilarious A lot of the jokes got me hard out of the blue, and the timing is impeccable Good shit, good shit! Do not regret the subscription in the slightest
I didn’t get this game until a few years ago, but I constantly saw an advert for it on the Cars DVD I watched endlessly growing up. My childhood game was the Wii version of Cars 2, which I still enjoy to this day it’s it’s a really enjoyable tie in game. I still love Cars 2 as a film to this day too, and I’ll never understand why people hate it so much.
I could- and still can- give a carbon copy voice impression of Mater. You could apply a blindfold, listen to my voice impression and think you heard Larry the Cable Guy. Bearing this in mind, I entered a summer program for teens, which had a talent contest. I gave a voice impression of Mater with a friend named Emily (just friend) as Lightning McQueen. We ended up winning the contest. Thanks CARS
I don’t have a funny LMAO comment to say this time around, so instead I’ll just say thank you for the shout out. I’m glad I could be a part of this video in some way, shape or form!
as I guy who probably spent the most amount of time playing this game i'd like to say that this is a really good review. Like, actually good. Can't really say anything bad about it beside the fact that Cars TVG has a pretty unique physics and glitches around them (and not only) that make it kind of a sandbox game. It's really fun to mess around with physics glitches like double jump, powerslide boosting, tilt sliding and other wacky things. In a speedrun u, especially 100% u can collect postcards in such a unique way it never gets old. Same with wacky stuff in mini-games like the tractor tipping jump and etc. Probs one of the things I'd like to mention is that compared to other cars games the world does not feel flat. This is the thing I hated in MN and ROR (in some parts), but in TVG it's just a good world u know? Also, fun fact: the world was originally planned to be merged with Radiator Spring and Ornament Valley being one area (and that's why OV feels so stale), but the scrapped that idea probably cuz of ps2 or smt, I don't really know. The source of it is that: 1. they share the same scene in games files (RS scene files contains OV scene files inside of it); 2. if u drive in RS to the cliff postcards and look to the OV u will see that there're postcards located in unloaded area, in the same places as if you were in OV. U can grab them (from the RS) and they will not appear in OV's real area if u check their placement after getting them. Anyways good review! Thanks for covering literally the smallest parts of the game :D
I haven’t watch the whole video, but just seeing you review a non Thomas content is something I love to see. Cars the video game is pretty nostalgia to me, and remember playing it and exploring the hub world for hours with the calming music to add up. This is a great retrospective on the game, and props to everyone who work on it
Your passion for this franchise and the game itself really shows here, love the way everything was edited and hearing your personal story with this game! Great video all around, keep up the good work. :)
This game will always have a special place in my heart, the soundtrack, story and their willingness to stay true to the film... And the end tune seeing the piston cup next to Doc's three always leads to a tear in my eye
Great Video about the Cars game. And a nice way to start June since the original movie turns 18 on the 9th. (BTW, at 2:15, kinda gives me the vibes from Tugs’ Video of Cars, when he says he remembers every line from the first Cars movie) Overall, another fantastic video from you man. 👍🏻
One of the best Pixar films EVER MADE, in me opinion👍👍👍 First watch when i was 6 in 2007, I love all the characters, especially Mater and the Fabolous Hudson Hornet (in the Danish version Chick Hicks was actually voiced by Mads Mikkelsen!). I've also met Jorgen Klubien (Danish animator and lead singer of Danseorkestret, who have worked for Disney and Bluth), who was one of the writers behind the film, he actually came up with the original idea of an electric yellow blue car, before it evolved into our favorite hotshot red Chevrolet (I think Lightning is a Corvette C6, anyway that's his closest resemblance irl, he also asks Sally at one point if she fell in love with a Corvette, which hints a little towards this). Jorgen also made a silhouette picture of me, as he had a silhouette papercut shop in Tivoli (old and well-loved Danish amusement park in Copenhagen) back in 2019. He's a very underrated artist, if it weren't for him, Joe Ranft and the others, the films probably wouldn't exist. What a talent he is... I also think Cars 2 is very underrated, even though it's a very different and darker movie from the first, it contains a lot of comedy and great Bond references for a Bond fan like me
I owned the GameCube version. And this was one of those games me and my best friend would play religiously durring the summer. Well that and or "Mario Kart Double Dash" or "Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure".
55:07 That's a completely different character, Joltson, even though he has the same vehicle type as Aiken Axler, he's not the same character, same with the other Piston Cup Racers.
Hey folks, a couple things I forgot to add in my section, I kept if brief as I didn’t want to make this already long video, even longer. Here’s some details I neglected; Story is essentially the same as the console counterpart, just with select side characters neglected. Nothing really interesting to discuss there. The environment sucks. As you noticed, outside of piston cup races, there’s only one biome type. DESERT. Nothing in the beautiful woods of Tailfin Pass. The tracks also all look identical aside from the shape of the road. Lastly, for those of you wondering about the DS version…………… Don’t. It’s a mini-game compilation. I also want to say, I love the console version. My thoughts on it are pretty much the same as everyone else’s here. Simply a superb experience. Oh crap, I just remembered being an American, nobody in other countries can actually play NASCAR games. They don’t exist there. RIP. Thanks again for having me here Luke! Was an absolute pleasure to help you on this.
The Cars video games were a lot of fun to play. For a Pixar movie that is all about cars racing, it is translated perfectly into the video game medium. I used to play 3 cars game growing up, Cars on both the GameCube & Wii, Cars Race-O-Rama (which i liked even better), and Cars 2 (which I didn’t think it’s as good as the previous Cars games). As a kid, I’d played both Cars & Race O Rama religiously as I’m very determined to beat both games, which I did. I’d completed both games a couple times from my sheer determination to win in many races and mini games in the process of the story. And unlocking two other maps, Ornament Valley and Tailfin Pass. I was a plucky kid. My favourite part is that I can explore an open world of Cars by driving around Radiator Springs, Tailfin Pass, and Ornament Valley to see the sights and scenic locations, bump into other cars for fun to pretend I crash into one, and see some hidden discoveries throughout the game. And you and I do have something in common Luke, the Cars movie was also my first movie that I’d ever saw in cinemas growing up. My very first time going to the cinemas/movie theatre back in 2006 blew my 5 year old mind away, it really was a blast seeing a movie like that on a giant screen in the auditorium room. Pretty soon, my mom had got it on dvd for me and I watched it over and over again. I also watched some of Mater’s Tall Tales shorts on the Disney Channel. And yes, just like with Thomas how it was the springboard for my interest in trains, Cars was the springboard for my interest in NASCAR and other car races like Formula 1 or Grand Prix racing. Even The Fast & Furious & Talladega Nights: Ballad Of Ricky Bobby movies had contributed my interest into race cars. I used to watch NASCAR a lot with my dad back in the late 2000’s. The Cars movie help made race car races like NASCAR became popular for both the kids and adults. Looking back at this movie as an adult, Cars still means so much to me to this day. Both the 2006 movie and video game give me a good load of nostalgia and I’ll never forget. So Luke, as a fan of the Cars franchise, did you like NASCAR as well? Was it a fun Motorsport?
I never got to play this version of the cars video game, rather the sequel to it (Mater-National). Similar in layout but a slightly different story (you’re basically building a racetrack in Radiator Springs to attract racers/fans from all over the world). I think it uses a very similar (if not the same) map for a lot of it, but overall as soon as I started playing it I fell in love with Cars. I would sneak down to the basement to play it whenever I could, sometimes competing with my siblings to see who’d be in control first. It was my childhood and seeing how thoroughly you went over the original made me remember all the fun memories playing the sequel. Thank you for the video, it took me back and gave me some good memories!
Simply phenomenal video 👏 one of the best I’ve seen for this game, as a Cars fan I love this game to death, and seeing coverage of it on TH-cam is always a treat, this is easily one of the most comprehensive looks into the game, even covering the different versions of it (X360’s the best don’t @ me) and you know what, this game deserves it, the effort that was put into this game cannot be denied, and the least we could do is acknowledge that effort, they rarely if even cut corners with it at all, especially in a market like licensed kid movie tie-ins where phoning it in is the norm, games like this one showcase that licensed games could be great videogames in their own right, but also make for PHENOMENAL complimentary content for the source material, I was both surprised and delighted to learn new things about the game that I actually hadn’t known about before, so well done on your research for this! Although one thing I’d note is that the CHMPION cheat not only gives you the option of Champion difficulty for the arcade mode, but also amps up the difficulty for the story mode as well, don’t blame you for not knowing that though, it’s pretty hidden, aside from that, I loved the video (as you can probably tell by how long this comment is lol) great job Luke, you outdid yourself once again!
The first couple minutes were so similar to me it was genuinely uncanny. Same age, same obsessions in the same order, same autism that causes said obsessions, you name it. I'm genuinely thinking you might be my long lost twin.
I remember playing the Wii port of this game, and not having any idea how to do any of the races, just driving around the world, with my Wii remote in the Wii wheel. I kept coming back to the game, though. It was captivating to just drive around the world, doing donuts for 30 seconds. I loved it so much. It was FAR from my favourite Wii game (that would go to Mario kart Wii, but that’s a different story) but I still came back to it all the time, and I found the Wii channel music very funny.
This game was early child hood. I remember being so bad at the game I couldn’t make progress so I would just drive around crashing into other cars. Sure was some simpler times.
This was a wild throwback, I adored the game on PlayStation 2! I'd actually forgotten how much of a story the game had, got even more of an appreciation for it now :D
I love the earnestness you discuss the hyperfixation at the start, as somebody with a channel that focuses on licensed games myself I often fear somebody will say something like "why do you care so much" But its simply i love seeing what these games try to do with the properties, and sometimes you find something surprising and I love sharing that experience. Cars the Video Game is a treasure, and the Xbox 360 version make the visuals such a knock out of the park! The one thing holding the game back is just texture resolution and the 360 bridges the gap to make it so movie-like.
you made me wanna pick the game up again soon, i need to relive this game from my childhood theres something about 2000s movie/show tie-in games that had a sense of care and effort, spongebob bfbb, barnyard and of course cars, are standouts to me
This game was literally my childhood. I didn’t know how to use a memory card so I would literally start from the beginning every time and my goal was to get the dinoco livery every time. I also have unhealed trauma from the Frank stealth missions, would literally get my dad or brother in and run out of the room but still peeking to make sure they don’t get caught.
Similarly, Cars was also my first video game, introducing me to my favourite console, the GameCube back in 2006. While I had numerous other movie tie-in games for the system, something always felt special about Cars when compared to the others, due to the phenomenal open world, memorable soundtrack, and a plot that built off the film which had been engraved into my mind. Fantastic video as always, Luke!
I remember seeing a video about this game appear in my recommendation feed, can’t wait to see what this game was about (especially as I’m super nostalgic about Cars; it’s not the worst of the classic Pixar era imo)
It's kind of surprising that we never got diecast models of any of the video game characters, considering Cars is a franchise known for making marketable toys of just about any character from the three movies and spin-offs. They'll make toy versions of the most random, obscure background characters who you won't even notice and show up for like two seconds never to be seen again. I think at some point Mattel _did_ release a three pack of some of Mater's cousins, but that's essentially it.
@@usualblokeluke At the very least they released a diecast of Bubba from Race-O-Rama. I guess if you want to get technical, they did _sort of_ release Otto, Emma, and Koji from Mater National in some form... just not as themselves, since their designs were reused as background characters in the Tokyo Mater short.
I never had this specific game, but I had Maternational on my old Wii. Seeing this video reawakened the nostalgic sound of the ka-chow from hitting bolts in my memory
Cars the video game being released three days before the movie came out reminds me of when the Thomas & Friends series 2 episodes aired on television two days before the book titled ''More About Thomas the Tank Engine came out''.
This game brings so many memories back to me. So much fun it brought, but there was one thing that always bothered me that Cars 2 and Cars 3 Driven to Win did better……The way you jump. Flicking the joystick or D-pad up and down kinda annoyed me, like come on why do that when you could’ve at least map it to a button like those latter games did or just click down on the joystick? Especially when I try to do it, it just doesn’t register in all the time, leading to moments where I try to jump to take a shortcut, my character doesn’t jump and just slams into a wall or the small bump that for some reason I discovered I was able to clear without jumping whatsoever. Nowadays I’ve gotten over it….but little kid me….got pretty frustrated when it came to…*Sarge’s Boot Camp.* I hated that because I never knew the jumping was a thing, and trying to understand when to time it on those training courses, AND beat all the tracks under the time limit, I was about ready to fling my 360 controller across the room.
8:28 Aha I know that! that's a game grumps line you can't hide that from me! Also good video. Also, I'm shocked at how much this game fits into the canon of the Cars franchise. McQueen won multiple piston cups (probably one of them being the one he won at the end of this game), Lighting is a world-traveling race car, which he was stated to be gone for a while in Cars 2, that little railway track which later appears again in cars 2 but who knows this might have been all unintentional
My brother and I love trying to beat each other in the pit stop mini game. Each of us furiously inputting the button prompts as fast as humanly possible I can still beat him now and then, but my age is starting to get the better of me
Great video on the Cars 1 video game! It's super underrated like the first Cars movie and might be the best movie tie-in game alongside Goldeneye N64. I remember my dad renting the Wii port when I was 6 or 7 and due to the darn motion controls we were pretty bad at it, so we only played it for 5 minutes. It wasn't until last year when I got a preowned Xbox 360 that I replayed the X360 port in a new perspective after 11 years and I was rather impressed with it. I enjoyed the open world feel it had even if the game took place mainly in a vast desert. After playing the Cars 2 game and Cars 3: Driven to Win, I enjoyed both of them, the first Cars game is still the best (while the latter two felt more like Twisted Metal wannabes).
The Wii version does have an alternate control scheme which allows you to use the nunchuck, so you don't really have to use motion controls except for jumping.
It’s like we have the same mind lol I do the exact same thing at 46:06 stopping dead in front of the finish 😆 I also know quite a bit more of the movie word for word than I care to admit. 😅 Great vid.
this game was my childhood, it still influences me to this day, I'd have so much to write about it, I could write a whole book, maybe even several, it's literally been such an important thing in my life, I love it so much and it's still the world I'm mentally in, radiator springs is my home, and it will forever be. I hold it dear to my heart, and I'll probably never let it go
Man me and my brother have some good memories with cars. Saw it in theaters,got the game,collected the toys. A core memory is my brother throwing my die cast “Boost” (my favorite one) and it cracking my head opened,I’ve cracked it like 2 or 3 times before. The wing got stuck in my head,funny hospital visit tbh
Dude this was one of the first games my family got for our Wii. We didn’t do any of the racing or completed the story, we just drove around Radiator Springs and Tractor Tipping (it was our favorite scene). Despite possibly only completing 1% of the game we loved it!
Cars Video Game - Radiator Springs Theme ive had this theme in my head since this video been online amazing review also going to get my PS2 back connected and play cars again thank you and prob play some hit and run as well
I had a video idea to cover this game in fine detail to the passion poured into this game, but you nailed this. I see no need to do that now. Very well structured video covering the unique history of this game!
While admittedly I took a few days to get to this, I was actually hooked and watch the entire thing through. This game reminds me a lot about the video game for the movie “planes” with its similar racing format. This video also motivates me a little more to continue working on something different compared to my “recent” films. Good work!
I’m very glad you mentioned how the game feels like a natural successor to the first film, it’s also something that I really love about its sequel games: Mater national and race-o-rama, they also took that one line of dialogue where lightning says that he’s getting his own racing headquarters in radiator springs and went full throttle with it, in the first game, they were already alluding to it with a sign that says that Lightning’s racing headquarters is coming soon, in Mater-national, the exact place where that sign is is replaced with a construction site where the headquarters will be built and as you progress through that game, the headquarters’s construction makes more progress alongside a new racing stadium in radiator springs that is also under construction too where in each last race of each chapter, it also becomes more and more fleshed out with the final race of the game taking place in the fully constructed racing stadium and the final cutscene being a group photo in front of the fully constructed headquarters. And then race o rama doesn’t even forget about any of that by having lightnings racing stadium be a major location and also being one of the new hub worlds you can freely explore and I love that so much, I love that you get to explore this area that you spent an entire game getting to see slowly built over time is just so cool, I can’t think of any other group of liscened games that have such a strong sense of connectivity like the first 3 cars games and it’s one of the things that makes those game so unique compared to other liscenced games along with all three of those games being good in their own ways.
Watching this made me miss the old days and then when seeing the lizzy post card cutscene it literally made me shot up and had a memory unlocked but as a kid never made progress but enjoyed the game and can remember me with my older brother doing the tractor tipping game together
I had this game as a kid, it was so much fun to explore radiator springs, the worst part imo was the offical races because the tracks were so simplistic compaired to the races that used the open world maps,
This game takes me back to the days of my youth, when my sister and I stayed over at our Nana and Pop's and played this game on their old PS2. Honestly? Such a banger game
I LOVE this game. I am still obsessed with the soundtrack. “What I Want” by Autopilot Off is still deep in my heart. I’m so happy that someone finally made this type of video about this game
First off I hope this gets tractions cause while I love your Thomas stuff. The passion you bring to other media is great. Second I just love how much love was put into this game. Like even some of the scenes you showed made me laugh, cry, and just feels things. Which proof of really good art.
This game that got me to gaming and i used to played it everyday everytime the disc scratches and doesn’t work i get another copy of the game and i repeat the cycle this game is my childhood and my life just last week i got the psp version by playing it on a psp emulator on my ipad and i was so happy i got to play it because it was my first time playing that version.
Great video, I’ll miss joe ranft I can see why they wanted to pay respect for him by deciding not to include the characters he voiced but since his brother Jerome voiced red in cars 3 he could voice wheezy in toy story 5
I played the crap out of this game when I was younger, I remember not doing any of the racing and just driving around and crashing, I was 3 when the movie and game came out, still my favorite animated film The soundtrack still slaps to this day
Fun fact: Considering this game was released three days before the movie was released in theaters, this means Lightning Mcqueen technically is a videogame character.
And I guess that also makes Cars the best video game movie ever made lol
Meaning that Lightning McQueen is eligible to be a playable character in Smash bros
@@Daniel_95 what would his moveset be
@maddox *d r i v e*
@@YoungMrBlue fair point.
Luke: Have you met a fan that can quote this entire movie?
Unlucky Tug: Are you challenging me?!
Honestly, I would kill to see a quoting competition where they play a scene from a movie with no volume and it's up to two people to quote the
scene as best they can
I think “Lightning Strikes Back” is my favourite mini game because it really captures how McQueen has changed as a character, going out of his way to go on the interstate to track the delinquent road hazards down because they messed with one of friends, and I honestly think it’s one of the few times we’ve seen him really pissed off, driving down a busy interstate and getting his things back, and the music in the minigame reflects that as well.
That DVD menu took me right back to 2006
I love how Disney in this era would actually put genuine effort into their tie in games movie tie ins nowadays just aren’t the same anymore
From what I can tell they just don't happen much at all anymore
Cars is actually a good franchise and I will die on that hill
May I join you on that hill?
In particular I would like to defend Cars 2. It’s nowhere near as terrible as many make it out to be.
Cars 2 was good too idc
So will i
Cars 3 is another woke bs movie.
@@Leon_SKennnedy I love cars 2 for how stupid it is
If I had a nickel for everytime a Thomas TH-camr had an hour long video on something from the card franchise where they fell off at Thomas for a bit and watched cars to the point of where they could recite it word-for-word, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happens twice.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of this meme
I especially thought it was hilarious that Unlucky Tug tried to use this joke again for Toby in season 10, but immediately decided it wasn’t worth it. 😂
I’m pretty sure that even the creators of Phineas & Ferb knew that the “nickel” joke would only be a one hit wonder.
@@SrMechaGojira93 unlucky tug also used it in the season 9 one for toby breaking his cowcatchers
so i guess if i had a nickel for every time unlucky tug used it for something toby does in the thomas retrospective, i'd have two nickels... blah blah blah
It is crazy that i know what your are talking about.
I did not just learn from this review after so many years that Michael Keaton voiced Chick Hicks
I have that game for XBOX and let me tell you, the Tractor Tipping minigame used to scare the living Jesus out of me
It's even scarier on the DS version where Frank outright jump scares you when you get caught!
Slender the eight pages before Slender the eight pages
I was scared of Frank when I was little and I despite being an adult and watching game plays of tractor tipping. I still can't get past level 2
10:55 Megamind’s video games also featured an unused concept from the film in the form of the Doom Syndicate, repurposed as new villains for Megamind to take care of now that he’s Metrocity’s newest hero.
And just like this game, the games were a better sequel than the “actual” sequel.
IKR! I wish this was adapted into the real Cars 2!
At least we got Cars 3 in the end plus as much as it's bizarre, I do like cars 2 even if it's dumb asf and just baffling
Megamind So-called sequel is actually not a sequel but it’s a TV series
@@BBK113I love Cars 2!
@@JosephRailwayStudios2000 a BAD TV series
I take it you have McQueen in the Dinoco paint job by two things, 1: He could've had that sponsor from the movie instead of giving it up, 2: He just looks cool in Dinoco blue.
You are correct with the second one lol
Blue is an awesome colour on McQueen
Always took the Dinoco paint for myself too. Glad to see I am not the only one.
>mentions watching Cars over and over and over as a kid
>collected the die-casts
>can quote it nearly entirely
This may have been the fastest sub I have ever given someone in my life, you're literally just like me lmao
Cars is the first film I have any memory of watching in less than 5yo (other than Ben 10: Race Against Time) and it left such a huge mark in my life
It's without a doubt my favourite animated movie of all time
Okay. I'll say it.
This video is hilarious
A lot of the jokes got me hard out of the blue, and the timing is impeccable
Good shit, good shit!
Do not regret the subscription in the slightest
Same, I have really good memories of the cars's films
I didn’t get this game until a few years ago, but I constantly saw an advert for it on the Cars DVD I watched endlessly growing up. My childhood game was the Wii version of Cars 2, which I still enjoy to this day it’s it’s a really enjoyable tie in game. I still love Cars 2 as a film to this day too, and I’ll never understand why people hate it so much.
I could- and still can- give a carbon copy voice impression of Mater. You could apply a blindfold, listen to my voice impression and think you heard Larry the Cable Guy. Bearing this in mind, I entered a summer program for teens, which had a talent contest. I gave a voice impression of Mater with a friend named Emily (just friend) as Lightning McQueen. We ended up winning the contest. Thanks CARS
Very wonderful review, Luke. Honestly didn’t expect a movie tie-in video game to be this good, but I’m glad it is.
I don’t have a funny LMAO comment to say this time around, so instead I’ll just say thank you for the shout out. I’m glad I could be a part of this video in some way, shape or form!
as I guy who probably spent the most amount of time playing this game i'd like to say that this is a really good review. Like, actually good. Can't really say anything bad about it beside the fact that Cars TVG has a pretty unique physics and glitches around them (and not only) that make it kind of a sandbox game. It's really fun to mess around with physics glitches like double jump, powerslide boosting, tilt sliding and other wacky things. In a speedrun u, especially 100% u can collect postcards in such a unique way it never gets old. Same with wacky stuff in mini-games like the tractor tipping jump and etc.
Probs one of the things I'd like to mention is that compared to other cars games the world does not feel flat. This is the thing I hated in MN and ROR (in some parts), but in TVG it's just a good world u know?
Also, fun fact: the world was originally planned to be merged with Radiator Spring and Ornament Valley being one area (and that's why OV feels so stale), but the scrapped that idea probably cuz of ps2 or smt, I don't really know. The source of it is that: 1. they share the same scene in games files (RS scene files contains OV scene files inside of it); 2. if u drive in RS to the cliff postcards and look to the OV u will see that there're postcards located in unloaded area, in the same places as if you were in OV. U can grab them (from the RS) and they will not appear in OV's real area if u check their placement after getting them.
Anyways good review! Thanks for covering literally the smallest parts of the game :D
I haven’t watch the whole video, but just seeing you review a non Thomas content is something I love to see. Cars the video game is pretty nostalgia to me, and remember playing it and exploring the hub world for hours with the calming music to add up.
This is a great retrospective on the game, and props to everyone who work on it
2:15-2:49 Luke, we need a dub of Cars from you asap lmao
Your passion for this franchise and the game itself really shows here, love the way everything was edited and hearing your personal story with this game! Great video all around, keep up the good work. :)
Forgot to add this to my comment but your edits were extremely funny, you know the ones 😂
This game will always have a special place in my heart, the soundtrack, story and their willingness to stay true to the film... And the end tune seeing the piston cup next to Doc's three always leads to a tear in my eye
Pause at 47:29 is that a little teaser trailer for series 11 of Thomas & Friends.
Great Video about the Cars game. And a nice way to start June since the original movie turns 18 on the 9th. (BTW, at 2:15, kinda gives me the vibes from Tugs’ Video of Cars, when he says he remembers every line from the first Cars movie) Overall, another fantastic video from you man. 👍🏻
I think I have an obligation to watch every review on this game now. Big part of my childhood, seen like 3 reviews already. Love it
One of the best Pixar films EVER MADE, in me opinion👍👍👍 First watch when i was 6 in 2007, I love all the characters, especially Mater and the Fabolous Hudson Hornet (in the Danish version Chick Hicks was actually voiced by Mads Mikkelsen!). I've also met Jorgen Klubien (Danish animator and lead singer of Danseorkestret, who have worked for Disney and Bluth), who was one of the writers behind the film, he actually came up with the original idea of an electric yellow blue car, before it evolved into our favorite hotshot red Chevrolet (I think Lightning is a Corvette C6, anyway that's his closest resemblance irl, he also asks Sally at one point if she fell in love with a Corvette, which hints a little towards this). Jorgen also made a silhouette picture of me, as he had a silhouette papercut shop in Tivoli (old and well-loved Danish amusement park in Copenhagen) back in 2019. He's a very underrated artist, if it weren't for him, Joe Ranft and the others, the films probably wouldn't exist. What a talent he is...
I also think Cars 2 is very underrated, even though it's a very different and darker movie from the first, it contains a lot of comedy and great Bond references for a Bond fan like me
I owned the GameCube version. And this was one of those games me and my best friend would play religiously durring the summer. Well that and or "Mario Kart Double Dash" or "Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure".
55:07 That's a completely different character, Joltson, even though he has the same vehicle type as Aiken Axler, he's not the same character, same with the other Piston Cup Racers.
Hey folks, a couple things I forgot to add in my section, I kept if brief as I didn’t want to make this already long video, even longer.
Here’s some details I neglected;
Story is essentially the same as the console counterpart, just with select side characters neglected. Nothing really interesting to discuss there.
The environment sucks. As you noticed, outside of piston cup races, there’s only one biome type. DESERT. Nothing in the beautiful woods of Tailfin Pass. The tracks also all look identical aside from the shape of the road.
Lastly, for those of you wondering about the DS version……………
Don’t. It’s a mini-game compilation.
I also want to say, I love the console version. My thoughts on it are pretty much the same as everyone else’s here. Simply a superb experience.
Oh crap, I just remembered being an American, nobody in other countries can actually play NASCAR games. They don’t exist there. RIP.
Thanks again for having me here Luke! Was an absolute pleasure to help you on this.
I think the NASCAR games got PAL versions.
Ima be honest I haven’t played cars since I was 4 and I’m 16 now so this video will definitely be nostalgic
39:23 go back and play simply for this
The Cars video games were a lot of fun to play. For a Pixar movie that is all about cars racing, it is translated perfectly into the video game medium. I used to play 3 cars game growing up, Cars on both the GameCube & Wii, Cars Race-O-Rama (which i liked even better), and Cars 2 (which I didn’t think it’s as good as the previous Cars games). As a kid, I’d played both Cars & Race O Rama religiously as I’m very determined to beat both games, which I did. I’d completed both games a couple times from my sheer determination to win in many races and mini games in the process of the story. And unlocking two other maps, Ornament Valley and Tailfin Pass. I was a plucky kid.
My favourite part is that I can explore an open world of Cars by driving around Radiator Springs, Tailfin Pass, and Ornament Valley to see the sights and scenic locations, bump into other cars for fun to pretend I crash into one, and see some hidden discoveries throughout the game.
And you and I do have something in common Luke, the Cars movie was also my first movie that I’d ever saw in cinemas growing up. My very first time going to the cinemas/movie theatre back in 2006 blew my 5 year old mind away, it really was a blast seeing a movie like that on a giant screen in the auditorium room. Pretty soon, my mom had got it on dvd for me and I watched it over and over again. I also watched some of Mater’s Tall Tales shorts on the Disney Channel.
And yes, just like with Thomas how it was the springboard for my interest in trains, Cars was the springboard for my interest in NASCAR and other car races like Formula 1 or Grand Prix racing. Even The Fast & Furious & Talladega Nights: Ballad Of Ricky Bobby movies had contributed my interest into race cars. I used to watch NASCAR a lot with my dad back in the late 2000’s. The Cars movie help made race car races like NASCAR became popular for both the kids and adults.
Looking back at this movie as an adult, Cars still means so much to me to this day. Both the 2006 movie and video game give me a good load of nostalgia and I’ll never forget.
So Luke, as a fan of the Cars franchise, did you like NASCAR as well? Was it a fun Motorsport?
I was 12 when Cars came and already was a NASCAR fan who also occasionally watched IndyCar and Formula 1.
I never got to play this version of the cars video game, rather the sequel to it (Mater-National). Similar in layout but a slightly different story (you’re basically building a racetrack in Radiator Springs to attract racers/fans from all over the world). I think it uses a very similar (if not the same) map for a lot of it, but overall as soon as I started playing it I fell in love with Cars. I would sneak down to the basement to play it whenever I could, sometimes competing with my siblings to see who’d be in control first. It was my childhood and seeing how thoroughly you went over the original made me remember all the fun memories playing the sequel.
Thank you for the video, it took me back and gave me some good memories!
Getting the chance to beat Chick Hicks in a video game after the events of the movie is actually great.
Simply phenomenal video 👏 one of the best I’ve seen for this game, as a Cars fan I love this game to death, and seeing coverage of it on TH-cam is always a treat, this is easily one of the most comprehensive looks into the game, even covering the different versions of it (X360’s the best don’t @ me) and you know what, this game deserves it, the effort that was put into this game cannot be denied, and the least we could do is acknowledge that effort, they rarely if even cut corners with it at all, especially in a market like licensed kid movie tie-ins where phoning it in is the norm, games like this one showcase that licensed games could be great videogames in their own right, but also make for PHENOMENAL complimentary content for the source material, I was both surprised and delighted to learn new things about the game that I actually hadn’t known about before, so well done on your research for this! Although one thing I’d note is that the CHMPION cheat not only gives you the option of Champion difficulty for the arcade mode, but also amps up the difficulty for the story mode as well, don’t blame you for not knowing that though, it’s pretty hidden, aside from that, I loved the video (as you can probably tell by how long this comment is lol) great job Luke, you outdid yourself once again!
2:15 this was/is LITERALLY me with Toy Story 2 & Finding Nemo. I'd re-enact the movies with my toys all the time
The first couple minutes were so similar to me it was genuinely uncanny. Same age, same obsessions in the same order, same autism that causes said obsessions, you name it. I'm genuinely thinking you might be my long lost twin.
Amazing video. The beginning definitely resonated with me as cars was also the first film I ever saw in theater as well. Truly a wonderful video
This is by far one of the best review videos I've seen about Cars the video game (Keep up the good work!)
I remember playing the Wii port of this game, and not having any idea how to do any of the races, just driving around the world, with my Wii remote in the Wii wheel. I kept coming back to the game, though. It was captivating to just drive around the world, doing donuts for 30 seconds. I loved it so much. It was FAR from my favourite Wii game (that would go to Mario kart Wii, but that’s a different story) but I still came back to it all the time, and I found the Wii channel music very funny.
Maybe I should make a video about my nostalgia for Mario kart Wii 👀👀
This game was early child hood. I remember being so bad at the game I couldn’t make progress so I would just drive around crashing into other cars. Sure was some simpler times.
I'm gonna play this on Dolphin Emulator now. Thanks, Luke!
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a while! Keep up the good work!
This was a wild throwback, I adored the game on PlayStation 2! I'd actually forgotten how much of a story the game had, got even more of an appreciation for it now :D
im sorry your channel doesn't have a lot attention to this vid, i absolutely love it! im happy that you still published this!
I love the earnestness you discuss the hyperfixation at the start, as somebody with a channel that focuses on licensed games myself I often fear somebody will say something like "why do you care so much"
But its simply i love seeing what these games try to do with the properties, and sometimes you find something surprising and I love sharing that experience.
Cars the Video Game is a treasure, and the Xbox 360 version make the visuals such a knock out of the park! The one thing holding the game back is just texture resolution and the 360 bridges the gap to make it so movie-like.
you made me wanna pick the game up again soon, i need to relive this game from my childhood
theres something about 2000s movie/show tie-in games that had a sense of care and effort, spongebob bfbb, barnyard and of course cars, are standouts to me
20:45 Bro, you just made so much sense....
Definitely opened my eyes and have seen this first hand inside a metal shop😂
This game was literally my childhood. I didn’t know how to use a memory card so I would literally start from the beginning every time and my goal was to get the dinoco livery every time. I also have unhealed trauma from the Frank stealth missions, would literally get my dad or brother in and run out of the room but still peeking to make sure they don’t get caught.
Similarly, Cars was also my first video game, introducing me to my favourite console, the GameCube back in 2006. While I had numerous other movie tie-in games for the system, something always felt special about Cars when compared to the others, due to the phenomenal open world, memorable soundtrack, and a plot that built off the film which had been engraved into my mind. Fantastic video as always, Luke!
No hate but why didn't your mom wait to get the wii or something
Absolutely loved this video, found a new Appreciation for cars the video game
I remember seeing a video about this game appear in my recommendation feed, can’t wait to see what this game was about (especially as I’m super nostalgic about Cars; it’s not the worst of the classic Pixar era imo)
1:33 BEST MOVIE INTRO EVER!
It's kind of surprising that we never got diecast models of any of the video game characters, considering Cars is a franchise known for making marketable toys of just about any character from the three movies and spin-offs. They'll make toy versions of the most random, obscure background characters who you won't even notice and show up for like two seconds never to be seen again. I think at some point Mattel _did_ release a three pack of some of Mater's cousins, but that's essentially it.
I'm still dreaming of getting Diecast Fletcher lol
@@usualblokeluke At the very least they released a diecast of Bubba from Race-O-Rama. I guess if you want to get technical, they did _sort of_ release Otto, Emma, and Koji from Mater National in some form... just not as themselves, since their designs were reused as background characters in the Tokyo Mater short.
I never had this specific game, but I had Maternational on my old Wii. Seeing this video reawakened the nostalgic sound of the ka-chow from hitting bolts in my memory
The amount of times just doing laps on two wheels to get money for paint jobs needed that dinoco blue McQueen
Cars the video game being released three days before the movie came out reminds me of when the Thomas & Friends series 2 episodes aired on television two days before the book titled ''More About Thomas the Tank Engine came out''.
This game brings so many memories back to me. So much fun it brought, but there was one thing that always bothered me that Cars 2 and Cars 3 Driven to Win did better……The way you jump.
Flicking the joystick or D-pad up and down kinda annoyed me, like come on why do that when you could’ve at least map it to a button like those latter games did or just click down on the joystick? Especially when I try to do it, it just doesn’t register in all the time, leading to moments where I try to jump to take a shortcut, my character doesn’t jump and just slams into a wall or the small bump that for some reason I discovered I was able to clear without jumping whatsoever.
Nowadays I’ve gotten over it….but little kid me….got pretty frustrated when it came to…*Sarge’s Boot Camp.* I hated that because I never knew the jumping was a thing, and trying to understand when to time it on those training courses, AND beat all the tracks under the time limit, I was about ready to fling my 360 controller across the room.
Man, the IF900HP and VROOOOM cheat codes are burned into my mind.
8:28 Aha I know that! that's a game grumps line you can't hide that from me! Also good video. Also, I'm shocked at how much this game fits into the canon of the Cars franchise. McQueen won multiple piston cups (probably one of them being the one he won at the end of this game), Lighting is a world-traveling race car, which he was stated to be gone for a while in Cars 2, that little railway track which later appears again in cars 2 but who knows this might have been all unintentional
amazing work Luke
You are so insane you spent 76 minutes talking about _Cars: The Video Game_ of all things. I am very jealous.
I'm glad that you were able to find something that meant so much to you.
Great video! This really opened my eyes to see how much effort was put into this game.
I got the game delivered to me and my family after apparently winning a competition. Neither me nor my parents remember entering the competition
This is pretty much the exact video I was going to make , I couldn't agree more that these 3 games are the canon Cars 2 that we deserved!
My brother and I love trying to beat each other in the pit stop mini game. Each of us furiously inputting the button prompts as fast as humanly possible I can still beat him now and then, but my age is starting to get the better of me
Nice to see a big video about this game. Had alot of movie tie in games back then and this was always one of the goats
5:47 Well, I got recommended this video, so I guess it was the charm.
Great video on the Cars 1 video game! It's super underrated like the first Cars movie and might be the best movie tie-in game alongside Goldeneye N64.
I remember my dad renting the Wii port when I was 6 or 7 and due to the darn motion controls we were pretty bad at it, so we only played it for 5 minutes. It wasn't until last year when I got a preowned Xbox 360 that I replayed the X360 port in a new perspective after 11 years and I was rather impressed with it. I enjoyed the open world feel it had even if the game took place mainly in a vast desert.
After playing the Cars 2 game and Cars 3: Driven to Win, I enjoyed both of them, the first Cars game is still the best (while the latter two felt more like Twisted Metal wannabes).
The Wii version does have an alternate control scheme which allows you to use the nunchuck, so you don't really have to use motion controls except for jumping.
It’s like we have the same mind lol I do the exact same thing at 46:06 stopping dead in front of the finish 😆 I also know quite a bit more of the movie word for word than I care to admit. 😅 Great vid.
this game was my childhood, it still influences me to this day, I'd have so much to write about it, I could write a whole book, maybe even several, it's literally been such an important thing in my life, I love it so much and it's still the world I'm mentally in, radiator springs is my home, and it will forever be. I hold it dear to my heart, and I'll probably never let it go
I loved how the cast of the movie came back and reprised their roles. Especially the DRH, they’re my favorite characters from the movie.
Man me and my brother have some good memories with cars. Saw it in theaters,got the game,collected the toys. A core memory is my brother throwing my die cast “Boost” (my favorite one) and it cracking my head opened,I’ve cracked it like 2 or 3 times before. The wing got stuck in my head,funny hospital visit tbh
Dude this was one of the first games my family got for our Wii. We didn’t do any of the racing or completed the story, we just drove around Radiator Springs and Tractor Tipping (it was our favorite scene). Despite possibly only completing 1% of the game we loved it!
Cars Video Game - Radiator Springs Theme ive had this theme in my head since this video been online amazing review also going to get my PS2 back connected and play cars again thank you and prob play some hit and run as well
I had this game too. Unfortunately my PS4 doesn’t work anymore. I do have Cars 3: Driven to Win on the XBOX ONE though!
I had a video idea to cover this game in fine detail to the passion poured into this game, but you nailed this. I see no need to do that now. Very well structured video covering the unique history of this game!
While admittedly I took a few days to get to this, I was actually hooked and watch the entire thing through. This game reminds me a lot about the video game for the movie “planes” with its similar racing format.
This video also motivates me a little more to continue working on something different compared to my “recent” films. Good work!
Thank you very much!
And best of luck on whatever it is you're working on!
Noticed that nobody talked about the DS version.
Or the PSP version for that matter
@unisonproto I don't think either of those versions sold very well. At least not in the UK. Maybe the US moved more copies.
While being the cars game I’ve played the least, I can’t deny that this is still very fun to go back to very now and again
I’m very glad you mentioned how the game feels like a natural successor to the first film, it’s also something that I really love about its sequel games: Mater national and race-o-rama, they also took that one line of dialogue where lightning says that he’s getting his own racing headquarters in radiator springs and went full throttle with it, in the first game, they were already alluding to it with a sign that says that Lightning’s racing headquarters is coming soon, in Mater-national, the exact place where that sign is is replaced with a construction site where the headquarters will be built and as you progress through that game, the headquarters’s construction makes more progress alongside a new racing stadium in radiator springs that is also under construction too where in each last race of each chapter, it also becomes more and more fleshed out with the final race of the game taking place in the fully constructed racing stadium and the final cutscene being a group photo in front of the fully constructed headquarters. And then race o rama doesn’t even forget about any of that by having lightnings racing stadium be a major location and also being one of the new hub worlds you can freely explore and I love that so much, I love that you get to explore this area that you spent an entire game getting to see slowly built over time is just so cool, I can’t think of any other group of liscened games that have such a strong sense of connectivity like the first 3 cars games and it’s one of the things that makes those game so unique compared to other liscenced games along with all three of those games being good in their own ways.
Where is the sign that says the racing headquarters is coming soon?
Is it that huge billboard of McQueen that you see when you enter the town?
Watching this made me miss the old days and then when seeing the lizzy post card cutscene it literally made me shot up and had a memory unlocked but as a kid never made progress but enjoyed the game and can remember me with my older brother doing the tractor tipping game together
I had this game as a kid, it was so much fun to explore radiator springs, the worst part imo was the offical races because the tracks were so simplistic compaired to the races that used the open world maps,
The editing made me laugh so many times
This game takes me back to the days of my youth, when my sister and I stayed over at our Nana and Pop's and played this game on their old PS2. Honestly? Such a banger game
Reminder!!! Don’t let unlucky tug beat u in the retrospective series this Friday!!!
This Friday?
@@usualblokeluke yeah he uploads every other Friday, and he might post a season 11 retrospective soon
Dude I’ll never forget playing this the minigames are so good and forever will be my fav thing about it
I LOVE this game. I am still obsessed with the soundtrack. “What I Want” by Autopilot Off is still deep in my heart. I’m so happy that someone finally made this type of video about this game
What a brilliant review, I used to own the GB version of the game but I just currently use the PS2 Version. May even play this on Monday.
First off I hope this gets tractions cause while I love your Thomas stuff. The passion you bring to other media is great. Second I just love how much love was put into this game. Like even some of the scenes you showed made me laugh, cry, and just feels things. Which proof of really good art.
this game actually made me invested in lightnings character as someone who isnt that fond of the movies. thats actually impressive
Awesome Video!🙌🌟
This game that got me to gaming and i used to played it everyday everytime the disc scratches and doesn’t work i get another copy of the game and i repeat the cycle this game is my childhood and my life just last week i got the psp version by playing it on a psp emulator on my ipad and i was so happy i got to play it because it was my first time playing that version.
25:33 Nice to see my suspicions that you're a Caddy fan are correct
A remaster of this with proper graphics would look so good.
Great video, I’ll miss joe ranft I can see why they wanted to pay respect for him by deciding not to include the characters he voiced but since his brother Jerome voiced red in cars 3 he could voice wheezy in toy story 5
It’s been so long since I’ve watch cars
Had it on the ole GameCube. Man I miss them days
Have you noticed that Thomas and Friends Seasons 1-4 and Cars (2006) star the late George Carlin?
Another thomas fan wow i also grew up with thomas and i love cars as well i got all 3 movies on blu ray steel book and i got thomas vhs tapes
I played the crap out of this game when I was younger, I remember not doing any of the racing and just driving around and crashing, I was 3 when the movie and game came out, still my favorite animated film
The soundtrack still slaps to this day