Secondly, this is a racing title, it seems that from 2008-2010 most developers have turned their sights to creating a racing title?.this could have been a good thing except that many didn?t invest the time and effort necessary to create an enjoyable racing experience. First up, this is yet another movie tie-in title, in a year of lackluster tie-ins, during a decade of truly awful movie tie-in video games. Let?s face it there are a couple of strikes against it, even before removing the packaging. I?m certain that I wasn?t the first to raise their brow and offer a quiet ?meh? to the thought of this title. The team has worked together on other Disney Animation based games including Bolt, Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons but after their success in developing a game for Pixar?s Toy Story 3 the team seemed to be the obvious choice to develop the newest Pixar character based game. Cars 2: the Video Game is also the latest collaboration, with Disney Interactive, from developer Avalanche Studios. In order to give us a feel for the life of an international spy, Disney Interactive Studios brings us their latest video game title based upon its Pixar movie namesake. It is only now with the theatrical release of Cars 2 do we get a glimpse of the shrewd intellect behind the awkward facade. While his complete back-story is shrouded in mystery, the many tales of his exploits have become the stuff of legends. While by no means a complete list, let?s try to break down the last 60 years the 1950?s introduced James Bond, the 1960?s gave us Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) and the Mission: Impossible series, the 1970?s saw the arrival of Steve Austin and Lancelot Link, the 80?s had MacGyver and Jason Bourne (in book form at least), the 1990?s were heavily populated with agents and agencies like Austin Powers and Jack Ryan (although he was introduced in book form in the 80?s) and who can forget the Men in Black, all of which leads us to the 2000?s giving us the likes of Alias, 24 and Chuck.īut this is not to be a story of what?s come before, this is an introduction of a new hero, the quintessential spy, the ever resourceful Tow Mater codename ?Mater?. We struggle to find a new spy hero and it feels like we wait to the last minute before we introduce the next great prodigy. But the one aspect of modern life that seems to elude us is that of the successful secret agent. Globally, we have seen an abundance of successful educators, politicians, auditors, intellectuals, scientists, engineers, philanthropists and business leaders.
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