[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Before I start, I'd like to preface this by admitting I do have some bias with this game, it is and still is my favourite game to this day and I played it throughout my childhood. I think it has a fun varied catalogue of cars from Formula 1, a Jeep, a dump truck and one is even a throwback to the team's previous games Re-Volt, which you are more likely to have heard of than this game. I also really enjoy the tracks and their creativity, with this being a remaster it added more stages, 4 new ones to be exact with the pirate-themed tracks, and each theme consists of 4 tracks each; Some tracks also have the ability to swap from cars to boats which I think is a neat edition and future games in other series would experiment with the idea, such as Sonic Racing Transformed. The powerups have your standard expected variety from an arcade power-up racer, however, I wish there were a few more or some were stronger for their use case. I will admit this game does have flaws, such as some cars' stats being misleading and some tracks are better suited to be a boat vs a car. Unfortunately, the publisher of this game went bankrupt (Acclaim) and sold the rights and those current right holders from what I have read have no interest in the series, likely thrown in as an incentive to buy, which is a shame for the fans of the series and with racing games not being as popular as they used to be especially arcade racers outside or Mario Kart and Sonic's Kart racer, it is unlikely another studio will take a stab at it. So, in summary, I do treasure this flawed game and wish it could get a spiritual successor or a remaster, however, that is unlikely to happen as stated above.

Easily one of the best PlayStation 2 games ever. Even today it still holds a candle to games such as mariokart. This game even did transitions from land to water before marioKart! While it may be outdated, the level designs, sheer variance of RC carts and boats leave this game entertaining just as much today as it was back then! In addition, power ups are unique to the idea of the cars actually being RC, and as such are often energy based. But this isn’t always the case, as some vehicles have secret functions only they can use! While my favorite levels are the boat racing levels, another feature you may not expect from such an old game is a decently customizable track editor! While there’s not much to decorate it with, the customizability of it was very fun for multiplayer at the time! Finally, a lot of levels had challenges or reverse mode, which was also fun when playing against other people. A very fun game with many cool levels based in worlds, such as a Hollywood monster world, pirates world, loonytoons world (acclaim studios), or sci-fi and horror worlds! One of the few PS2 games I have and occasionally play to this day.