TNT Racers from Keen Games, is another entry in the already crowded battle racing or kart racing genre. The game features three levels of challenges (sort of like a campaign), Time trial and custom race. While you can’t customize any cars you can choose from eight vehicles and eight colors.
Challenges are various sorts of races (but essentially the same gameplay). Some are flat out races to be first, others are based on points awarded for taking out your opponents or collecting some pick up on the track.
- Time Attack - Complete X laps before time ends
- Knock Out - beat opponents in a battle race
- Score Race - gain points for pick ups, damage to enemies, etc.
- Smash Route - break items on the track in the fastest time possible.
- Super challenge - reach X points in Y laps.
- Mine Field - finish the race before time runs out, beware the mines on the track.
The graphics are a sort of standard XBLA look and feel. Nothing extravagant but not hard to look at. The game takes place in several environments on a handful of tracks which are easy to learn over time. The environments themselves are very flat. Building have flat textures applied to flat surfaces and the grip on the road doesn’t really seem to change based on what type of surface it is supposed to be.
