Welcome Time Wasters!
Yeah, I’m back. I’ve reclaimed the procrastination throne. To celebrate, let’s check out Dream Car Racing Evo.
Dream Car Racing Evo is a racing game that allows players to build their own cars to race in. This makes it a bit of a physics game as well. Building cars can be tough and it can take a good bit of trial and error for players to find a build that suits them.
Personally, I like to build cars with a low center of gravity and the wheels as far apart as I can get them. I also added an angle lock to the bottom of the frame to keep my car from bending in on itself. While this worked for me, others might find more success in a different build.
Along with building cars, players can also upgrade them. Dream Car Racing Evo allow players two different ways to do this. They can either upgrade a single part of their vehicle at a time, or they can choose to upgrade everything they can at once.
Upgrading cars requires money and money is earned by racing (Sort of. There’s not really any racing in Dream Car Racing Evo, but more on that in a minute.) Players can select one of three tracks and try to navigate them to the best of their ability. Difficult terrain can make each course a slight challenge and if the player lands on their head then they have to start over.
Making it a certain distance in each track in Dream Car Racing Evo will unlock another. While “racing”, players can also perform tricks and collect coins that can be used later for upgrading their cars. There are also ghosts on the course from players’ previous runs. One ghost represents the player’s best run on the course and the other is the last run the player attempted. This is about as close as the game gets to an actual race.
The graphics in Dream Car Racing Evo are really simple. The character doesn’t really stick out at all and everything else follows their suit. I get that the game’s main focus is physics and customization, but the lack of appealing visuals hurts the overall package in this case.
The audio in Dream Car Racing Evo is like what you’ll find in most free browser games: forgettable. It’ll tide players over while they’re playing it, but only just barely. Honestly, I found that it was really easy to just shut the audio off and turn on music from my collection without feeling like I was missing much.
Overall, Dream Car Racing Evo isn’t a bad game, but it’s a little lackluster. The ability to customize a car is cool. The fact that the build of the car affects how it holds up on the track is even cooler. However, the forgettable audio, graphics and levels don’t do much for the game. The lack of tracks also doesn’t help. Give the game a few minutes of your time, but not too much.
Dream Car Racing Evo races its way to 2.5 GiN Gems out of 5!