Madagascar Kartz (Game Only)

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We bought this game for our 5-year-old son for Christmas as his first game to play on our PS3. It's moderately fun for grown-ups but very challenging for the little ones --I have 2 major complaints with this game:

#1There is no "free driving" mode where a kid can just have fun driving around and check out the tracks. It is NOT fun for a 5-year old to come in 6th place every time when he really just wants to drive around. This is his first racing game and we have to teach him about power-ups, tricks, turbo, and shortcuts and it's hard to do that in this game since it is set up to be hyper-competitive.

#2On Multiplayer mode you cannot disable the computer characters. I'd love to be able to just play one on one with my son in order to teach him the tracks but again the computer players make this very difficult and I wind up with a frustrated 5-year old in 6th (or 5th if I hold back and just follow him around the track)place.

I've been playing games for about 20 years, we have a PS3 and a Wii at the house and play a lot of games. I understand the concept of racing games, but thought that one marketed solely at kids would be a bit-more kid-friendly. They already had the game built--would it have cost them anything to put in a free-race mode? We were hoping to be able to have this game that all three of us could play on the PS3 but actually my son is so frustrated we'll probably be putting this one away for 6 months to a year and get him back on some of my Wii games.

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The one thing I like best about this PS3 game is it's more of a family game. The one thing I've noticed about PS3, it certainly has a rather large void of games the whole family can play (or at least watch in my toddler's case) but this fits the bill. It's a fun game, not quite mario go-karts fun, but still fun! The comments the characters make while driving are cute, too. I however probably wouldn't pay more than fifteen bucks for this game. The amount of play time isn't huge.

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My 5 yr old and I had high hopes for this game, but unfortunately it left much to be desired. I was looking for essentially a "Mario Kart" equivalent on the PS3, when I stumbled on this game. The graphics are ok, but the game play is poor. The carts are difficult to control and it just doesn't have the fun factor that a karting game should have. I sold it after a week.

A much better alternative is "Sonic & SEGA All Start Racing". I would rate that game 5 stars for graphics, game play, and fun factor.

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I bought the PS3 game for my son's 8th birthday gift and he just loves it! and can't stop playing it. It's actually a pretty decent game for younger kids, since most of game for PS3 are so difficult to play. If you have children in the age of 7-10, I would think this is a good game for them. I actually end up buying a second controller in order to play with my son ..:)

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This game doesn't have any innovation or differences from other Kart type games. You have little interaction with the environment. But, if you have children who are begining with Kart type video games this one is your choice because it's not very difficult. If they have already some knowledge about this type of games or ir you have some knowledge and you want to share with them, maybe you could find other choices in this kind of games on PS3.