One of the nice things about mobile gaming is that it gives developers an easier platform to evolve and experiment with some of the games we fondly remember, without publishers fretting over retail reaction. Table Top Racing is a case in point, a game that pays more than a few homages to Micro Machines, albeit with a third-person take on the racing action instead of a top-down approach.
Still, the silliness you've craved is here in abundance amongst some pretty tight racing action. The soft focus visuals do a grand job of bringing tables and benches alive, as you skid your way perilously around day-to-day obstacles like cartons of orange juice, bowls and cutlery in the kitchen, and toy blocks and Russian dolls in the nursery.
Starting off with the very heavy and silly ice-cream van, you work your way through a series of table-top racing championships. Some races might require you to beat a fixed time, while others challenge you to catch up with a lead vehicle and then ram it within a time limit. Elsewhere you have the more traditional races, where a fleet of micro vehicles compete to be the first passed the finishing line. Success across the game rewards you with new vehicles such as jeeps, RC cars, and sports cars. Each has its own specialties in power and performance, and you can tweak things further by purchasing new tires with the game currency you earn.
To spice things up even further, each course is littered with mystery power-up boxes, and the first one to grab the box gets the randomly-chosen booty. The radial EMP blast brings the engines of any nearby cars to a temporary halt, for example, while throwing a bomb...
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