Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures

Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures
Developer(s)	AWE Games Rainbow Studios
Publisher(s)	THQ
Designer(s)	Jordan Itkowitz
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release	NA: June 6, 2006 AU: June 24, 2006 EU: July 4, 2006 UK: July 14, 2006
Genre(s)	Driving

Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures is a minigame collection PC game by American studios AWE Games and Rainbow Studios based on the Disney/Pixar Cars (film). The platform it is designed for is the Windows/Macintosh. It was released on June 6, 2006 and published by THQ. It was intended for the early Cars (video game) childhood market, ages 4 and up. There was another version exclusively to Target stores. It was more of an arcade style version made for all gaming systems. This version is for the PC/Mac.

Gameplay

The game consists of 10 activities and 10 championship races when players beat the activity's five levels. When players complete all activities, they compete in a championship race against another character. In those races, the transmission is manual, not automatic. There is no free drive like in Cars: The Video Game, it just drops McQueen onto a random area and he just drives there to the activity players choose. Each activity has instructions on how to do this and memorization is required to play a game like this. All games use the mouse controls or holding down the arrows. In this game, the player is Lightning McQueen. He and his friends interact in a series of activities and races around Radiator Springs. There are about 10 activities. Some of the activities are centered around Lightning's friends; some include Hip-hop It Up (Ramone), Sarge's Boot Camp, Speed Trap (Sheriff), Tow the Line (Mater), and a few more. After successfully completing these activities Lightning has to defeat others in the Rev It Up Drag Races. If the player wins all 9 races, they compete with Chick Hicks, Lightning's arch rival.