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Yaris

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Yaris
17
4.0 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 7 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 84 votes
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Game Info

Publisher: Microsoft

Developer: Backbone Entertainment

Genre(s): Racing, Driving

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Release Date: October 10, 2007

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Hop into a Toyota Yaris and drive it on crazy tracks loaded with stubborn obstacles, cool powerups, and intense enemy action. The relentlessly twisted courses in Yaris might have loops or even be tube-shaped, but the Yaris never has to worry about sliding off track, as it defies gravity by scaling side-walls and going all topsy-turvy. Equip your Yaris with an arsenal of weapons to take out your adversaries, but be careful to avoid enemy fire, because once your shields are depleted, so is the game. Customizable cars: Drive either a Yaris Sedan, Sports Sedan, or the Liftback. Collect coins on the track and outfit your Yaris with weapons, shields, and tire configurations. Game modes: Race and take out your enemies in either single player or player vs. player game mode. Wild tracks: Drive on eight different tracks of progressive difficulty. FREE download: Yaris is a free Xbox Live Arcade game. Play it today. Gallery feature: Browse through the game's cast of characters, including all the Yaris cars. Twelve new achievements and new Leaderboard: Twelve new achievements to unlock, and a new Xbox LIVE Arcade leaderboard for you to dominate. [Microsoft]

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

30

Video Game Talk

As the title is completely free, you should ask yourself different questions related to value. For instance, “Is the title worth the 17.5 seconds it will take to download it?” That’s a tough one. You could take out the trash in that amount of time, a much more rewarding task than playing Yaris.

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25

Talk Xbox

Avoid this at all costs. Simply put, it’s just a hair shy of being completely broken. Yaris may be free but somehow, I still feel ripped off.

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20

Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

Last time we checked, a Toyota doesn't come with a ruddy big gun. False, and very bad, advertising if you ask us. Still, it's free. [Christmas 2007, p.98]

20

Thunderbolt

Yaris might be free, but not even that can justify the space required to download the game. After all, what’s your time worth?

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15

GamerNode

I'm actually very fond of irreverent humor, when it's done right, but this, this is just awful.

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10

Games Radar (in-house)

Yes, Yaris is a free game. But that shouldn't be an excuse to put almost zero effort into the whole thing. Unfortunately, there are actually no redeeming qualities to Yaris.

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10

X360 Magazine UK

A festering turd. [Issue#29, p.118]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 84 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Michael M gave it a10:
Simply put this game is Microsoft's crowning achievement. It is their Space Odyssey, if you will. The best part about this masterpiece is that it is free.

Riyaad J. gave it a5:
Poor design, but highly entertaining in co-op with a friend, and an easy way to boost your gamerscore by 140 points in a couple of hours. not bad but anything more than the price FREE and its not worth it.

Mitsuho O. gave it a4:
This railed vertical shooter isn't too bad; hard though. You dodge and pick up coins with the left stick, aim with the right stick, and shoot with the right trigger. The crosshairs lock onto a target so that's one thing less to worry about. This is a RAIL SHOOTER, not a driving game.

Dolly D. gave it a0:
This is what you do. You race around a track while avoiding things and shooting things and trying to get coins. Four things at once with horrendous controls merits this game nothing more than a zero. The worst game ever made and only made to advertise the Yaris, a car I think less of because of this poor game. They could have just made a simple racer, but they felt they had to overcomplicate things to ruin it. Just plain bad.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
I wish I could score this less than 0. Toyota and MS should refund me for the cost of downloading this broken and painful excuse for a "game". It's complete and utter rubbish. A total failure on all levels. Not only do I hate the game, now ever time I see the car I'm reminded of this horrible botch job. Toyota needs to immediately fire anyone remotely associated with green-lighting this garbage.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
Wow, even at free this is not worth the price. Absolutely horrible. It fails at both advertising and as a game. Who ever thought this dreck would be worth releasing?

Nathan T. gave it a1:
The only reason not to give this game a zero is because it's free and you can easily delete it. I have played some fun free games in the past, but this game is just irritating. The soundtrack is bad, the controls are bad, the gameplay is bad, and pretty much everything else in this game is BAD. The only reason I tried this game out is because of the few achievement points you can pick up in the game, but that still doesn't even justify anyone downloading this.

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