Metacritic Games

Gadget Racers (Playstation 2)

Choose from over 100 cars and 120 customizable parts as you make you way through 25 city, jungle, desert, and underwater (yes, underwater) courses in the game known as "Choro Q HG" in Japan.

Conspiracy Games
Racing, Driving
Players: 4
E (Everyone)
Developer: Takara
Released August 22, 2001

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

67 / 100

Critic Reviews

85 Electric Playground
Compelling and long-lasting.
85 GameCritics
There's a lot of content here, and the game strikes a great balance between cute novelty personality satisfying technical elements.
83 Core Magazine
Gadget Racers makes itself infinitely more accessible than the intimidating Gran Turismo games, and therefore a wonderful racer for the rest of us.
80 Deeko
With countless upgrading abilities, dead-on control, outstanding graphcis, and cool courses, Gadget Racers is a game no racing fan should be without.
74 GameSpot
A fun, engaging little game, and it will have you running quick cash laps for longer than you'd like to admit--for the purpose of netting the next neat little power-up.
70 Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
It feels to me like a kind of Pokemon on wheels. [Nov 2001, p.154]
60 IGN
There are plenty of more exciting racers available on the PlayStation and the game is definitely geared more towards the younger gamer as the difficulty level on the whole doesn't really seem all that high.
50 GameShark
It's still pretty boring.
50 PSX Nation
Meant more for rental amusement than for full-price consumption.
42 Gaming Age
As it stands, the racing is boring, and the game really tries too hard to be something it's not. It's fun for a little while working towards that Lancia Stratos body you've had your eye on, but chances are you'll quit before you realize your prize.

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