Parents' Guide to Crash of Cars

While this online multiplayer car combat game has a certain cartoony appeal, its controls leave much to be desired. In Crash of Cars, you drive SUVs, ice cream trucks, and other motor vehicles around large open arenas such as a city or the moon. As you do, you have to pick up as many floating gold crowns as you can before you're killed by the other online players who are also trying to grab the crowns. Good thing someone leaves weapons lying around where anyone can grab them and that you can damage enemy vehicles by crashing into them. But while this may sound like fun, it's unfortunately undermined by bad controls. To start, the combination of super-sensitive steering and constant acceleration mean that being stuck against a wall isn't a matter of "if" but "when." Even worse, to use a weapon, you have to move your right thumb so far away from the right steering button that you can't attack and avoid being attacked at the same time. Also, while some vehicles come with different abilities (for example, the hovercraft can briefly drive over water) and have different unlockable weapons, these don't change the game much, and this lack of variety won't keep anyone engaged for long. As a result, Crash of Cars is almost as bad as getting rear-ended when you're late to work.