Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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Challenging and addictive car-building physics app.
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Go Car Go
What's It About?
GO CAR GO is an incredibly fun game of physics in action. Kids create cars from provided materials -- wheels and blocks of various weights and sizes -- and send their cars down a course, hoping to catch a star before crossing the finish line. Each course offers a different journey of obstacles. Kids can replay levels, which is helpful if they just must get that star, and each level gets more and more difficult. Players can share results via social media, though that's optional.
Is It Any Good?
Go Car Go is a fabulous game to help kids learn the physics behind moving vehicles (and it's also loads of fun). It can be quite challenging, though, so prepare kids for a mental workout. Kids who enjoy experimentation will love the game; they can try and retry each level countless times, each with new vehicle formations. A car that's weighted too much to one side may flip -- but on certain courses, flipping can be useful. Compensate by placing a third wheel toward the top of the car, or perhaps by using larger wheels that will grip better and help the vehicle right itself. Every level will have kids brainstorming anew -- and some will keep them baffled for quite some time.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Give kids access to actual materials (blocks, wheels, spools, boards, dowels) to create their own cars.
Take turns trying to solve the more difficult levels together. This is a fun and challenging app for all ages.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Science : momentum , motion , physics
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : hypothesis-testing , problem solving , strategy
- Pricing structure : Paid
- Release date : March 8, 2011
- Genre : Puzzle Games
- Publisher : Caravan Interactive, Inc.
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.1 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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