Parents' Guide to

Cars 2: The Video Game

By Christopher Healy, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 10+

Great combat racing, but loads of gunfire and explosions.

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What you will—and won't—find in this game.

Community Reviews

age 6+

Based on 4 parent reviews

age 2+

It’s too scary

It's funny but the Car never has any clothes on and it's too scary
age 10+

A GOOD RACING GAME!!!

Although the movie is not that good, the game is actually very entertaining! There is violence, especially with the machine guns, but no blood shown. For a game that is based on a terrible movie, it is pretty fun!

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much consumerism

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (4):
Kids say (14):

The mix of spy-gadget combat and fast-paced racing action in Cars 2: The Video Game is a really cool way to translate the secret agent them of the Cars 2 film into video game form. While the fighting aspect feels a bit intense for young kids, it's presented in a way that is easy to pick up and incredibly fun and exciting for players who are old enough to handle it.

The game looks and plays great. There are loads of ways to earn nitro boosts during a race -- jumps, stunts, backward driving, taking out opponents, etc. -- and using those boosts for last-minute surges to the finish line can be wildly suspenseful. There's a nice big selection of cars from the get-go, and by the end, you'll have a staggering amount of characters to choose from. Multiplayer is a blast, too (even if, perhaps, a bit too literally).

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