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A great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: November 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I Got this game over the weekend, and my girlfriend had to pry the controller out of my hands to get me away from it. From the beginning, there is a lot of fun to be had. Many options and areas have to be unlocked, and finding things is half the fun. it's a difficult game at times, but it's still avery enjoyable game.

I am keeping this one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Great Game! You can play in adventure mode, battle mode or basic race around the track. I am having a great time with this game. If you enjoy the Muppets, you have to have this game! The music is very good; sound is good. Interaction with the other Muppets is a lot of fun.

1) Cheat Codes are included on the back page (If you are interested). 2) Several tracks/themes to choose from based on the movies: Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppets in Space, The Great Muppet Caper, etc. 3) Movie clips introduce new tracks (The Rainbow Connection song is recorded here!) 4) You have all of the best Muppets to choose from in your racing adventures

Muppet Fever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Muppets are just the best, and it is so great to see a really fun Muppet game(especially after that horid Game Boy Color mess). "Muppet Race Mania" is a truly fun and fantastic game for the Playstation. First off the sheer number of racers at your disposal is terrific. The games starts out with only a few but a cheat is provided to open all of them-so don't fret. They are all great characters too-Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzy, Rizzo, The Swedish Chef, and even BEAN BUNNY! What a treat(Bean rocks!). Also when you unlock certain secrets on the battle course you can use new characters to play them. For example if you beat "The Muppet Movie" battle coure you can battle as Sweetums. Anyway they all have a different kart that can be combined with another racer. There is also a good number of tracks to play(the stunt tracks are stupid but hey nothing is perfect), and by using the adventure mode you can access secrets that allow you to play all the course as a battle mode. There is even a Fraggle Rock course! No I ain't lyin'!The game overall is tremedously fun to play. Each Muppet's personality shines through. The graphics are great; capturing that whole Jim Henson atmosphere. The courses(some course have to be unlocked)follow the movies very well, and they offer lots of shorcuts and gameplay variety too. A little video is played before each one. The playcontrol isn't as tight as it could be, but it isn't terrible in anyway shape or form. And younger players can select an option that allows them the have the computer steer while they push the acceleration button.The games has a lot of play modes; racing, reverse racing, adventure(in which you drive around the course picking up items to unlock secrets), battle-which has a few modes of play-a boss battle mode(where you battle a "boss" character) and a chicken race(where you attempt to catch chickens. One flaw of the game is its lack of items. You only have a fish, penguin bomb, and a rocket launching chicken. But each character does have a special move that can be used to run over or slow other racers down.All in all this is a hot game. It retains to pizzazz of the Muppets and reinvigorates that kart racing genre(which has been lax for sometime). Little kids might have a little trouble with this game but little kids should be reading anyway. The price of the game is great and if you don't buy it at least rent it and give it a try.

Not the best kart racer, but pretty darn good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a big fan of kart racing games, I'll buy just about any of them. Muppet Race Mania is pretty standard for the genre, but it does a good job of standing apart from the pack with its colorful courses based on the Muppet movies and, of course, the fun characters of the muppets themselves.

The real treat here is stunt mode, which forces you to navigate some really tricky obstacle courses in loony muppet settings. These courses are more about controlling your kart than racing against time, and there are lots of clever contraptions to help you along the way. It's harder than it sounds. Some of the stunt courses took me a loooooong time to complete. It's an innovative feature that makes this game worth getting, even if you already own other kart games.

And it's a total bargain, too. How can you go wrong?

A Muppet lover's dream

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderful game. Although the controls can be very frustrating at times, there is so much to do on every single board, that it takes hours and hours to complete. There are even hidden bosses. I would highly recommend this game to someone who has a good background knowledge of the Muppets. The movie clips are a lot of fun, and there are many voice clips to make it interesting and fun, too.

Fun while it lasts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My son saved up his allowance for this. He is 7. ... My son actually loved it. It's fast paced, real fast paced. You have to be glued to the screen, literally or you will miss something as you race on by. He laughed a lot, but I am pretty sure he never quite figured out what he was doing. He stuck to one area of the game a lot, and I think it may be due to the fact that the other areas were a bit confusing. Thats makes for a difficult decision then. Most 7 year olds are very adept at playing and figuring out video games..... so should I reccomend this? Yes, for the money and the laughs, it's well worth it. In a world filled with many many violent video games, seeing the Muppets zoom on by was rather refreshing for a change. He does not play it a lot, but when he does, he plays for more than 30 minutes if we let him.

Okay Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have always beena fan of The Muppets but i was a bit unsure about whether or not to buy this game. I purchased this game in the end as it was quite cheap and i thought that if i didnt like it that i hadnt wasted much money, it turned out that i loved this game. You take on the role of any of 25 muppets and race throughout 24 tracks all taken from the muppet movies(Christams carol tracks are good). using funny weapons to try and get the upper hand on your oonents. Worth Buying

Race Mania is fun for the whole family

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has something for everyone. Not only does my six year old son love it (and plays forever), but I enjoy it too. As fans of the Muppet Show, we get a kick out of playing our favorite characters and throwing chickens as the ones we dislike. There are tons of different racing courses, and vehicles, so it is like playing a different game each time we turn it on. There are also clips from various Muppet movies shown at the start of each course. The graphics are great with much detail. We love this game!!

Hard to control

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is very difficult and the racers are hard to control. I got this for my daughter as a Christmas gift in 2000 and she was 7-1/2 at that time. She tried to play it several times and has found it very difficult and frustrating to play. I've tried playing it myself and found it very difficult to control. It definately is not a Crash Team Racing, which was easier to play.

Unless you can get this game at a substantially reduced price or for free I wouldn't waste the money on it as it is a difficult game to play & control.

Not a kart racing game, but fun no less

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After racing around the course, and completely losing control, I got kind of bored with this game. But then I found the Adventure mode, which is kind of hidden, and I started to really enjoy this game. The movie extras are awesome. But if your looking for a game that is just pure racing, this isn't for you. You have missions on each course, and it takes time to figure them out. Then you get to race. I really enjoyed it.

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