Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
released on Oct 19, 2010
Featuring fast-paced, multiplayer, family fun, Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales offers a large collection of pick-up-and-play games inspired by the Mater's Tall Tales animated short series. The game will bring Mater together with Lightning McQueen and the Cars gang for a new set of adventures, capturing the endearing sense of humor of everyone's favorite tow truck. Players will join Mater and his pals as they relive the wild stories he conjures up about hilariously unpredictable events that may or may not have taken place.
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This is a minigame collection for Wii based on 45 minutes of content (although actually maybe like 25), the Cars "TV series" that aired on Toon Disney back in 2008-2010.
7 of the 11 shorts are given 5 minigames that you're supposed to play with friends, but since I have no friends I'm playing it by myself.
"Rescue Squad Mater", the first of these, has a driving minigame that takes a moment to get used to, which transitions into a balance minigame that doesn't work since the way you hold the controller makes you walk forward and off a balcony to your doom.
The third of these is a "point and shoot" minigame where you put out fires, which was actually pretty fun, and so was #4, which was a "catch the falling objects" minigame, although there's a delay when it comes to moving left and right.
The final minigame for this short is another driving section.
"El Materdor"s first minigame is a terrible matching game that shows you where everyone is before the first section but then doesn't for the subsequent ones.
The second of the 5 is a sorta "capture the flag"-esque driving game where you steal a flag from a computer opponent. It's pretty easy to cheese this as the computer doesn't even try if you boost away from them.
Minigame 3 is a collectathon in which you collect roses while avoiding bulldozers, and 4 is one where you wave the remote around like an idiot to get the bull's attention.
The final minigame for this short, I'm actually not sure what you're supposed to do since it would rather show than tell. I was driving around trying to figure it out and I didn't get any points until near the end and I'm not sure what I did.
Weirdly, this section didn't use the tilt controls to steer, but the other ones did.
Short #3 is "Tokyo Mater", which opens with a painting minigame. If you run out of spray paint you have to jerk off your Wiimote and a forklift can get in your way and run down your time while you paint because you can't see what you're doing.
Next is a drifting minigame that uses tilt controls, followed by a Space Invaders clone where you dodge ninja stars (which was kinda boring) and a broken driving section.
The finale of this section is a surprisingly fun "duck and jump" section that speeds up as you play.
"Mater The Greater" is next, with a pump action game to start, followed by a jumprope minigame with more screen-filling distractions, 10 rounds of "Where's Waldo" for some reason and a run and jump minigame that just does not work in the slightest.
Finally there's another tilt minigame that has the same issues as the fire one.
"Monster Truck Mater" is the second-to-last set of minigames, starting with a repeat of the collectathon minigame from El Materdor but instead of collecting roses it's ice cream and instead of avoiding a bull you avoid just some guy.
Then it's another "capture the flag" game but with no computer players so it's pretty easy (except when the wrestler car you have to avoid drives on top of the goal).
The third of these is an arcade shooter style minigame where you spam A while your cursor is pointed at a certain point on a wrestler, with a literal fighting game next where it's you Vs. the computer.
The final minigame for this short is just quicktime events.
The last set of minigames in this game are based on the Sci-fi short "UFM", which starts with...a game where you knock down stacks of cans, and then a game where you shoot hubcaps at tires.
There's at least a minigame that follows the story of the short next, where you fly through rings, and a Frogger-style stealth mission, ending with a driving mission.
And that's it.
There's "Freeplay Mode" where if you get at least a bronze trophy in a minigame you can replay it to your heart's content (which I will not be doing), and there's a "Playlist" function which I can assume lets you make your own minigame sessions.
In the "Bonus" section you can see the worst concept art I've ever seen and character models.
Other than that, there's collectable pin badges, bobblers and snowglobes you get for doing certain things in certain minigames, trophies for getting a certain score in a minigame and money you get for getting points in minigames that you use to customise your character (which I also will not be doing).
Some of these minigames are fun but the controls and objectives on others are pretty hard to understand.
If you see this game for cheap you should pick it up but I wouldn't pay over £4 for it.
7 of the 11 shorts are given 5 minigames that you're supposed to play with friends, but since I have no friends I'm playing it by myself.
"Rescue Squad Mater", the first of these, has a driving minigame that takes a moment to get used to, which transitions into a balance minigame that doesn't work since the way you hold the controller makes you walk forward and off a balcony to your doom.
The third of these is a "point and shoot" minigame where you put out fires, which was actually pretty fun, and so was #4, which was a "catch the falling objects" minigame, although there's a delay when it comes to moving left and right.
The final minigame for this short is another driving section.
"El Materdor"s first minigame is a terrible matching game that shows you where everyone is before the first section but then doesn't for the subsequent ones.
The second of the 5 is a sorta "capture the flag"-esque driving game where you steal a flag from a computer opponent. It's pretty easy to cheese this as the computer doesn't even try if you boost away from them.
Minigame 3 is a collectathon in which you collect roses while avoiding bulldozers, and 4 is one where you wave the remote around like an idiot to get the bull's attention.
The final minigame for this short, I'm actually not sure what you're supposed to do since it would rather show than tell. I was driving around trying to figure it out and I didn't get any points until near the end and I'm not sure what I did.
Weirdly, this section didn't use the tilt controls to steer, but the other ones did.
Short #3 is "Tokyo Mater", which opens with a painting minigame. If you run out of spray paint you have to jerk off your Wiimote and a forklift can get in your way and run down your time while you paint because you can't see what you're doing.
Next is a drifting minigame that uses tilt controls, followed by a Space Invaders clone where you dodge ninja stars (which was kinda boring) and a broken driving section.
The finale of this section is a surprisingly fun "duck and jump" section that speeds up as you play.
"Mater The Greater" is next, with a pump action game to start, followed by a jumprope minigame with more screen-filling distractions, 10 rounds of "Where's Waldo" for some reason and a run and jump minigame that just does not work in the slightest.
Finally there's another tilt minigame that has the same issues as the fire one.
"Monster Truck Mater" is the second-to-last set of minigames, starting with a repeat of the collectathon minigame from El Materdor but instead of collecting roses it's ice cream and instead of avoiding a bull you avoid just some guy.
Then it's another "capture the flag" game but with no computer players so it's pretty easy (except when the wrestler car you have to avoid drives on top of the goal).
The third of these is an arcade shooter style minigame where you spam A while your cursor is pointed at a certain point on a wrestler, with a literal fighting game next where it's you Vs. the computer.
The final minigame for this short is just quicktime events.
The last set of minigames in this game are based on the Sci-fi short "UFM", which starts with...a game where you knock down stacks of cans, and then a game where you shoot hubcaps at tires.
There's at least a minigame that follows the story of the short next, where you fly through rings, and a Frogger-style stealth mission, ending with a driving mission.
And that's it.
There's "Freeplay Mode" where if you get at least a bronze trophy in a minigame you can replay it to your heart's content (which I will not be doing), and there's a "Playlist" function which I can assume lets you make your own minigame sessions.
In the "Bonus" section you can see the worst concept art I've ever seen and character models.
Other than that, there's collectable pin badges, bobblers and snowglobes you get for doing certain things in certain minigames, trophies for getting a certain score in a minigame and money you get for getting points in minigames that you use to customise your character (which I also will not be doing).
Some of these minigames are fun but the controls and objectives on others are pretty hard to understand.
If you see this game for cheap you should pick it up but I wouldn't pay over £4 for it.
This game sure exists. Best Cars game I own, but isn't saying much
it’s a mini game collection.
but I commend the effort of still including some of the cars video game staples like car customization and collectibles
but I commend the effort of still including some of the cars video game staples like car customization and collectibles
this is terrible no matter how much nostalgia one might have for it
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