Sprint and Freedom League has you racing across an open snow-filled land, whereas Snocross gives you the more traditional track races that you would see in most other racing games. The main mode, Championship, has three sub-categories and these are Sprint, Snocross and Freedom League. In a time where we sometimes criticise just how much content games come with nowadays, it is something to applaud. To give the game some credit where credit is due when you first load the game up you are greeted with a ton of modes to choose from. If you couple that with the dodgy controls and you just have a really awkward to play racer. For a racing game, the last thing you want is a choppy framerate because it can be quite off-putting and it can affect how well you do. Considering the game will certainly not be pushing the Switch to its max, it’s not really excusable as to why the framerate should go up and down like a yo-yo. One minute the game can feel quite smooth and then the next it can drop below 20fps and it is very, very noticeable. Collisions with the environment can also wield some pretty weird, but hilarious results, as hitting something at a relatively high speed will more than likely cause your racer to catapult into the air like some kind of ragdoll shot from a cannon.Īnother disappointment is the framerate as it can be a bit hit-and-miss.

It just all comes down to how long it takes you to get to that point because before that it can be infuriating, so it may already be a bit too late.

Once you get used to the nuances of how the snowmobiles control, you may eventually start to have a bit of fun. Of course, riding a snowmobile is going to be harder and not nearly as smooth as something like driving a car on a road, but even then it all just feels like you’re never fully in control and for a racing game, that’s not really what you want. Snow Moto Racing Freedom plays and feels very much like an arcade racer, but the handling feels odd. While this game isn’t quite as bad as those, there’s still little to be desired here, unfortunately. Sure, you can look back at games like Arctic Thunder and Whiteout, but they were so unbelievably bad that I try to forget that they even exist. You don’t get many racing games that feature snowmobiles as the primary vehicle of use. But Snow Moto Racing Freedom is actually a rather unique racing game. You can probably tell what kind of game this is by its rather silly name, so I don’t need to spell it out for you.

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