Review: Coffin Dodgers (PS4)
Pimp up your mobility scooter and take on the Grim Reaper and his Zombie army in a race for your soul.Armed with a variety of homemade weapons and gadgets, battle your way through 13 unique & exhilarating tracks.
Pros:
- Chunky cartoon graphics.
- Full Platinum trophy.
- Download size: 1.24GB.
- Mario Kart inspired gameplay. Drive karts, Pick up weapons and eliminate your opponents. Melee attack is a homage to the Road Rash series.
- Options: Music/FX slider, Vibration on/off, Auto accelerate and clear upgrades option.
- Singleplayer:
- Story mode: Play through 5 championships with 3 races within each one until you get to the final face off against Death!
- Quick race.
- Time trial.
- Open world: You can just cruise around the world. Icons will appear where you can trigger races or do the mini game where you race around collecting items.
- Splitscreen: Explore or quick race.
- Seven starting characters with Death being an unlockable eighth character.
- Opening tutorial level within the story mode.
- Earn coins and exp in races by racing and taking out opponents and even hitting objects like cones and bins.
- Thirteen tracks to play through with each one feeling unique in its own way.
- Handful of weapons to use accommodating the usual suspects in these games. Rockets, oil slick, speed boost and guns to name a few.
- Wonderful cheery soundtrack.
- Melee can be charged for a more powerful and meaningful strike.
- Fast restart after wiping out.
- Attack icons pop up to warn you of attacks on the rear.
- Speed strips add a much needed speed boost.
- Obstacles on the track including cars, People and even Zombies.
- Easy to play.
- Best played in multiplayer for maximum laughs.
- Very accessible.
Cons:
- Rear view pans around instead of being instant and is really quite jarring.
- Juddery performance especially as weapons go off or pile ups happen.
- Only one controller layout.
- Cannot restart races in Championship despite there being an option.
- Not ablew to shoot backwards.
- Delay when pressing X to continue.
- Story mode is quite short with seasoned players able to knock it out easily.
- No online play.
- For single players there is little replay ability.
