Join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. With how the game is structured and no joy coming from the driving itself, it almost seems pointless. Nearly every car is a rival, and race types aren't predefined so you don't really know what you're getting into, so it's hard to say, "I want to open this track, so I need to beat this and that driver." You're basically just racing to race, and if something opens up, so be it. It's also somewhat confusing, as there's no clear goal ahead of you even though you know you need to beat these racers in order to unlock more tracks and such.
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You need to use day races to earn money and upgrade your car, for whatever nearly unnoticeable improvement that gives you, and then turn to night to race against other drivers. The problem here is that, aside from the game's highly imperfect driving system (which makes taking any race seriously an act of futility), the game is so separated between daytime and night that it winds up feeling disjointed. Beating them will eventually unlock new areas or cars for purchase, and some will gamble things like money or parts with you. When you shift to night, you're then able to head to a parking lot and compete against other racers. Winning these will earn you credits for upgrades and new rides, and finishing enough events at each level will open the next level for higher rewards. During the day you're able to compete in a handful of events, and it's up to you to allocate your few daytime races best. The game's progression system sounds reasonable, though it doesn't wind up making a whole lot of sense in the end.
To say it's infuriating would be an understatement. You'll start losing points almost immediately, and it isn't a small penalty in the least. Something else that seriously hurts this is that you're penalized for driving backwards, which sounds fine when you think about it, but if you happen to take a turn a little too sharply and wind up pointing directly at a wall, you'll need to back up a bit in order to straighten out. It also isn't very forgiving, so if you even as much as give a wall the tiniest tap ever, you'll lose points for the entire marked turn and you can't add any on even before the turn ends. Unfortunately, there are plenty of turns in the game that won't reward you with points for drifting through them, which makes the game feel more like a trick checkpoint system rather than a real drifting racer. While many of the game's challenges revolve around scoring points while drifting, you only gain points for doing so in pre-designated, marked turns.
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There's actually a decent, if simplistically presented, series of upgrades that you can make, but those too prove little help on the road.
While at the start you might think it's simply because you can only afford a piss-poor car to begin your career with, but even stepping up to an NSX or something similar provides very little boost in performance. Cars simply don't feel anywhere near as powerful as they should, and drifting requires speed, so it can be hard to get up to speed for a stylish turn. Another problem that directly ties into this is that the vehicles are quite slow. Drifting is unfortunately absolutely necessary however, even in straight-up racing as the turning radius of every car in the game resembles that of a yacht. There isn't a whole lot of subtlety therein, and that's exactly what drifting is all about. The main problem is that the cars are almost always in one of three states: stuck firmly to the road, braking with the foot pedal and sliding a tad, or breaking with the emergency brake and sliding a lot. We're a little hesitant to call it terrible, but it certainly doesn't meet the definition of good. Though its storyline sounds like the perfect setup to a fantastic drift racer, the problem is that the actual driving and, more importantly, drifting itself is no good whatsoever.
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