Hey everyone, this game contains fairly intense flashing lights and patterns, so if you have issues with photo-sensitivity maybe steer clear. Also I just wanna link this song from the game's soundtrack because it's amazing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN2nqNFyvr--c3U.html Thanks for watching as usual :)

Vin Diesel probably kicking himself for not trademarking 'car-fu'

This movie was a masterpiece, it stays true to source material while adding new things to it. Visually just spectacular and overall badass, plus they got John Goodman to play in it so it's a plus point

That Wii version especially is seriously visually impressive, not just for the time, but in general. If some low-budget or indie game came out today looking that good, I would probably still comment on the impressive visuals. Extremely impressive they pulled that off and plays well to the Wii's strengths.

Imagine having this game having a complete modern remake with a few new racers, new tracks, 60 FPS locked, a track creator, a T180 creator, new Car-Fu attacks, and full online support...

Man I absolutely loved this game as a kid, criminally underrated

Speed racer Wii and Ds : Aka "I can't believe it's not F- Zero"

This game makes you *feel* like a 300 mph manga

This is the kind of game the racing genre needs to refresh itself

Alright boys, this is the closest we'll get to a brand new 'cars' review!

bro you just unlocked a memory😭i played the game wayyyyyyy more than i watched the movie/show as a kid.

HE'S GOING OVER THAT CLIFF

"Spridle? What kind of a name is Spridle! That's not even a word!" "Shut up Speed. Your name is the measure of distance traveled over time." "Haha. You all have stupid names."

Ah wow, I reviewed this game when I was on TV back in the day, thought it was a far better game than it darn should have for a movie license.

Wow, this is insane. Yesterday I vaguely remembered playing a speed racer game for like 10 minutes at a friends house, and here we are. This always happens with your videos :P

I had the DS version of this as a kid thanks to my best friend recommending it as "surprisingly actually really good." I was super into it and sunk countless hours into it

I remember when my ex and I went to Gamestop to buy her a used Wii. We hooked it up at her place, and inside the Wii was the Speed Racer game. I guess the previous owner forgot to eject the game out before trading it in to Gamestop. From what I remember the game was pretty fun, and to top it off the previous owner forgot to sign out of their Netflix account so we watched free Netflix for a week before the previous owner changed the password 😆

"Car-Fu" what a great concept for a racing game.

wow this owns

Speed Racer (2008) is one of my favorite movie of all time.. Sure it has chessy humor and so so acting, but the emotion this movie invoke.. the visual style.. it’s just well ahead of its time. I’m glad it got a good video game adaptation :)

Omg YES, apart from Mario Kart DS, this is the other racer I still play frequently on the DS. Cannot be happier that you're enjoying it.

When this movie came out I was on a speed racer craze! I got books, toys and of course this game for Wii. Man I was obsessed! And I remember really loving this game

Yeah! Check out the PS1 Speed Racer! It has some strong Daytona USA vibes to it. A funny quirk is that everytime a race finishes, Racer X does commenting over your replay and gives you advice based on your racing style.

Never saw this coming, literally my favourite movie and one of my favourite games! (the DS version)

Hot Wheels has two games on the PS2 that are really great I think especially for the time. Velocity X and Highway 35. Lot of great racers get slept on I guess lol

*shadow realm gameplay with even more heckers music*

I remember the time when I thought speed racer was a western cartoon when i'm just a kid, took me at least 12 years to realize it's actually a japanese anime.

I'm not gonna lie, the combat sounds really engaging and quickly hooked me. I wanna check this title out now...

Protip: when you're in that out-of-control spin you can move side to side on the track with the d-pad while you straighten out with the tilt steering :D

FUCK YES this game was my childhood! Super underrated game and movie.

when I was a kid and the speed racer movie was released, I asked my parents for a Lego set from the movie for Christmas. Weirdly enough, they bought me the ps2 game instead. Hands down my favorite license game and one of my favorite racing games period. best gift mix-up ever

I actually saw the Speed Racer movie in theaters and absolutely loved it as a kid. Showed it to all my friends and they loved it. I showed it to my little siblings in 2020 and they really liked it too. It's an absolutely ridiculous movie, but god damn is it ever visually striking and insanely fun to watch. Probably the best live action anime ever

Man I remembered doing dozens of hours on this title. Those were some great memories. Awesome combat mechanics! Would love to have an HD port of this! It was such a refreshing twist on the arcade racing genre. It was such an addictive gameplay loop.

Thanks for this. As someone who's country has gone insane, this video was just what I needed to de-stress.

I actually used to play this game all the time on the Wii when I was literally 5 years old. Mentally nostalgic for me

I've been waiting over a literal decade for someone to acknowledge how good this game was.

Wow, watching this was like opening a pandora box in my head. So many memories. I played it a lot, expecily becouse at the time I didn't speak english. Now it's common, but this was the first game I played that had a brazilian portuguese translation. My dad was a fan of the speed racer anime from the 60s, so I remember he trying to play this with me and being completely lost 😅 good memories

The car designs are very interesting. One really reminds me of the 2022 F1 car concept with the simple front wing and these wings over the front wheels and another one reminds me of the current FE car with the bodywork over the front wheels and these sharp sidepods. When I saw these speedracer memes that youtube recommended to me for some reason, i did not think that this franchise has a modern movie and some games about it.

Just spent the past couple days playing this in Dolphin. I'm blown away. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I never knew how much I wanted this type of racer, and it's now one of my favorite Wii games.

*FINALLY MY CHILDHOOD GAME IS GETTING THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES!!!!!*

Great video, this is a piece of my childhood. I have both the PS2 and Wii versions. The PS2 version seemed to have more content, a few extra characters and even an extra location, but could only have a max of 12 racers. The PS1 game is also quite enjoyable, I’d recommend having a look at it, though it is quite limited in content. Looking forward to the next video!

I loved this game growing up. Played for countless hours with my siblings and friends. I plan to go into the video game business, and one of my dreams is to make a new Speed Racer videogame for a new generation to enjoy. Thank you for covering this game.

yes! I kind of waited for you to talk about this game. One of my favorite games on the Wii. The soundtrack is fantastic. It literally has the best menu music. Watching those "car previews" in the character selection and listening to the main menu music still gives me goosebumps.

Me: I wish there was a new *F-Zero* game. My mom: _We have one at home._ F-Zero at home:

Thank you thank you THANK YOU for reviewing this game! It’s one of my favorite games of all time, and seeing someone really take it apart and appreciate it just brings a massive, un-suppressable smile to my face! Imo, you hit the nail on the head with every single point, and even made me notice some things I hadn’t considered before! Also, shining some light on the soundtrack in addition to the game itself was a great move in my book - the OST has been a mainstay on my phone for years now! If I could criticize one thing - drifting DOES have a use - it sort of puts you “on rails” like in Zone Mode, so it’s useful for tight corners. You can steer left and right with the D-pad too. Also, to recover from an attack, I’ve found using a roundhouse/spin attack can reset your spinning momentum so you don’t have to fight it as much. The game never says that, and it feels a bit odd, so it’s probably a glitch. The torpedo can also be used to recover quickly, but it costs a boost. I have nowhere else to put this, but you uploaded the video a day before my birthday and it just showed up in my recommendations today. Awesome!

Just searched up the soundtrack and it slaps

Thank you for talking about this game, it really is one of the best racing games I've ever played, but is criminally underrated.

I loved speed racer (show and movie) as a kid and played this game so much on the Wii. Thank you for covering it. It truly is a great game.

I'm glad this game is getting the recognition it deserves. Great review btw

I player this a lot during my childhood, extremely underrated

Man am I glad that you reviewed this. This game was so underrated! I loved this game as a kid and I still play it sometimes.

Never cared for speedracer before now. This game looks rad

Finally someone talks about this game! I loved this game when I was a kid, it was one of the first games I completed to the 100%. And the movie is the best thing ever.

This actually makes me so mad. Speed Racer is one of my all-time favorite films, and every time I watched it as a kid, the DVD started with an ad for the PS2/Wii game, and I wanted it so badly, but I could never find it anywhere. Seeing it go here, I can tell that I would have absolutely loved it if I had it as a kid. Well, what are you gonna do? I mean, I still want it, so...

the adobe flash game based on the show was really good

Rubberbanding is really noticeable, and it lacks different modes, but the best character is a monkey. 9/10 - Needs more monkeys

My good man I can't believe you didn't mention that Chim-Chim (the monkey) was a playable racer in the PS2 version

Honest to god thought I was the only one who played this growing up, glad to see I’m not alone :)

Tmw when you have an actual Skillshare ad before the video's Skillshare ad

Maaaaan...seeing this game after YEARS of forgetting about it is nostalgic as heck. I always remembered the very bright neon colors during the boosts. They still look pretty cool.

"I know car fu" -Neo

i had both the wii and ds games and i loved them to death, basically this game was my child hood. I'd just wish someone would make some mods for the wii game and update the game a bit. If someone makes a fan made remake of this game then that would be awesome, i saw the movie and 60's show as a kid so this would be something that would make me remember and live my childhood again .

That ds version is awesome, i played this a lot when a child

Now there's a game I put hours into way back when.

When this movie/game came out, we would go to the video rental store every week. For a solid month, I exclusively rented this game. I ADORE it. I see it all the time at my local used store and was afraid nostalgia glasses gave me the wrong impression. I've gotta pick it back up

Nice video, I suggest trying XIII. A first person shooter based on the comic book of the same name.

YESS! Thank you so much for doing this set of games justice! I have been playing this game ever since it was released alongside the movie, and it is honestly my favorite videogame ever! The movie is also my favorite of all time, and both games capture the racing energy and feel that was in the movie perfectly! Whenever a game comes out that is based on another piece of media, it's very easy to say the games makes you "feel like you're in the universe of the movie/show/comic", but most of the time it's simply not true. ("feel like batman" lol) This game is the exception. I really feel entranced and apart of the film's universe when I play this game, it truly is a masterpiece of immersion and adaptation to the videogame format! For the Wii game, the visuals are absolutely incredible, and I find myself staring at the awe-inspiring location art and detail, along with the scale of the tracks and locations. They captured the movie-tracks in the videogame with a lot of precision, and I find myself squealing with glee when I drive around the same part that Speed drove in the movie, like the loops in Fuji! The audio side is another story, like you mentioned, the soundtrack is really great! The composer, Winifred Phillips, really blew my mind with the soundtrack. She had (and still has) tons of experience with making music for videogames, so it was no surprise the soundtrack was so good! I want to mention a couple of things that I want to share for those who are curious. The PS2 version of the game features an extra track set in a fiery landscape called "Skorost", which also has it's own music and visual style. The PS2 version also has an extra racer, the monkey from the movie/show, Chim-Chim! Funny enough, he has the best car in the game stats-wise! Recently, I spoke with the lead designer and producer for the game, and he said they were working on a PS3 version, but they had to cancel it shortly after the movie was released. He also mentioned that everything in the game was what they were aiming to add, so nothing was 'cut', except for the extra content that made it to the PS2 version. The reason why the DS and Wii versions of the game are so different is because they are made by completely different developers. I'm sure they probably communicated about some things, but it's very obvious each game was made by a different team during different times. Some of the cars have major differences, even from the movie, in the DS game! Currently, the way I pay the game is through a Wii emulator on PC called Dolphin. The program allows you to run the game at higher resolutions beyond what the Wii ran the game at. At 1080p and above, the game looks absolutely stunning! Everything becomes clearer and the visibility brings a new life into the game. I suggest playing it through the emulator because the scale becomes even bigger and the game is more immersive. Anyway, I could talk all day and night about Speed Racer: The Videogame! It's my favorite videogame ever, and I am so glad you made this video! Thank you!

The BEST reviews! The passion makes these reviews so much more awesome. I get nostalgia from games I haven't even played. GREAT JOB!

This nostalgia is just what I needed right now, played the sh!t outta this game

This reminds me of Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge in look and stunts and such. You should play it.

I'm so glad you make these videos.

I was addicted to Speed Racer on the DS, had some really fun times with it because of the tricks and the crazy courses

This show was way darker than I remember

Always wanted to try both versions of these games, now I have even more reason to =D P.S. hearing minimme trying to pronounce Brazilian names just made my night

I always love watching your videos and discovering new stuff like this. I absolutely love games like these. Definitely going to try to get my hands on this one after watching this video. Thank you for the awesome content!

Great video man! keep doing what you're doing

I playe the PS1 version back in the day, I was quite young though and would love to see a video on it!

Wow, that's impressive. I actually did play this game though. Pretty cool.

This game was so magical as it was one of the first wii games I got and that feeling of swinging the remote from side to side to hit your brother at just the perfect time was beautiful. Mario but trippy.

Great video, your stuff is top notch.

The movie ain't that bad. I don't know that the fuck everyone's problem about the film itself

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Got this as an xmas gift as a kid and had the lowest expectations for it since I assumed it was one of those $15 throwaway shovelware games. But like you said it was surprisingly good and I played the hell out of it. I finally gave the movie a chance after playing this and became a huge fan of the franchise! Also, did anyone else think they dropped the ball by naming it Car Fu instead o Carate?

Thank you for showing the world this. One my favorite ps2 games that I recently got back into. The soundtrack is amazingly composed and and Speed Racer is my favorite movie ever

YO! Got this as a kid and found it really hard. I really enjoyed it. You made me want to go back and 100% it. Super hyped for that!

I honestly Watch the movie and played a game as a kid and I feel in love with the Speed racer franchise. I’m happy you made a video on this good work.

I'm glad someone made a video about this game. This game has been in the back of my mind for years. I love this game. The music gets me hype everytime.

Man, this makes me wanna watch the movie again. I feel bad dragging my dad to see the movie five times in theaters because I’m sure it must’ve just been a huge migraine for him with all the sensory overload lol. But I absolutely loved that movie growing up, as well as the old anime! The movie’s faithfulness to the westernized version of the source material is really incredible, and it’s just so much fun. This reminds me of an old Speed Racer browser fan game I used to play that’s probably way too simple now but was so much fun at the time because of the focus they put on the Mach 5’s car gadgets, like the jump jacks and the amphibian frog mode for underwater sections. I can’t tell you how awesome it would be to get a new Speed Racer game done right for modern consoles, especially if it included more life sim-style elements between races like somewhere between Sakura Wars and Persona. I’m actually not much for racing games in general, but I would play the absolute hell out of that!

I was waiting for this, one of my favorite games from childhood

Bruv, you've recalled one of my fondest memory of this movie and the little car I get from Macca's Happy Meal

Thanks 4 reviewing this game. Saw ads for it years ago once. Didn't quite grab my attention due to there being lots of movie tie in games not having the best reputation in my opinion. Glad to see you had a good time with the Wii/PS2 versions. The car fu aspect sounds really fun.

I’ve been playing this game religiously since 2012 THANK YOU for covering this!

I loved playing the ps2 version when I was a kid. I t was one of miy favorite games. Just downright fun

I actually know this game more than the movie, I never realized it has a movie a few years later, then I realized it was from a manga was such a plot twist for me lol.

Now this is childhood i used to play this game on my DS as a kid and i grew up watching that masterpiece movie back then..thanks for the video

Played this game as a kid long ago. Extremely nostalgic seeing this now, very nice it seems just as fun as I remembered

im glad someone coverd this. i always wondered what it would be like if someone made this game more fleshed out or detailed like in the movie as the visuals, while hard to see and often epileptic and sometimes nauseating due to the constant movement was pretty good if slowed down enough for one to appreciate things like the track design, how marketing and logos are represented on cars and sidewalls, track entertainment and in-universe cameras capture the track racing when theres no people in the area, styling and cool features like environmental hazards and jumps. its one of the several games i always wanted to reimagine and create when i first played the game from a bargain bin as the first wii game i owned aside from wii sports and i still today think about this game and the movie to wonder if one day something like this would exist in real life. im not sure what always keeps me drawn to speed racer as the movie cause i frankly think its bad shit insane spykids movie visuals and design but on crack and speed and ends with what was an epileptic climatic orgasm (take it from me; when i saw the final race i thought it was a creepily arousing metaphor of sex to reach the finish line in every wrong sense and i felt uncomfortable at the thought alone) yet it still is 1 of 3 racing movies id ever watch for no apparent reason other than the typical "to get high or an alternative to sleeping pills" (cause it WILL hurt your eyes).

Yeah finally someone talks about these games! My favorite movie tie-in games from back in the day.

I uses to playctge DS version all the time when I was a kid, just seeing those visuals takes me back to simpler times 😭

So happy to see you talking about this game. I LOVED it on the Wii, since it filled a weird hole that F-Zero left for a while when I wasn't playing GX. Love the movie, too, but this game is wicked beyond belief for a Nintendo exclusive. Edit: Just remembered it was on PS2 as well, but I had the Wii version and it was nevertheless impressive. Edit 2: The PS1 game by Jaleco is impressive for '96, but it only has three tracks, all based on the same location with the last two adding sections to drive through from the previous track. It goes from a semi-triangular ring to the ring with a road out by a parking lot, to the full track with a tunnel, cave, lake and residencies along the mountain. You can also unlock cars that the other drivers use for variation, but you'll limit your traversal options. Speaking of which, since it takes directly from the show, you actually get to use the Mach 5's gadgets (the jumping jacks to get over fences, saw blades to cut through trees, treads for offroading, etc.). It's a neat gameplay mechanic, but obviously you only can utilize them while in the Mach 5. Overall, the game is nice, but the replay value is solely from time trials and trying out the opponent cars. I had the title as a kid, and am a diehard Speed Racer fan.