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The best of the current three RealPlay games, however, has to be Realplay Racing. With a motion-sensitive steering wheel, this basic but solid arcade-style racer is quite fun. Control soon becomes as easy as it would be with a Wii-mote as you get the hang of it. The wheel only features one-axis sensitivity, so although left to right is registered well, you can't dip the nose of the car over jumps like you can in Excite Truck. It's a shame, but when you consider you wouldn't be able to do it in real life, perhaps it's fair enough. We still wanted to, though.

RealPlay Racing isn't going to win any awards for gameplay innovation, but it's quite attractive graphically and it does check most of the boxes for videogame fun. Although there's no car damage, the crashes and sparks are impressive and there's a neat turbo boost, which is particularly fun over the jumps. Sadly, there's no two-player option on any of the games yet. Of course taking turns in Pool and Puzzlesphere is an option, but a head-to-head race on Realplay Racing would have been a laugh.

There will be more RealPlay titles released next year, including Tennis, Golf and Bowling. Here's hoping we get a two-player mode for them. The first three games will be out in the UK in time for Christmas, with a US release yet to be confirmed.

Justin Towell
Justin Towell

Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.