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Garfield Kart: Furious Racing announced for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC

Publisher Microids and developer Artefacts Studio have announced Garfield Kart: Furious Racing for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam). It is due out on November 5 in North America and …

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Publisher Microids and developer Artefacts Studios have announced Garfield Kart: Furious Racing for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam). It is due out on November 5 in North America and November 7 in Europe.

Here is an overview of the game, via Microids:

About
Garfield, the famous lasagna-loving Cat is back to take on Jon, Odie, and company in a no-holds-barred racing game! Choose your character and kart according to their characteristics and your driving style, get off the starting line first, and control skids to outrun your opponents. Use crazy bonus objects, like the pillow or the magic wand, to gain an edge and get over the finishing line first. Are you lazy like Garfield? Take shortcuts to overtake the other racers with the spring! Race your friends in local or online modes, with up to eight players on 16 iconic circuits from the world of Garfield.
Key Features

• Three Game Modes – Grand Prix, Single Race, and Time Trial.
• Multiplayer – Up to four players in split-screen mode and up to eight players in online mode, or portable on Nintendo Switch.
• 16 Circuits – Crazy races in stunning environments inspired by the world of Garfield, such as Palerock Lake and Pastacosi Factory.
• Eight Characters – Play as Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermal, Arlene, Liz, Harry, and Squeak.
• Nine Attack and Defense Bonuses – Turn the race in your favor.

View a set of screenshots at the gallery.

Finally, the long-awaited sequel to the cult-classic iOS kart racer Garfield Kart has been announced.
We no longer have to settle for trash-tier cheaply-made unpolished kart racers like Mario Kart, Crash Team Racing, and Team Sonic Racing.

As you all know, the original Garfield Kart released in November of 2013 and became known as one of the greatest racing games of all time, having 89% positive reviews on Steam. It originally was exclusive to the iOS store, but performed so well that they made ports of Android, 3DS, and PC in order to sate the increasing demand for Garfield Kart on other platforms, undeterred by the libelous reviews from publications like Nintendo Life, who gave the game a score of 3/10. One fan even managed to have logged 21,000 hours of playing Garfield Kart on Steam. If only we could all be so pious.

Now, after having left all of us die-hard Garfield Kart fans in the dark for so long, Artefacts Studios has finally graced us with a new entry in the Garfield Kart series, which is being publiched by Microid games. The official announcement can be found on Twitter here.

Nov. 5 and Nov. 7 is when the game wil release in the U.S. and Europe, respectively. These release dates are emere days before Hidoe Kojima’s Death Stranding, which releases Nov. 8 worldwide. I was looking forward to Death Stranding, and I really wanted Kojima to succeed after his unceremonious parting with Konami, but alas his new inovative experience is doomed to fail from being overshadowed by the sheer mass of the Garfield franchise. Such is the cut-throat nature of the industry, I suppose.

You can pre-order the game on Amazon at this link for USD$29.99.

 

[Fake]

2019 is the year of kart racing.

 

[MrCunningham]

I'm sure Jeff Gerstmann is excited.

 

[xGreir]

Is this what u call incest?

 

[theHFIC]

 

[stranno]

Garfield Kart vs Race With Ryan.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

This is a sequel to this, right?

 

[off duty ninja]

ORANGE CAT BAD

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Oh shit. Day One

 

[Xenon]

I played many of these types of racers and the quality difference between them is lost in me.

 

[MrCunningham]

ORANGE CAT BAD

The war on Mondays, has begun.

 

[Shifty]

But Why Tho

 

[LOLCats]

Lasagna boosters

 

[brap]

Race With Ryan >

 

[iconmaster]

It amazes me what Jim Davis was able to do with his mediocre comic strip. So many entrepreneurial speakers filling hotel ballrooms when it's clearly Davis who has it all figured out.

See also: GarfieldEats.

 

[Ichabod]

Meh. Give me an eldritch Garfield survival horror game instead, pls.

 

[MrCunningham]

It amazes me what Jim Davis was able to do with his mediocre comic strip.

 

[petran79]

I want a PC mod to replace Garfield with Heathcliff

 

[PSYGN]

Who asked for this

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

It has better graphics than Three Houses.