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Great Race – Route 66 – Racing Game Review
Great Race – Route 66 is a Racing/Travel/Casual game from Part Time Monkey Oy, first launched in 7th November 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 389+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Great Race – Route 66 Stand Out
Cruise across America on the famous Route 66, all the way from lush Illinois to the shores of California!
Choose your favourite Classic Car from a vintage collection and beat the competition, but remember to stop every now and then to enjoy the attractions along the way.
- Road trippin' at its finest!
- Boost and destroy opponents!
- Perform tricks, such as Barrel Roll, 360, Long Air, Crash and Destruction!
- Cruise through 8 U.S. states!
- Unlock all 15 vintage cars!
- See real attractions on Route 66!
- Experience dawns, days, sunsets and nights!
- Never lose your progress with iCloud Backups!
Be aware that after playing this game you might want to do the road trip in real life…
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Great Race – Route 66 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th January 2019
Recent improvements include:
- Boost added, double-tap to use it!
- Destroy other cars when Boosting!
- Perform Tricks such as Barrel Roll, 360, Long Air, Crash and Destruction!
- Trick-based unlocking for Cars
- Collect coins along the way
- Car Stats visible in Garage view
- Splash screen added
- Fixed audio issues
- Surprise Monkey Head in main menu!
- "Continue" feature won't put you in a bad place anymore
- You can't fall through the ground anymore
Download & Availability
Great Race – Route 66 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Great Race – Route 66 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We never knew about Route 66 until playing this game. Its interesting and educational! It makes you feel like youre a part of history when you play! Thank you for making this! By the way, what is the main title theme song called? We love that music! It combines both sadness and strength making you feel even more like youre a part of the history involved! Please make another of these.
Love this game so much, you guys did an amazing job!! We wish there were more Route 66 games.
As a person with a large penis and an even larger personality we found this game to be very entertaining and enjoyable we would however liked to see more road a longer game we mean this boner isnt gonna jerk itself off.
We love this game please update it please add more cars and everything we love it so much you should get it its God.
We like the game, but there are some things we wish would change. When we are driving along, the game feels less like a nostalgic cruise and more like some post-apocalyptic maneuvering game, what with all the scattered detritus and vehicles we have to avoid. Just lessen some of the obstacles on the road, they kind of ruin the games feel. Also, we feel like once you are on the final stretch of road, heading towards the Santa Monica Pier, the road here should be lined with homes and buildings, as in reality this is a very urbanized area. Also, it would be interesting to see intersections placed in the game. Not ones you can drive down, but ones that are just there for scenery. Please consider our requests.
First problem its very glitch some times if you hit a ramp when you land your car glitches hard we wouldnt think this was a problem if fences didnt exist because you just get stuck behind a fence and the forcing to the road makes it so even if you land outside a fence if a car is in the way you cant get back on the road. Second problem is the ai cars the ai cars get stuck everywhere which is so annoying and if your going fast like 50 or 60 mph you die on contact unless you body but they are blocking narrow paths so you die anyways. Ok now the suggestion so we would think this game would be way better if you had a endless mode and if there is already then make it accessible from the beginning other than that great game.
When we played a while back, there was one thing wrong. Sometimes when we drove, the plants stretched and glitched.
Plz add a cheeper in app purchase to remove adds or create a premium version with no adds, we prefer to unlock the cars by playing.
Firstly, this game is cool ! Very fun to play , runs good and looks ok , however it is very broken ! It feels like the devs gave up on it halfway through making it which is a shame because it could have been easily one of the best casual racing games on the app store. So , devs please fix it cuz its full of bugs and glitches and the gameplay still needs some work.
Graphics are colorful and cute; gameplay is challenging and fun guiding the car with one finger… Of course that was up until the ads kicked in (30 seconds each ad and there are lots of them!). Removed 2 stars for that. Havent decided whether we want to pay $8.99 to disable ads, as thats quite expensive. Love the cuteness and gameplay though.
Unfinished graphics rendering. Missing textures and 1000s of odd lines in various levels. Boring game play. Its virtually impossible to lose. You arent racing, youre just avoiding obstacles. Most levels are so easy to pass that you literally dont even need to look at the screen. Clearly just a product that was cranked out with no thought or care for the quality of the game. Just an easy means of pushing ads.
What was a simple and fun driving game now has coins and other in app purchases. The update lost all our cars. Deleted.
This games crap every time we go to click on the app it immediately kicks us off the games crap 0 stars dont recommend.
Had a bunch of cars unlocked and bought that are now fine with the latest update and changer in costs. UNACCEPTABLE.
We used to love this game a ton but with the new update they took away all the cars we earned. :(.
We played this game in our spare time and really enjoyed the car collecting but im almost done with the game and had all the cars already. AFTER THE UPDATE, we now have no cars unlocked with two levels left in the game.. Im not gonna re-unlocked them now especially when we used to be able to get them but just watching a video. You lost a download.
Game is very enjoyable and visually pleasing to look at! Glitches here and there. We hope you guys add more highways routes (maybe through other counties) and more cars. Time leaderboards could be cool too.
Game is straightforward, not greedy, and pretty fun until the end (near CA and AZ). We have to give it 1 star though, due to how the other car AI works youre constantly put in situations where youre guaranteed to crash and lose. Idk if its illegal to make an unwinnable game but it should be.
Very addictive game. If you want to play something new, we suggest you give this game a try.
We want you guys (the developers) to keep updating this game and making it better we love the concept but it needs a little more content! You guys deserve a 5 star for sure.
It is really Gucci but we glich threw the ground.
You guys did a really great job with this! It is so annoying to see how much wasted potential there is usually with iOS games, but you really utilized what you had to work with, and the mechanics are great!! Great visuals too. Loved your 3D map opening. Soooo much better than 90% of the crap on here. Way to stand out. Good job! We look forward to seeing more crazy great things from you guys. -Ken Jones, OKC.
This is good. More update to add sims for the cars, more cars, and more locations. People say that it is meh but their wrong. This is a master piece that will live up to be of the greats. This game will always be downloaded when we are going on a trip through California.
Because its so fun and it only has 22 reviews so adding to it and saying that it is amazing.
Make a kart game with this style. It will be awesome.
Very nice game Graphics good rag doll Is Funny Everything in this game feels Good But you should improve more of your vehicle Stuff You should add More Of them like A tank a Ford Mustang or even You should make the game more exiting by Adding new states to go too Like ohio Virginia Oklahoma and more That would make the game more longer and fun Thanks for the game 5 stars Great to have this game we will play through the weekend Thanks.
We like this game it's pretty easy at some times and hard too the only thing we don't like is that when you flip over and land on the roof you spin like crazy.
The game is not quite what we expected but we really enjoy playing it. There is no winning or score involved, just the fun of driving a variety of cars over jumps and around obstacles down historic Route 66. Some achievements or badges would be great, like for finishing the route or doing it in one car, or in every car. Some other suggestions: more cars, different paint choices,and an option to run the route west to east.
Good game needs more health on car and be able to change the sensitivity but other than that great game.
The game is fun, but the graphics need work.
Ok, so if youre looking for a fun little time waster that takes no brain power this game is for you. Graphics are pretty good and the hardest part of the game is swiping left or right on the screen to avoid objects. Be prepared for a lot of commercials if you dont want to pay money to get rid of them. Crash your car, commercial. Unlock new car, commercial. Commercials… Still, the game is fun. We have run into a couple of bugs where the car will launch off a ramp and never come down, or accelerate to over 1500 mph while in the air prompting you to restart the race. It happened so infrequently we cant complain much about it. Anyways, hope others have fun with the game.
We think that this game really is good in all but theres just one problem , ADS , the ads there just so annoying, you get an ad where you crash , and if you crash three times , there is a annoying ad that lasts 30 secs and it gets annoying fast. But anyway we think the games is good.
We looked at this game thinking it would be another dont crash into traffic, even though it is the game amazed us. The concept of the game is to drive the entire way from east to west on Route 66, the story was fairly dull but the commentary is light and funny which makes a good difference. But the main reason that we love it is because the physics of the car and art are amazing.
Well we find the game to be very good but there is one issue that we have two issues about the game, first when you dont want to watch an add you watch one no matter what, and the other thing, when ever you do respawn after crashing, we end up right behind the thing we crashed into.
Its good, but when we try to unlock a car by watching an ad it doesnt do anything. Fix this and its a 5 star game.
Game is very simple. Took us playing a couples days to beat the game playing casually. Very low graphics and no point system. Just get to the finish and you win. Nothing special. Couldve been a good game.
How about you make the story that you and youre friends are racing across America on 66 there needs to be some incentive to go faster every time.. Possibly with car upgrades we like the mechanics but whats the point if were just driving to drive.
Only issue is that the game sometimes when going into the air with a car when going back to the road the game breaks and you sink into the ground.
Longer track and controllable speed is whats needed.
We rated this 3 stars purely for visuals alone. The game is so simple and basic its almost not worth playing. Its basically make it from point A to point B. No coins to earn! Nothing and we mean absolutely nothing to upgrade. You unlock cars by either spending real $$ on an in-app purchase or just by playing the game. Each car has its on mechanics. Some are easier to drive than others. To be completely honest; this game feels like its missing so much. As if the developers published an unfinished game. Each level takes only seconds to complete and by landing a few jumps, avoiding cars, and staying on the road.. Your done . Controls are very simple. Basically slide your finger left and right on the screen to steer and yet even with simple controls; controls are very unresponsive! We really think this was a great concept and amazing graphics but its just lacking a lot of content.
This game is fun but on almost every level,if we crash we fall through the map.
This game seems so unfinished and unpolished. The graphics are cool, but the rest of the game needs a lot of work. What am we driving for? There is nothing to collect, no coins, no gas canisters, nothing. Its boring. Not to mention the cars. When you unlocks new cars, that is quite literally what it is, just new cars. Not better cars, just new. And we cant even upgrade anything. So you might want to work on actually finishing a game before you send it out to the public, developers. Just saying.
We gave it a two stars just for the visuals. The game is confusing when you start alone and then you see other cars on the road. It makes you think is this a race or what? Also there a a lot of bugs. The game freezes when we try to control the car when Its in the air. One time when our car landed back on the road after jumping from a ramp the road disappeared and all we could see was green grass and our car was continuously accelerating to nowhere.
Its not a racing game, so the title should be changed. There are no points or coins to earn and no upgrades on cars. You dont earn time or other incentives for jumps or airtime. Its extremely simple in concept and execution. Boring.
We cant stress how bad this game is. We could write an entire essay dedicated to the cons of this game. To make it as simple as possible, the game is lacking so much content, and the controls are so unresponsive, and the A.we. Is absolutely terrible.
Ok so the game in general is sorta fun and challenging (dont get us wrong it can be aggravating sometimes) the game is very basic and there is really nothing to earn without buying it. (Except cars, which can be earned by unlocking states and watching ads) But heres our main problem, about every tap you make theres an ad. If the game creators could decrease the amount of ads and make upgrades and coins to buy them with, this would be a much more enjoyable game. ;-;.
Crash if Im not connected to the internet! Please fix this.
About 30 sec. Into the game we got a 30 sec. Commercial blocking the fun. Uninstalling now.
At the beginning it was a good game but after a time you cant get new cars and resume game if there arent ADS available to you!! There should be an option to bypass this.
The game is so long with no actual motive and each level gets longer and longer as you travel and there's nothing to do besides watch ads for cars. And when you finish it there's no prize. It just makes you start over again.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 189.74 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Part Time Monkey Oy
Last updated: 9th January 2019 | Genre: Racing, Travel | Developer: Part Time Monkey Oy