The Race Game Review

The Race is one of the most exciting hidden object games that I have played so far. Very innovative game and I haven't found one hidden object as good as this one. Normally you need to squint your eyes to find the hidden object games. But you don't have to strain your eyes if you choose not to. Well, it's easy when you want it to be, it's also challenging when you want it to be! Well, how could this be? Read on....
You get to choose between two modes. Challenging mode when you want to be in a race play. And World Explorer mode when you want to play in a relaxed play. I've tried both but I prefer to in relaxed play since I can take my time to solve the levels.
The Race is about traveling around the many exciting and famous places in the world. When you reach certain places like Hollywood, Las Vegas casino or Grand Canyon, there are lists of items on the side. Just as the usual classic hidden object game, you need to find all the list of items. What makes this game special is that you have different types of tools to help you to get to your items. How about a Magnifying Glass to enlarge your vision to see clearer? You won't have any problem to see those tiny little object cluttered somewhere among all the other things anymore! This makes this game so nice and additive. The Magnifying Glass tool is available all the time even though you haven't gain any points.
There are other three tools to help you through The Race too. There is this helpful Hot and Cold Cursor that burns when you are near the first object on the list. While another tool, Compass, points to the list of object on list. Other than the Hot and Cold Cursor and Compass, there's another tool which I prefer which is the Revealer. It shows the exact location on the first object on list which is very useful one! But you need to find the items on the silhouettes before you can gain access to these three tools.
If you play in the relaxed mode, you can have more access to the tools whilst if you play the challenging mode, you still can use the tools but with restricted access to the tools (except Magnifying Glass which have unlimited use in both mode of games). For The Race, if you over click or spam click on the items, you will be penalized. Your screen will be black out and no cursor for 5 seconds. The penalization is different from the rest of the games and quite a nice twist.
During one particular level, where Statue of Liberty is concerned, quite an original idea from the developer which hides things on the statue bu just differentiating the color and shades which blends to the color of the statue in blue-ish and gray shades. At first I wonder how do I detect all it, but then I found out the easier way to find the object. Guess what? I just random clicked on the body of the statue which has narrow space and most of the items you will be able to detect! By just pure luck. Haha! But it's not always this easy with other levels.
The music is nice and in line with the theme. This game is about racing and exploring the world, so the music they play here is quite a suspense and catchy one. The graphic is great too! A very recommended game to play with. The Race has originality and nice refreshing change in the hidden game genre.