Diddy Kong Racing DS

Diddy Kong Racing DS is an update of the old N64 game – if you were a fan of that – or indeed if you’re just enormously cheered by the thought of giant monkeys in race cars (and who isn’t?) – you’ll want to check out this new take on the fast and fun racing game, What’s new for the new platform, and will it please old fans and new alike? Find out when you read our review of Diddy Kong Racing DS. Click here to read the full Diddy Kong Racing DS review now!

Diddy Kong Racing DS - review
I t’s sad when developers feel the need to use the DS’s unique features when their game would be better off without them. Take Rare’s Diddy Kong Racing. Essentially, it’s a remake of the N64 title, but with a host of ‘improvements’ which are at best pointless, at worst downright irritating.

Which is a shame, as underneath all the tacky touchscreen additions, there’s a decent little racer. The game takes place on an island hub, split into themed sections – Dinosaur, Ice and other such clichés. Each of these contains numbered doors to different races, the figure representing the amount of balloons you need to collect to unlock the event. Balloons are gained by winning races and completing challenges set by mystic elephant Taj (returning from the first game, but with a more PC-friendly accent).

HGZine is a full, free to download magazine dedicated to Sony PSP and Nintendo DS gaming. This issue includes over 30 pages of games coverage, all written by professional UK games journalists. The information on this page refers to just one part of the whole magazine, which features the reviews of Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, Harvest Moon, Virtua Tennis 3, Test Drive Unlimited and many more PSP and DS games. Additionally we have a roundup of retro classics including Impossible Mission and Mega Man coming to the handheld platforms and news on he PSP release of Final Fantasy: The Lion War. There's loads more too, and it's all enhanced with video and multimedia. Simply click to download and you will get the complete magazine.

Please note that this magazine is an enhanced PDF file and is therefore designed to work primarily on the PC using Adobe Reader 8. We do not currently produce versions to display on mobile platforms, such as the PSP, as sadly we would have to remove a lot of the interactive functionality from the magazine.