With nearly all the fifteen achievement points earned during the Piston Cup races, the replay value of this non-Live title is limited. The lone achievement that may take some time and work is finding all twenty of the lost postcards throughout Radiator Springs, with many of them in some awkward locations; but a sloppy camera system may prove too frustrating to make it worth the effort. The game does offer a points system that, while meaningless in the scheme of the story, does allow gamers to unlock additional playable cars for multiplayer races, extra paint-jobs, and some deleted cut scenes.
The 360 version does have a few additional bonus games found outside the story mode. None of the three actually do much different or better than the sleepy mini-games found within the game; making their inclusion a minimal bonus. Both Mater's Countdown Cleanup and Mater's Speedy Circuit actually seem to be incomplete; as Countdown fails to show gamers how much time they have left, and the additional race has no display for the lap you are on or place you are in.
Cars is aimed at children and delivers, for them only. There is a place in the 360 market for a game made for young kids, but there is no place in an adult's game library for this. Anyone with at least a driver's permit should look elsewhere to scratch his or her racing itch, as the lack of realism and simplicity of it all will quickly bore anyone who has actually driven a car.
