Action Girlz Racing is a horrendous mess from start to finish.
(-) tilting controls are broken / track design is too cramped / putrid visuals and annoying audio
No one is really sure what's going through the minds of the staff behind Data Design Interactive. They've routinely released game after game, each using the same unchanged engine, and unfinished and broken by any possible means, with little intend but to create shelf fillers of inferior products to prey on the wallets of the ignorant. None of that is truer than in Action Girlz Racing, just a cruel bait-and-switch seeking little girls everywhere. Be a hero if you see them at your local game retailer looking to bring this wholly atrocious game home. Slap it out of their hand, and recommend one of the many other kart racers already available on the system: Mario Kart Wii, Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing, Cocoto Kart Racer, MySims Racing, and (God forbid) even M&M's Kart Racing would be a better alternative than this miserable game. It's absolutely awful in every way that matters. You've only got one life, don't let this game steal a minute of it.
If you're looking at the whole thing through a bullet list, Action Girlz does a respectable job imitating what other kart racers have made. You'll recognize the difficulty settings divided up into 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc, and there's a decent amount of playable characters and tracks to unlock. But you only start with four other the girls at launch, and only one course to drive on, meaning you'd have to unlock all the rest. That would be fine provided that playing through the game was fun, but all that's going to go straight to hell the moment you pick up your Wii controller.
The first issue you're going to pick up on is already enough to destroy the game, and that's the controls. Action Girlz uses the standard Wii Mote titling that was introduced with GT Pro Series, but the sensitivity is jerky and even twitchy. Characters turn way too fast and it's difficult to maintain control, and sometimes they even glitch out altogether and you're left watching your girl spin out in oblivion with no chance to compete looking at it with disgust at the game and yourself for wasting your time on this game. The truly horrible track design only further irritates these issues. It's nice enough that you have kart racing tracks out of places like back yards and schools, but many of the tracks have narrow corridors that can hardly accommodate three racers. And not to mention full 90 degree turns and badly placed objects near doorways and other openings that'll turn you over when you should just go right through. And considering there'll always be a rage of 7 other girls scrambling for the finish line, you're just asking for trouble. Even the AI drivers will make stupid decisions, blindly collide into walls and cause pile ups, and still make time to hit you with a random projectile attack and ruin the entire race.
It's almost as if nobody had any idea at first what the theme would be behind this kart racer and the girl theme was just thrown out the door in the last minute. All of the playable characters are much less identical, none of them have any identifiable differences in performance with their karts, and all have a similar vibe physically as well. You won't care about unlocking any of the other drivers. The item system is also deeply stupid. Launching cell-phones? Mirrors for shields? A banana and nitro boost? Save for some generic power ups found in every other, far superior racer, all those unique to Action Girlz are mostly just stereotypical objects that woman often use, and morphed into weapons. Actually using these effects isn't all that intuitive, of course. While struggling with the rotten Wii-Remote controls, you also have to shake the remote to activate anything, which doesn't make any sense when the controls are already as broken as they are.
And don't think the presentation is any good neither. It uses the same menu design as other games from this developer, further iterating that this was quickly shoved out the door with minimal effort. The graphics are shamed even by N64 standards, bland uninspired girls in bland, uninspired environments while still having frame rate issues somehow. At least it's all colorful, which is a tad bit redeeming. The same lenience can't be spared for the audio though. There's a single music track for each course which loops in seconds rather than minutes, and irritating voice clips which repeat time and time again from your character. You could at least change the driver if you get too irritated, or better yet. Mute the game. Or even better, don't play it in the first place.
It's already a crying shame that this developer thus far has violated the Wii's otherwise solid library with these continuous abominations of games. But the sickest thing about all this is how many of these games are aimed at children. Do children not deserve good games? Even the youngest girls ought to be apparent that there are better alternatives for kart racing than going for some random girly racer with a cool "z" in its name that's supposed to be cool or something. Unless your a parent actively against the idea of your child playing video games, then make sure your little girl comes nowhere near this. Or anyone else, for that matter. This is exactly why so many people have a bad attitude toward the Wii, so many good, overlooked games overwhelmed by crap like this.