Penguin Kart 3: Race Through Time
| Penguin Kart 3: Race Through Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspiration(s) | Everyone in the game | ||
| Developer | Snowtendo | ||
| Publisher | Snowtendo | ||
| Release dates | |||
| late 2010 | |||
| late 2010 | |||
| Additional info | |||
| Genre | Kart Racing | ||
| Units sold | 19 million | ||
| Platform | Snowtendo Vii | ||
| Rating | ESRB for Everyone | ||
| Chronology | |||
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Penguin Kart 3: Race Through Time is the third Penguin Kart game in the series. This game not only has better things from the past two games, but it now has a plot.
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Plot[edit]
Several smart penguins such as Gary the Gadget Guy, Richperson and Fred 676, simply the Time Agency No. 2, creates a time machine. However, a bomb flies in(probably Explorer 767's) and gets sent into the time machine. The penguins calculate that the bomb will blow up and wipe out the past, which will wipe out the present and future as well. Many volunteers are selected, and they are to find the bomb and defuse it.
Ending[edit]
The character finally comes to the bomb in an ancient palace. He/She defuses it and saves time.
Gameplay[edit]
The game uses pretty much all of the gameplay of the previous games, but Snowtendo has added a couple of new features in the game.
The new features include:
- All new(and old) characters: a total of 150 characters!
- New(and old) missions
- All new tracks
- New items to bust your opponents
- New and old upgraded Special Items to get the advantage: 150 different Specials! Can you find them all?
- Different music for each Special Item
- BOSS FIGHTS!
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Modes[edit]
- Story Mode has the player racing through time to defuse the bomb and save time.
- Freeplay mode has the player to choose a stage and race against fourteen random opponents.
- Grand Prix mode has the player racing in a cup against 56(or less) other racers.
- Time Trial has the player trying to finish a cup ASAP and set a record.
- Battle Arena Mode has the player fighting against other players, popping their balloons, collecting coins, doing stunts, etc.
- X-Treme Mode has the player facing off against one of the fastest racers in the game, X-Treme Penguin in 4 hard races. If you best X-Treme in all four modes in a row and then beat him in a boss fight, you unlock him as a playable character!
- X Battle has the player race against SnoX -if his DLC in purchased- through the spooky Haunted Puffle Hotel! Win against him to unlock the 13th Floor battle arena, where you can battle Skip the miniboss. If you win, you unlock SnoX!
- Boss Rush Mode has the player fighting every boss in story mode. Unlocked after beating story mode at least once.
- And more!
Characters[edit]
This is a chart of how many characters are left.
- Starter: 49/50
- Unlockable: 41/50
- Hidden: 44/50
| Character | Vehicle | Speed | Acceleration | Weight | Handling | Traction | Special Item | Special Item Music | Home Track | Availability | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Kirby12 | Green Sled | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Spirits of Light | Link | Time Portal | Starter | Classic Character Star is ready to race on! |
| Richperson | Blue Sled | Snow Trekker | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | TBD | Time Agency No. 2 Base | Unlockable | Person usually spends time reading or studying, but he's made just enough space to race. |
| Questisbak | Diamond Blaster | Dark Blaster | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Link | Bombed Temple Entrance | Unlockable | Every evil character should still be let into the race. Classic villain Questisbak is unlockable! |
| Questixbak | Blaxet Burster | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | X Smasher | MLRPG3 Final Battle | Ancient Nightmare's X-Virus lab | Unlockable | The last remaining evil X-Antibody, Questixbak will not give up to destroy the destroyers. |
| Roger Lopez | Dragon Kart (as in last game, it IS a REAL dragon) | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Sloppy Joe (throws his Sloppy Joe Ditto bomb, leaving all enemies to the control of Roger Lopez for 30 seconds. | TBD | Forest | Unlockable | Roger Lopez has no mercy and no sportsmanship with his enemies. Not even when racing. |
| Cooligan2 | Hooligan Sled | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Giga Cooligan | Link | Cooligan2 Igloo | Unlockable | This Penguin Sure Is COOLigan! When all but one unlockable character in the game is unlocked Cooligan2 is unlockable! |
| Patrick Tea | Patrickomobile | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Burning Snowball | unknown | EPF Command Room | Hidden | This character is pretty shy... try find him! His snowballs can cause PENGUIN FURY! |
| Slidur | Rusher Engine | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Meteor Defense | [1] | Cave | Unlockable | He is not afraid to shoot a cannon at the racer in front.WATCH OUT!!! |
| Detesto | Chariot of Hatred | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | ?/10 | Saint Ellen (A spooky illusion of Princess Ellen appears over the player on first place and shrieks, breaking the victim's vehicle and sends them to last place) | [2] | Pengcertia | Unlockable | Uh oh! The King of Demons is back, bent on destruction of the penguin race! |
| Propellor Cap Trio | The Confetti Rocket | 07/10 | 08/10 | 05/10 | 01/10 | 03/10 | Trio Combo! (Fooly, Fuzzle and Folly attack in different directons in different ways.) | [3] | The Rainbow of Confusion | Hidden | Onto another adventure with your favourite foo- why did they give them the most annoying track?! |
| Zeno124 | Camera Kart | 5/10 | 8/10 | 6/10 | 7/10 | 3/10 | Golden Watch (A giant golden watch, similar to Zeno's, appears above the player in first place. It then crashes on the player and their speed will be much slower for 30 seconds.) | [4] | Plaza | Hidden (Found in the Plaza by entering the Stage and bumping into the filming camera; found by entering the Puffle Berry Mall and taking the shortcut through the cinema in the late 2015 update) (added to the game in a DLC released in 2015) | Zeno is taking a break from directing to--wait... that's a camera car... |
| Snow | SnoKart | 7/10 | 9/10 | 3/10 | 6/10 | 8/10 | Rapto (Snow becomes Rapto, losing his kart, and blasts hot iron onto anyone in front of him, covering their screen in red-hot iron. While as Rapto, Snow gets a large speed boost and also, if he manages to get to first, he'll burst a fireball at them.) | [5] | PuffleVille Loop | Hidden (Found in PuffleVille Loop by bumping into a Brown Puffle in the Lab) (added to the game in a DLC released in 2015) | Snow is in it to win it... he has the power to become a bat-- wait... his car's missing, he's... flying through the track? |
| Mr Cow2 | Tiny's Tank | 5/10 | 4/10 | 8/10 | 4/10 | 7/10 | Cheese Cannonball | [6] | Boss Battle Arena 1 | Unlockable (Unlocked after fighting him in story mode) | Mr Cow2's about to put the petal to the- wait, this is tank, there is no petal! |
| X-Treme Penguin | X-Treme Jetpack Sled Cartz | 9/10 | 8/10 | 3/10 | 2/10 | 2/10 | X-Treme Iceberg Tipper | [7] | X-Treme Track #4 | Hidden | "Time to take it to THE NEXT LEVEL!" |
| Wikipenguino45 | Wikimobile | 5/10 | 7/10 | 7/10 | 5/10 | 4/10 | Face Paint Squirt (Squirts a line of face paint in the track behind that gets blue face paint splat over the next person to cross the line except the player themself. The person who gets hit has their speed reduced, screen covered with face-paint and get their controls reversed for about 20 seconds.) | TBD | Skate Park | Hidden (added to the game in a DLC released in 2015) | The Penguin Adventurer is here to race! Watch out for that face paint, though! And he's--Hey wait a minute, where is he? |
| SnoX | X-Buggy | 3/10 | 7/10 | 4/10 | 6/10 | 9/10 | Doomsday Device (A doomsday device hovers over SnoX with a detonation time of 30 seconds. Bumping into foes causes it to move to them. When the doomsday device explodes, it leaves a pile of freezing liquid around the victim, trapping them and freezing them solid temporarily for 15 seconds. Anyone who touches the liquid also becomes frozen solid, but only for 7 seconds. This does not apply to SnoX unless the bomb detonates on him. Due to OP potential, it is activated when obtained. The liquid evaporates after a minute of sitting there.) | Music (It gets faster as the bomb gets closer to detonating, however, as long as an opponent is frozen, it will keep playing.) | Haunted Puffle Hotel | Hidden (In the Battle arena of the Haunted Puffle Hotel, you are on the top floor with Skip as a miniboss. Defeating Skip results in SnoX being unlocked.) (added to the game in a DLC released in 2015) | He's not so big-- he's most certainly bad, though. His Doomsday Device will wreck havoc on anyone-- and wait too long-- you, too, will be frozen solid! Be careful and cautious when doing evil works, kids! |
| Penguinpuffdude | Bouncing Castle sled fit for only 2 penguins | 6/10 (Surprising for a bouncy castle!) | 5/10 | 7/10 | 10/10 (SO easy to handle!) | ?/10 | Oxipie (when the opponent gets close to the OxiPie, terrible gas will cause the player to swerve and crash for 20 seconds. | Any song that matches the theme in the fairground. | Boss Rush Mode | Hidden (Touch any log with your sled and you unlock her!) (added to the game in a DLC released in 2015) | PARTY TIME! Bounce everybody off their way and BOUNCE TO THE FINISH LINE! Make sure nobody jumps on the bouncy castle though... |
| Xet | Moot Cruiser | 7/10 | 7/10 | 4/10 | 9/10 | 3/10 | S.O.S Sender | [8] | Planet Z | Hidden (Was hidden in the game's code but nobody found him until 2016) | "WHO THREW THIS PORK COW?!?" |
2015 Downloadable Content Pack[edit]
To prepare for the upcoming 2016 release of Penguin Kart 4, a DLC released in March of 2015 available to buy for $6.99. It includes:
- Four new race tracks.
- Plaza
- PuffleVille Loop
- Skate Park
- Haunted Puffle Hotel
- Five new hidden playable characters.
- Zeno124
- Wikipenguino45
- Snow
- SnoX
- Penguinpuffdude
- Two new gamemodes.
- X Battle
- Boss Rush
The race tracks and game modes are instantly unlocked, but the characters are all hidden; before the release, this caused controversy, but after the DLC released, fans of the game found out that the ways to unlock them were relatively easy.
Trivia[edit]
- Though not a direct parody, it is a reference to the popular Nintendo game Mario Kart.
- Snow's original power item was a Microphone. He'd play it in a rough voice, causing anyone in range to go spinning, and looked identical to the one Snow used in the Puffle Band.