To play the game (which is free) you need to purchase the AppMATes cars (the MAT stands for Mobile Application Toys apparently)which are around GBP 10 each. (Although, I suspect the game is designed to be loose enough to encompass this sort of open ended driving world play.) I could tell even after watching them for a few minutes they were lost in an imaginative world where their sound effects and extension of the actual game was as real and engaging as anything the designers may have intended. While this may say something about the milituristic culture they are growing up in, I think it says much more about their instinct to mimick grownups and make connections between the things around them and the explosion of imagination and ideas inside their heads.ĪppMATes hook into this instinct perfectly by enabling them to control the Cars 2 iPad game by simply whizzing the car along the surface of the device. If one of my boys finds a stick while out on a walk it is instantly either a bow and arrow or (more likely) a gun - never a snooker cue, fishing rod, broom or even a walking stick. Those that do seem to access a universal language of play. Some objects naturally lend themselves to being turned into toys. There is much more to this Car controlled app than meets the eye, and it's all tailored for younger players. Cars 2 on iPad comes with its own controller, a toy car.

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