The first time I played Big Fun Racing, I failed the first track, and put the game down for awhile. Not the first impression a game should leave. After several days, however, I picked it back up and slowly started to get used to it. Spending enough time with this game to accurately post a review of it was not an easy task.
You play through more than fifty levels, finding coins, and racing the clock. Playing through the first several levels were very slow, and most of the time I was coming close to time expiring. After that the tracks changed almost completely. The next few were wide open and fun. I had plenty of time to set jumps up, and collect the coins. There were no mazes to run and no platforms to land on. Unfortunately, those tracks were bookended by the almost platform style tracks.
To play, you hold the device as if it is a steering wheel. In the bottom right and left corners are the buttons for forward and reverse, respectively. The only problem was the controls were inconsistent. I found myself either turning the wheel the slightest bit and over steering, or spinning my iPod almost completely upside down and it doing hardly anything. Unfortunately there is no way to tweak the controls through the menus. Also forward and reverse sometimes felt unresponsive. When your car makes a large jump and then has to land on a small platform, jamming on the reverse does almost nothing. I was constantly landing where I needed to, only to have my car drift off the edge because I couldn?t get it to stop.

Graphically this game doesn?t look horrible. It looks about as good as any game can when rendering blocks and walls. The ?tracks? are all pretty much just varying layouts of ramps, and mazes. I did have an issue at one point where I was reversing to set up a jump and ended up reversing through a wall and into the abyss, never to return.
Sound for this game has its ups and its downs.. The engine noise for the different cars sounds fine, but the music is a little grating after a while, and doesn?t really add much to the game itself. There is a small chime that sounds when you pick up one of the coins that you are tasked at finding. Oddly though, when you collect the coin it not only makes the sound in the headphones, but also through the external ?speaker?. This is a feature that I could find no way of turning off, and it started to get on my nerves after a while.
All in all, Big Fun Racing is a bit of a misnomer, a better title would probably have been Medium Sized Fun Racing. With 50 included tracks, and more available through download, 6 unlockable cars, this game has potential to be what it claims. Unfortunately, with out an update to be able to tweak the controls, and the strange sound issue, it will probably end up being left in the dust.