CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars Reviews

by Dawson1044

This game is painfully obvious that all it is, is a money grab. First, its extremely difficult to get a part that is the level your on (you never get a 3 star military grade part if you’re at that part, its almost always lower). Second, when you open CATS it hits you with approximately 50 pop-ups begging you to spend money, you have to sit and wait until the game is done asking for your money before you can actually play the game. Third, and possibly the most obvious money grab, is that you can literally buy parts with money in the store that are not available to you, or anyone else yet, at this stage of the game. I am able to go and buy a gold body and weapon all while being in the military area, this is absolutely ridiculous and just shows how hard this company is begging for you to not play the game, and just spend money. Fourthly, possibly my biggest complaint, is that if you are dumb enough to waste money on this game, you have absolutely no upside to it. Once you reach the end, all of your parts reset, and you lose even the ones you paid for. This company does not care about creating a good, fun game, all they want to do is find ways to take your money, and then force you to spend more by taking away the things that you bought with money. To me this is absolutely ridiculous and I wish I could rate it lower but unfortunately 1 star is as low as it gets

by Rev. Muters

The game itself is pretty simple - but fun and requires more thoughtfulness and strategic thinking than you might think. Sadly they have setup a micro-transaction system that is unclear at best and borderline deceptive at its worse.

I don’t usually spend money on phone games but enjoying this one like I did I thought I was rewarding good development- But in the end it is clear they have setup a wonderful cash grab game. I’ve been a gamer since PONG and I’ve done game development with people so I know it is possible to setup purchases separate from WON or other in-game items. Thier unclear instructions and crocodile-tear false apologies hide them fact that the “correct functioning” of the game is to get people to spend money when they know in the end those items will be lost because of the way they have setup the system (Prestige my backside) that is not clearly described as something that will wipe out your purchases as well as won garage items. I applaud the developers at figuring out a way to legally pick peoples pockets. It’s sad really the game is fun and I thought I was rewarding good development by for the first time ever spending money on a phone game. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I should have known better by now.

by Goodbye4EverEA

I used to love this game. I played it several years ago then stopped for a while. I saw it in an ad for another game and decided to start playing again. As of old, I loved the game!!! Would play an hour or two a day to pass some time. Then they recently had some sort of “money grab” event, basically selling equipment for real money. And in those equipment packs, seems like about 25% of players got some sort of purple, gooey laser that freezes you for 5-6 seconds (most matches only last about 5 seconds), so EVERY time you play someone who bought a purple laser freeze ray thing, no matter what kind of machine you have, you get frozen for 5-6 seconds and by the time you unfreeze, you’re either dead or 1/2 second away from being dead. I thought as time went on and people progressed through the levels that these lasers would get “outdated” but since it’s an “accessory” instead of a “weapon”....people NEVER stop using them. I’m DONE playing until those are gone!! Even if I had one, I wouldn’t want to use it because it’s sooooo boring to win EVERY time just because you spent $5 to buy an INSANELY unfair piece of equipment.

So, if you’re reading this, PLEASE get rid of the purple freeze lasers....until then, I’m done...as are A LOT of other people!!

by Gummy Bear Fan02

this app has problems on every level. I want to first say I liked the original idea, it was fun but the way the game is built around it’s base ideas ruins it.
To start the actual gameplay is completely random, you have no control of your vehicle thus no way to affect the outcome of any battle. You have no control on what parts you receive, on top of that you have to wait a minimum of 3 hours to open even the most basic boxes. Assembling a vehicle is limiting not only in this way, but they also have power limitations so you can’t use any of the cool weapons and equipment you dump thousands into. While progressing you’ll unlock new tiers of gear and entirely new materials. I just wish the loot boxes gave me the gear level I need. Out of all the junk items you might just get lucky enough to find 1 slight upgrade. If it’s power requirement isn’t too high keeping you from using it. Finally the ads, I spent just about the same amount of time watching ads as actually fighting. After every. single. battle you get an ad, after leaving the upgrade screen even if I didn’t do anything, I get an ad. The only exception was the championship, I didn’t get em between fights but always at the end.

All of this is obviously here for a reason, they gotta make money somehow. It’s not “pay to win” but “pay to progress at a reasonable rate.” You should've just charged a few bucks upfront leaving out the artificial progression. This could’ve been up there with BTD.

by Calm Cash

I’ve been playing for awhile now almost a whole year, when I first started playing it was fun because everyone was on the same level and all the same parts were available to all players immediately. But with all the new add ons that have been put in along with the stipulations of obtaining them the game became nearly impossible. Higher prestige’s players were granted immediate access to the most OP parts in the game. Now it’s almost impossible to go up a rank, the normal and big boxes don’t offer much help, and your only chance at getting good parts is by paying. This game rewards anyone who drops a ton of money into it, or any higher prestige players. The only way this game could fix itself is if it puts you in battles with equal opponents only, it’s impossible to beat higher level players when they have access to things like the balloons, the freeze pack, the boomerang, or hover tires to name a few. Essentially the game has become broken by the games inability to create fair matchmaking and instead making you face players whose machines far out rank yours based purely off the fact they’re a higher level prestige or they poured a ton of money into the game.

by Nathanial123060

Love this game, recently picked it back up and I see no flaws with the gameplay mechanics, but the one big problem is accidental gem usage. It’s just too easy to press the button by accident, since most screens have a way to waste gems by accident. I’ve used 10 gems countless times to unlock wooden boxes, have saved many league points I was ok with letting go, and and I’ve even bought a box before. This is significant when I want parts back from a bet, as they are always either the parts I am using or parts good enough to potentially replace the parts I am using (depending on what bonus I was trying to roll). Recently I lost one I couldn’t afford to pay, so I closed CATS and was able to say that I had never watched the battle, and so didn’t lose my parts, but now that means the bigger betting system is completely closed off from me. After coming close to the 27 required gems, I blew all my remaining gems saving only about 100 league points.

It seems extremely silly that something like this should bring my opinion down so much but I honestly feel that this makes it unplayable for me. Please just add a confirmation button and make the “Yes” “No” answers appear in a corner and not the middle or something. I’m sure I am not the only one having this issue

by Guruspeaker

I started playing this game about a month ago and it was really fun (worthy of a 5-star rating). The action was quick, you were evenly matched with others in your skill group and everyone had access to the same weapons so it became a true game of skill (knowing what to build, sell, upgrade, etc, to have the best rig for the fight). Once you get to the top, you're offered the opportunity to restart the game for prestige giving you access to more powerful weapons and add-ons. The problem is, once you prestige up one level, you're now matched with others who have prestiged up many levels and are fighting opponents who have weapons that are several time more powerful than yours and you don't even have access to the (i.e.: the ballon shooter which just flips you over immediately rendering even the most powerful rig useless). Because of this, you can't level up and you're pretty much stuck in the same boring game loosing every time.

It would be a better game if they limited matching to a 1-2 level bracket instead of allowing level 20 prestige bully level 1's.

Giving this game one more update to fix this issue and if they do, I'll update my review. If they don't, I'll uninstall.

by Mattrdunn97

I’ve been playing this game for almost a year now and I used to love it with my whole heart. Everything changed with ultimate machines. Suddenly it got much more difficult to prestige, the amount of legendary parts greatly decreased, and the usefulness of the legendaries you did get was basically zero. Kings of the city feels like a useless add-on because you put all here of your bots in, and then the score seems to have no connection to the occupation of a zone. There’s very little time that can be spent on this feature and it takes too long for a new round. The rewards are also very small. With the update you effectively nearly cut the number of ultimate parts we get in half, and this already takes long enough to upgrade your machine.
A sizable number of bugs were introduced with the last update. Random crashes will occur during ultimate fights. If connection is lost during an ultimate fight, it automatically assumes you lost which is a major issue in my mind. And often times, doing a quick fight or championship fight after editing your bot will use a secondary bot to fight instead of the primary set bot.
I’m a long time player and love the game but these are some things that have been bothering me for some time.

by Grumasaurusrex

It’s fun to play. I could imagine it getting a bit receptive but for people like me that only play a game for a month or 2 it’s fine. The main version is a lot of fun but it can get a little hard to earn money and you eat up a lot of money trying to upgrade. You either have to play an insane amount of battles which gets boring or having to wait in packages to be given to you and sell 1.5 parts for every part you use to upgrade. The second or lower version of the game just isn’t very fun in my opinion. It’s like a half assed version of the main game, you can’t merge parts or sell parts so it gets repetitive easier that the original version because you’re not really upgrading you’re just making due with the same stuff at the same strength and hoping you win. I really haven’t played the lower version much since I simple don’t enjoy it. The only real improvements I could see is make battles worth a lot more money and it would be cool if as you upgraded weapons the thumbnail of the Weapon changed and got cooler in some way. I get it, these games are here to make money and that’s why they don’t give you a lot of money and stuff but at least make it worth it to play without absolutely having to spend money I mean for enough gold to merge a single weapon I haven to play 15 battles and merging one weapon makes almost no difference. Find a better balance. Good game over all tho

by VestaAsh

I absolutely love this game, but I’ve noticed a recent unfair advantage in City Kings. I was left my clan by the former leader, and we used to rock it in City Kings. But over the last few months I’ve noticed that we’re stuck going up against teams that are ridiculously WAY out of our league, and impossible to beat. I read up on how teams are matched, and it’s not accurate at all anymore. Most of my team are lower levels/new, and we typically only have maybe 5 players fighting at any given time. Especially lately, with the virus and protests going on, everyone’s too busy to play. Which I understand completely, but we’re stuck going up against teams that are just insanely equipped, all players are active and Prestige 1+, with weapons and carts that you can’t even attempt to attack once without immediately getting destroyed. I noticed it roughly 2 months ago, so I’m not sure if it’s a glitch or not. But we don’t even stand a chance on getting a win or any upgrades anymore.
Also, I’ve previously asked (via in game help chat) when you guys plan on releasing a black cat skin, and was told to check back. Soo, I’m checking back, lol.

by Game Savior

There’s a lot of issues in this game and a lot good in it as well. First I feel like you should only be able to fight people who have the same guns as you even if it’s not equipped. That way if you have the ballon unlocked then you fight people who also have balloons unlocked. If you don’t have the shotgun unlock the. You can only fight people with shotguns. Fixes overpowered weapons because now if you don’t have then that means the other also don’t have it. 2nd problem is everything is like 4x the cost it should be like buying gems and offers. One other thing I would like to touch on is if you don’t get promoted the time ran out you should a special price or box that gives good loot. Like 25% to this and that so that way if you don’t get promoted you can have a higher chance the next with all the good loot you got. You get gems and coins but that doesn’t do much . There’s 3 categories for the championship. The first one gets you only coins. The second gets you coins and 5 gems. But the third gets you promoted a skill point gems coins ect. The first or last stage gets you good loot but with no epic or specials traits. The second has that that and of course the third has the same rewards nothing changes.

by Sir Celery

I’ll keep this review really short and sweet. I love this game! It’s really fun and pretty addicting. But there is one major problem with the supply box system. If all four of ones supply box slots are full, and you just won a quick match to get a super box, guess what? YOU MISS THE FREAKING SUPER BOX!!! What’s up with that. I’m not sure if there are better crates then super boxes but I’m sure you’d miss those too! Why do you have to miss it? I spent probably half an hour just watching ads and doing quick fights so I can get to my superbox, and guess what happens? I have my supply box slots full and I miss the superbox! What he heck, there’s absolutely no reason for that and if this game’s developers are looking for tweaks to make this is one!!! Other than its a great game. Also why don’t you have to confirm spending 100 gems on your league fight purple this app. I have wasted almost all my gems accidentally clicking that button. Please add a confirmation button. It’s so annoying that I have to constantly buy outfits I like for gems no matter what just to make sure I don’t waste them. Not only that but the recovery fee is huge for those purple this app! Please make it easier to not waste gems!!!!! Please it is really getting on my nerves.

by YouDooDoo

I like the game and I’ve been playing it for about a year now. I’m in Prestige 2. A couple things have been bothering me. 1. It’s too easy to accidentally use you gems. Like if I use a ticket in ultimate league and I lose I can either quit and lose it or use like 50 gems to save it. On those things that pop up the button is usually in the middle. With this there are two choices to quit or to save and the button that asks you to save is like slightly closer to the middle, so by habit I click in the middle and accidentally use 50 gems. 2. It’s like impossible to instantly promote or even get good at the game without paying to play. I wouldn’t even say this game is pay to win it’s more like pay to play. 3. It’s way to hard to get gems without paying. Plz make this easier for us who don’t spend money on the game

Now for the things I like about the game. 1. This is my all time favorite thing about C.A.T.S; All Stars. All stars is a great way to upgrade your ultimate parts and get new ones. I honestly like ultimate league better than just the championship. 2. All the offers for gems that show up in the shop. Thank you for reading this and plz fix these things in the game Zeptolab. Your doing good👍🏼

by BlazingBlaxBird

I loved this game, it was fun and unique BUT I can only call it good I can’t really say more. The game is fun on your first prestige, for me it went down hill after that. After your first prestige you are put in the pool with literally everyone above the first prestige. This means that you are getting pooled with all the people with all the gadgets that absolutely destroy people without the same gadgets. To elaborate, there is a gadget that shoots a balloon that lifts up your machine, you can’t do anything against it unless you can shoot the balloon. You don’t have the ability to acquire this gadget until you have a high prestige. Another one is the sleep dart, you go to sleep for 5 seconds, you cannot beat it, or at least it is incredibly difficult.
But if you pay and buy this stuff you can get these gadgets! That’s my main problem, it is quite pay to win. Every time you log on they jam you with all their ‘deals’ and it gets repetitive. It becomes incredibly difficult to rank up among all the ‘op’ gadgets you don’t have and it only gets harder as you go through until you can acquire these gadgets.
I’m going to give it 4 stars, and that’s because I did have fun playing the game, I would lower it to a 3 but I it is a fun and unique game.

by PlaytimeElla

This game is fun but it gets kinda repetitive. And also I don’t want the power option to exist! Because I just started 2 days ago and I’m already bored cause the power holds me back. The power forces you to have a limited tool number on your battle bot. Sense based on the bases for your battle bot has the more or less power your creation has. Sense I just started I always know I can only have weapon and all the other people in the championship (witch I’m at the stage for so the game says) and they have multiple weapons. If only there was a more cranked up power so you can add more tools to your battle bot or if the power option didn’t exist. I’m getting bored cause everyone has a lift-up thingy except me. Why can’t I have one and at least one more tool other then it? And also this game takes up a lot of needed storage. If you could just add more maxed levels to the power option or if you just deleted it all together that would be great. And also it would be less repetitive if you could have more tools on your battle bot that way it’s always a question on who wins or loses. The power option and repitive-ness is my only problem. But the power option does lead to the repetitive part. I hope this clears things up! -Ella

by TurtleSandwich9273647

Well first of all the game is perfectly fine! No bugs, nothing is laggy, no glitches, it’s amazing!
But from the title you see ads, yes that’s right add! So here is the thing, every game I win (1-2) I get a 30 second ad that I can’t skip and it is so frustrating because I can’t skip it. There was this one ad that had a skip and it was 15 seconds then I pressed skip and it said “you won’t get the reward if you skip the video” and I was wondering... ...what do I even get. I mean sometimes I get like 800 coins just for winning and I have like 50,000 coins which isn’t helpful. Yes I get it there has to be ads from those people (I don’t forgot the name) or sponsors. Well first of all we don’t even know what the reward is, we don’t want to watch a 30 second ad with no skips because we don’t care about those games, and lastly we only care about the game this app while we are watching those non skipping 30 second ads. So please for C.A.T.S sake and for those ad haters, mind adding a skip button in 5-7 seconds into the ad. Also another thing I notice is that all the other free games actually have a SKIP which puts this game into a bit more annoying game than the other ads. At least other games has a skip unlike this game is all I think about while watching an ad. Please ad a skip so me and everyone can actually enjoy the game. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

by Tbrady9876

Ok the game in general is good but the ‘watch to earn’ is TOTALLY broken so i was playing and I could get a gold star damage pack from watching a video so I watched the video and the after it automatically sent me to the AppStore and closed my app and I didn’t get my reward, I tried it a lot more and the same thing, and some ads when they end are just a black screen with no x button and I have to restart CATS , losing my progress. (And there are WAY to many ads) And I am going against level 50 prestige’s and I am only a level 2 prestige! And there are people who deal all of your HP with 2 rockets, in 3 star platinum I have about 140’000 HP currently, they deal 80’000 and have a balloon that always flips me over!

Edit: Ok so while some of the bugs have been fixed, a few haven’t. But also the purchases are sometimes bugged, and they won’t let me get a refund when they do bug out. While it is mostly my Apple devices fault it still won’t let me get my refund but it chargers me.

by Autarkis Jr.

I am so happy that this game even exists, much less how much time and effort you guys put into making new content on a regular basis. It has cured me from hours of boredom, especially during this difficult time. I have played the game for a long while now and can find only one thing that concerns me. Once a cat finds itself getting to prestige 4, and unlocks the lifter, there is not much to look forward to. It is a reason a lot of players end their machine-battling career. It is sad that anyone would stop playing! A solution I have thought of is to take the special parts, (like Boomerang, Death Lamp, Deep Freeze, and my favorite Molotov Cocktail) and turn them into regularly obtainable parts in later prestige levels. I will keep playing this spectacular game regardless, but I will be so much happier if there were more things to look forward to. I definitely recommend to anyone to try it out!

by Jk-Dubb

This game has been my favorite game since I first played a year ago. One of the reasons I really loved it was because you did not have to purchase anything- you had to be willing to put in time and play lots and lots of quick fights but you could play without HAVING to pay. But now, playing quick fights isn’t nearly enough to be competitive. I have a ton of parts but no money/coins with which to fuse parts to build my health and attack. And with the latest update, I haven’t received money in the prize boxes- how am I supposed to build up coins to fuse????
Additionally, it is so much harder to GET machines to stay competitive (seen in the last couple updates). I have noticed that it is impossible to get a vehicle with 2 attack attachment points AND 1 defense attachment point. I used to be able to get those by stage 8.
I have loved this game so much and it has gotten me through some long chemo treatments, but if I have to keep buying gems to substitute for coins to fuse, I’ll have to stop playing.
Please, please bring back the ability to work hard and get rewards for doing so!
Thanks for allowing me to vent a bit...

by Jftech01

First of all, this app riding in destructive cars loaded with weapons summarizes the most shocking feature of any scientific combat game I ever downloaded. When I first tried out this game, I thought it was honestly geared towards younger audiences regarding the cartoonish scenery, but dive just a few dozen minutes into this game and anyone can be positively encouraged to play it. this app converts BattleBot-type competition into some crazy “sling-and-spin” madness that’s entirely automatic and since steering is non-existent, the bots constantly smash each other to bits so a dull moment is never recognizable. There is a bit of a storyline to the game and the this app themselves are quite hysterical, especially when they’re mad (which is often all the time). Not to mention, this app is playable offline so if the ads are ringing your chimes, just simply deactivate your wifi :) Overall, this game is fluid, entertaining, fascinating, hands-free entertainment with a unique twist on robot fighting. Runs smoothly and is well worth your time, download it if you delight in demolition 💣😁