Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway is an racing video game published by GameMill Entertainment. It was released for , , , and /Xbox Series X/S on October 14, 2022. It is the second sequel to the 2018 game Nickelodeon Kart Racers and includes a roster of over 40 fully-voiced playable characters, plus 90 companion characters.
==Gameplay==
Rebuilt and re-imagined from the ground up, Nickelodeon Kart Racers returns - bigger and better than ever! Featuring a fully voice acted cast of over 40 iconic characters, drift, slide and boost your way to the finish line on tracks inspired by legendary Nickelodeon shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Avatar: The Last Airbender and more!
==Playable characters==
The game includes a cast of over 40 characters. Bold text indicates characters making their first playable appearance in a racing game.
Show 	Character 	Voice actor
Rugrats 	Reptar 	Fred Tatasciore
Rugrats 	Purple Reptar 	Fred Tatasciore
Rugrats 	Chuckie Finster 	Jessica DiCicco
Rugrats 	Susie Carmichael 	Cree Summer
The Ren & Stimpy Show 	Ren Höek 	Billy West
The Ren & Stimpy Show 	Stimpy J. Cat 	Billy West
The Ren & Stimpy Show 	Powdered Toast Man 	David Kaye
Rocko's Modern Life 	Rocko Rama 	Carlos Alazraqui
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters 	Oblina 	Alex Cazares
Hey Arnold! 	Arnold Shortman 	Zane VanWicklyn
Hey Arnold! 	Helga Pataki 	Francesca Marie Smith
Hey Arnold! 	Gerald Johanssen 	Ramone Hamilton
CatDog 	CatDog 	Jim Cummings and Tom Kenny
SpongeBob SquarePants 	SpongeBob SquarePants 	Tom Kenny
SpongeBob SquarePants 	Patrick Star 	Bill Fagerbakke
SpongeBob SquarePants 	Sandy Cheeks 	Carolyn Lawrence
SpongeBob SquarePants 	Squidward Tentacles 	Rodger Bumpass
Invader Zim 	Zim 	Richard Steven Horvitz
Invader Zim 	GIR 	Rosearik Rikki Simons
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	Jimmy Neutron 	Debi Derryberry
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	Cindy Vortex 	Carolyn Lawrence
My Life as a Teenage Robot 	Jenny Wakeman 	Janice Kawaye
Danny Phantom 	Danny Phantom 	David Kaufman
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Aang 	Davis Pak
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Toph Beifong 	Vivian Vencer
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Zuko 	Vincent Tong
The Legend of Korra 	Korra 	Janet Varney
The Loud House 	Lincoln Loud 	Bentley Griffin
The Loud House 	Lucy Loud 	Jessica DiCicco
The Loud House 	Clyde McBride 	Jaeden White
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Leonardo 	Cam Clarke
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Donatello 	Barry Gordon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Michelangelo 	Townsend Coleman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Raphael 	Rob Paulsen
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Eastman and Laird Raphael	Rob Paulsen
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	April O'Neil 	Abby Trott
Garfield 	Garfield 	Frank Welker
Garfield 	Odie 	Gregg Berger
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years 	Kamper SpongeBob 	Tom Kenny
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years 	Kamper Patrick 	Bill Fagerbakke
The Patrick Star Show 	Squidina Star 	Jill Talley
The JoJo & BowBow Show Show 	JoJo Siwa 	N/A
==="Pit crew" characters===
The game includes 90 crew members the player can choose to match their playstyle with unique special abilities.
;Chief Members
;Crew Members
==Tracks==
Included in this installment is a combination of new and returning tracks from previous games. Tracks marked in bold notate a new addition. Returning tracks have also been heavily reworked to include new mechanics, including boat sections and purple slime slides. Stages from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series in particular received massive visual changes, in order to reflect the 1987 animated series, as opposed to the 2012 series depicted in previous titles.
Show 	Track
SpongeBob SquarePants 	The Lost City of Atlantis
SpongeBob SquarePants 	Mrs. Puff's Boating School
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years 	Kamp Koral
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years 	Jelly Mellows
The Patrick Star Show 	The Road Show
Rugrats 	Reptar Ruins
Rugrats 	Toy Palace
Rugrats 	Sahara
Invader Zim 	Foodcourtia
Invader Zim 	Irken Armada
Hey Arnold! 	San Lorenzo Cruise
Hey Arnold! 	PS.118
Hey Arnold! 	Hillwood Aquarium
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	Retroland
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	Jimmy's Lab
Rocko's Modern Life 	Nature-O-Rama
CatDog 	House of CatDog
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Ba Sing Se
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Fire Nation
Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Northern Water Tribe
The Legend of Korra 	The Spirit World
Danny Phantom 	The Ghost Zone
The Ren & Stimpy Show 	Space Madness
The Ren & Stimpy Show 	Black Hole
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Technodrome
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	NYC Rooftops
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Turtle Lair
The Loud House 	Royal Woods Rally
The Loud House 	Most Haunted Tour
The Loud House 	Hole In One-derland
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters 	Student Housing
My Life as a Teenage Robot 	The Goop Zone
The JoJo & BowBow Show Show 	D.R.E.A.M Land
Garfield 	Hawaii
Garfield 	Arbuckle Farm
Miscellaneous 	Double Dare
Miscellaneous 	Kids' Choice Awards (Battle Mode Only)
==Trivia== 
*The game's existence was first confirmed by BestBuy.com and Target.com.Best Buy listingTarget listing
** An early version of the box art was found on a now deleted Instagram post on July 17, 2022.
* The ability to have the karts transform into planes or watercrafts, which was present in the first game but dropped from the sequel, has been confirmed to return in this game.
*Unlike the previous two games, the player can choose to have their characters use other characters' vehicles.
*This is the first game in the series to include voice acting.
* Unlike the previous two games, and like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, this was the first game in the series to feature the 1987 cartoon versions of the TMNT characters.
*The item box's design is again changed from the previous games. The first game featured treasure chests, and the second featured colored orbs; this time, the item boxes resemble the Kids' Choice Awards trophies.
*This is the third racing game Garfield and Odie appears in; the first two were the Garfield Kart series, which were made released before Nickelodeon acquired the franchise.
*This marks the first time My Life as a Teenage Robot characters appear in a racing game. 
**If SpongeBob SquarePants and the Nicktoons Gravjet Racing were not cancelled, this would have made it the second time.
*This is the first racing game to feature Jimmy Neutron as a playable character since Nicktoons Nitro, and Cindy Vortex's first appearance in anything since SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom.
*This is the first game to use the 2021 versions of the Rugrats.
**This also marks the first console game to include characters from Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show.
*Tommy Pickles, Angelica Pickles, Shredder, and Heffer are the only characters from Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 to not return to this game as racers. 
**Shredder, Heffer and Angelica are the only racers in the series to be demoted to pit crew characters.
*According to the game files, Orson and Sheldon from U.S. Acres and Baby Pearl from Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years were originally set to be pit crew members.
*JoJo Siwa is the only racer who is a mute in the game not having any lines at all.
*This game marks Janet Varney's final time voicing Korra.
==Videos==
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3- Slime Speedway - Official Announce Trailer
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3- Slime Speedway - Official Launch Trailer
==References==
==External links==
*Official Website
*Official Twitter account
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