Why are the movements SO inconsistent? Sometimes you tap and go almost nowhere, other times you slide over half of the area. It's impossible to move with any degree of confidence when half the time you're an air hockey puck and the other half underwater.
Four games in: Still haven't made shift the boost button, still lose gas when not pressing the accelerator, still have arbitrary screen slowdowns that give you nothing, still have the popup windows to buy upgrades instead of only having to click the icons, now with added wheel gumminess so you don't really roll downslope, and a breakable engine.
The game was best in its first version by far. The only improvement that's been made is level design. Everything else relating to game mechanics is categorically worse.
This game has the same major problem as part 1. You lose fuel while not pressing the accelerator. Completely eliminates a huge part of skill and control. Might as well just force the player to always move forward.