He's fast, he's funny, he's Lightning McQueen - the star of Disney/Pixar's Cars movie and video game! And, not only is he a cool racin' machine that you can control in the video game for Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox, you can also take him for a spin, for free, on PC or Mac. All you need to do is grab the game demo and here's how you do it.
Burning Rubber on PC or Mac With Lightning McQueen
If you grab the full version of the Cars video game you get a ton of racing action and you can race as a bunch of different cars from the movie. But, if you want to check it out without dropping $$$ on it, you can hit the race tracks as Lightning McQueen for a spin around one track with the demo.
Downloading Disney/Pixar's Cars Racing Game Demo
Va-va-vroom! To get Lightning McQueen all revved up and ready for some high-speed racing, all you have to do is follow these step-by-step instructions. They'll help you download the game demo for Mac or PC.
- Click Here to race on over to Disney/Pixar's official Cars video game page.
- Chill while the page loads, then hit the "Download the Demo" link on the right side of the page.
- You'll hop over to the Download page with two links for you to check out. If you're on a Mac, hit the "Click here to download Cars Demo.dmg (137MB)" link. If you're on a PC hit the "Click here to download setup.exe (136MB)" link.
- As soon as you click the link, you'll get a popup, choose to save the file to your Desktop so it'll be easy to find later.
- This is the slowest part of the whole demo - the download! The files are 136 MB so it will take a few minutes. Check out the latest movie, game and sports info at Kidzworld while you wait!
- After the game demo has downloaded, double-click it to start installing it.
- Once the Cars game demo has installed, double-click it and buckle-up for racing mayhem!
Disney/Pixar's Cars Game Demo Computer Requirements
To get the high-speed racing machines up to top speed in the Cars video game you need some power under the hood of your computer. How much power? Here's the 411 on what you need for PC and for Mac.
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
Processor: 1.2 GHz required, 2.4 GHz recommended.
RAM: 256 MB RAM required, 512 MB recommended.
Hard Drive: 1.4 GB free space.
Video Card: 32 MB required, 64 MB recommended.
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card.
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c or higher.
Disney/Pixar's Cars Mac System Requirements
Operating System: Mac OSX 10.3 required, Mac OSX 10.4 recommended.
Processor: 1.2 GHz required, 2 GHz recommended.
RAM: 256 MB RAM required, 512 MB recommended.
Hard Drive: 1.4 GB free space.
Video Card: 32 MB required, 64 MB recommended.
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