Thomas & Friends: Track Stars (PlayStation 2)

Track Stars is a video game developed and published for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. Players can pick between six engines to play with: Thomas, Edward, James, Percy, Toby and Emily. They can also colour in the engines and give the engineer a name. The colour of the engineer in the colouring in effects the colour of his sprite in-game. It has three different skill levels for three levels; Game, Race and Explore. The game is narrated by a female announcer. Please do not edit without permission from User:Paul Young.

Characters

 * Thomas
 * Edward
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Emily
 * Henry (non-playable)
 * Gordon (non-playable)
 * Sir Topham Hatt (voice-over)
 * Annie and Clarabel (do not speak)
 * Troublesome Trucks (not named; do not speak)

Starting the Game
The player must pick an engine from Thomas, Edward, James, Percy, Toby or Emily. The player can start straight away with Thomas, or colour-in any engine. In the colouring-in, they can choose what colour their engineer's clothes are by colouring them in on the picture.

You must also select a skill level of easy, medium or hard.

Game
To complete seven jobs over a week. Once complete, Sir Topham Hatt will make a comment on speed and memory, and a score will be tallied.

Race
Race to the finish line before the other engine reaches it, the player must keep up with his skills and speed (For example, get the green balloons and candy. But avoid the mud, red balloons and other engines).

Explore
The chance to explore the maps from 'Game' and 'Race' without a timer and points. Players can pick up trucks or coaches and take them anywhere.

Trivia

 * The gameplay is similar to the Sega Genesis game.
 * The picture for the Game mode is a scene of Thomas at Maron from the eighth season episode, Thomas Gets it Right, the picture for Race is a deleted scene of James passing by Emily while she is rolling her eyes from the movie, Calling All Engines, and the picture for Explore is a deleted scene of Percy passing the windmill, from the eighth season episode, Percy and the Magic Carpet.
 * A few instrumental tracks have been used:
 * in the title screen, Engine Rollcall is played.
 * During the example of the Game mode, part of A World Around You is played.
 * During the Game and Explore modes, Emily (song) is played.
 * During the example of the Race mode, part of Suprises is played.
 * During the Race mode, Ode to Gordon is played.
 * Emily is voiced by a female announcer. However, Thomas, Percy, Toby and Sir Topham Hatt are voiced by Robin Smith, and James, Gordon, Henry and Edward are voiced by Michael Brandon.

Goofs

 * Edward has James' whistle sound.
 * Toby has Oliver's whistle sound.
 * Emily has Henry's whistle sound.
 * In the front view shots of the engines, Edward uses Gordon's front view sprite, but with Henry's face.
 * Whenever Edward hits a red balloon, runs into mud on the rails, starts over a mission or quits the explore part, he uses Percy's sad face.
 * Whenever Edward bumps into an engine during the races, he sometimes uses Thomas' surprised face.
 * Toby's in-game sprite is missing his number.
 * All of the engines have silver buffers.