Hot Wheels Unleashed is up there with Milestone’s MotoGP and Monster Energy Supercross, as well as the F1 and WRC games, as another winner in the ongoing renaissance of licensed motorsports gaming. Collecting virtual Hot Wheels is fun making (or repainting) them is a joy.Īll of this adds up to a very strong, broadly appealing racer. I was easily able to match the color pattern I use in F1 2021, for example, and pretend my racing team there had an officially licensed collectible in Hot Wheels Unleashed, thanks to the library of decals the editor includes. The livery options really showcase the realism in the different vehicle finishes and materials - from enamel, to flake and glitter paint jobs, polished faux-chrome and matte gray die-cast metal. While I didn’t spend much time in the track editor, the robust livery editor did get a lot of my attention it’s rather quietly the best asset in the whole game. Hot Wheels Unleashed also packs in a customization toolkit and a track editor, with some unlockable elements and decorations awarded in City Rumble, too. At Hard and Extreme difficulty, I had to get to the front of the pack at the start and make zero mistakes, to win or contend. And at lower levels, Hot Wheels Unleashed left enough room for me to counter with boosting and turbo charges of my own, building huge leads with the feeling I’d dusted an AI for good. As a rule of thumb, any Common car can win against any other AI Common in a straight fight. Maybe a win was out of reach, but top three always seemed reasonable.Īs for the AI, they’re legitimately tough competitors, themselves boosting throughout a modestly rubber-banded pursuit to the finish line. Even crashing out of the track, while on Medium difficulty, I was able to return and turbo boost back in the action. Even if I blew a sweeping right-hand turn across bare floor and completely missed the re-entry to the track, I never felt totally out of a race. A wobbly jump landing can send you tumbling, but it doesn’t feel unfair. Nothing feels locked to a surface, or to a region of the screen, as in other arcade racers. The movement in Hot Wheels Unleashed is true, rendered in Unreal Engine 4.
Such intuitive physics and outcomes within Hot Wheels Unleashed speak to Milestone’s bonafides as a racing developer. Like most arcade racers, speed is nothing without course knowledge.
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Boosts all recharge slowly as you drive, but drifts charge them faster.Įxecuting a drift is very simple learning how to sustain one for longer requires practice. The Bump Around, which is a bumper car, has a lengthy turbo that is difficult to drain, whereas the Sharkruiser, which is faster and more dangerous, has three single-use boosts. Your winning play is always to keep your car on the track, off the side railings, counter-steering into drifts for astounding distances (measured in inches, heh heh) and laying on the turbo boost at the apex of the turn.Įach vehicle has a different turbo boost, related to the design of the car. Contact is inevitable, but the speed and the changes in direction are so quick that tactical collisions aren’t typically a core part of gameplay. On the track, you win by being faster, not what you do to your car or someone else’s. For an arcade racer, it’s a refreshing focus on skill and vehicle physics, and Milestone can make this design choice because of its experience and reputation building core motorsports simulations over the past two decades. The races in all of these modes involve just two special abilities: drifting, and a turbo boost whose strength is balanced by the rest of the car’s attributes. In City Rumble, the races all have a mixture of grades, with celebrity cameos and collector’s items like the TMNT Party Van or the Back to the Future DeLorean. There’s also a campaign mode, called City Rumble, where players unlock new vehicles or win the Blind Boxes that randomly award a different ride.
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These cars are graded by rarity, and vehicles can be traded for virtual cash or parts, which can be used to upgrade them. Hot Wheels Unleashed has 60 cars for you to collect and race in the game’s staple offerings of online multiplayer, local split-screen multiplayer, or you-against-the-AI races. That’s critical, as the AI racers in Hot Wheels Unleashed pose an unexpectedly stout challenge in the upper two (of four) difficulty levels. It’s hard to describe I drive arcade or action racers with life-size vehicle models all the time, but I don’t feel as connected to their motion as I do in Hot Wheels Unleashed.
This is important, not just for the aesthetic that Milanese studio Milestone achieves, but also because it gives the cars very intuitive handling.
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