At the start of the game, players will be offered three rudimentary cars to get to grips with. That’s how many different vehicles Hot Wheels Unleashed has on offer, all available through progression. Perhaps not even five, but will remember vaguely what they look like. Unless you’re asking an avid collector, chances are most people couldn’t recall ten named Hot Wheels cars. They may be miniature, but they haven’t cut down on the details. With every iteration of Gran Turismo or Forza, gamers are in disbelief at the level of detail developers put into their mighty machines. The other element of happiness comes from admiring the cars themselves. Clipping a Rip Rod or a Motorsaurus out of the podium finish for the best time is a joy until itself. Pelting under office chairs, zipping over pool tables and avoiding a fifty floor drop is the name of the game here.
Hot Wheels is exemplifying how fast flame stickers make your car go, and I am all for that. The case could be argued that seeing plastic wheels and glittery chassis would look cool being destroyed, but it doesn’t need weaponry. No fancy weapons – just boosts, speed traps and drifting. Nothing has changed, except there’ll be more words in this review.Īt its core, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a pure kart racer. Long story short, I gushed about the game on my stream and then put it into words. Out Of The BoxĪvid readers of the site will remember my preview coverage a while back. Heck, it’s even got a story mode to it too!Ī kart racer that pays loving tribute to the coolest miniature cars of all time, is this a perfect trip down memory lane or is it just nostalgia-tinted glasses clouding my opinion? Start those die-cast engines and we’ll find out. But you’re not confined to plastic tracks, you can also race through vents, skateparks and skyscrapers, all complete with danger and excitement. You can make the sickest of tracks, as far as imagination (and track space) will allow. Now, thanks to Hot Wheels Unleashed, players can do all of that. The imagination knows no bounds when you have a bitchin’ Hot Wheels car. Or, if you were poor like me, you used to drive them up walls and create your own awesome, imaginary courses. Clipping together those banking corners, loop-the-loops and speed boosters (that ate batteries) to make some of the sweetest tracks. If your parents had the money, you had the tracks. Comparing them, getting limited editions, and there was always that one friend who left his cars in the garden to get all messed up and still wanted to trade. Seeing which ones your mates had, comparing the sick paintwork, trying to faff about with those fiddly water transfers to put a skull on your Bone Shaker. Before Pokemon cards, these were the sought after collectables. The Finger Guns review:Īs a kid, Hot Wheels cars were the holy grail.
But this is Hot Wheels we're talking about, and you're going to want to see it for yourself. A kart racer with realistic car graphics? Normally, that wouldn't make sense.
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