Some time trials, in particular, feel dull and don’t scale to your chosen difficulty or choice of car–there are 32 in all, each with two target times, and longer tracks (two minutes and above) can be a drag. In its desire to ease gamers into the action, Hot Wheels Unleashed underplays its hand with several vanilla tracks that don’t showcase what it’s capable of. Its races, time trials, “bosses”, and secrets, rewarding you with cars, gears (for upgrades), cash, and various ways to decorate your basement–your own private space that doubles as a host for the game’s track builder mode. The core career mode, Hot Wheels City Rumble, offers the bulk of the action, helping you unlock the game’s four-dozen or so tracks. Hot Wheels favorites and licensed classics are up for grabs.
It’s a little too frequent, even for an arcade racer, but you soon adapt. If you nail your turns, you’ll have nitro ready every four or five seconds, and on medium or hard difficulty, you need to use it as often as you can.
Perfectly straddling the line between real-life cars and plastic toys, you feel the weight of your car as you race and drift, only to have your world turned upside down–often, quite literally–by a nasty back-end wall slam, misjudged ramp transition, or a loop taken at low speed.īoosts, in particular, are at the very core of the experience: you bank them from nailing your timing in the start-line countdown and charge your meter up through drifting, as well as F-Zero-style strips on the track. While handling takes quite a long time to get used to, Hot Wheels Unleashed’s gravity is superb. You can really feel the difference in vehicle types, too, allowing for plenty of testing to find your preferred ride.
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Certain tracks feel as well-designed as Mario Kart 8’s Dragon Driftway: pure perfection for drivers that love going sideways. Once you get to grips with drifting, every perfectly taken corner makes you feel like a maestro.
Drifting takes some learning, but perfect corners are ridiculously satisfying.
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