Most of the best pieces need to be unlocked whilst playing the game, which I found a bit frustrating.Ĭustomisation features heavily in the game with a full livery editor to make your car collection stand out. You can pick a location from all the places in the game to build your circuit.
There is a track editor included in the game. Even in the air, you have some control over the car for a smooth landing. Similarly, miss-time a boost on the approach to a ramp, and you could find your car overshooting the track. There are plenty of freestyle sections where it’s easy to get caught on the scenery. Races take no prisoners, and one stuff-up can send you to the back of the pack. These races have boost changing direction that can slow down the cars if you don’t keep an eye on what’s going on. In the campaign, most of the circuit layouts are a bit on the pedestrian side, with only the boss races really stacking up as a challenge. The races mainly consist of three laps around a circuit, but with the odd point-to-point race thrown in for good measure.
I’d have liked the option of a cockpit view. The action is exclusively controlled in a third-person view. Most cars have a boost meter that is charged by drifting around the track. Each of the cars has different attributes, some that are upgradable. You can scrap cars for components or sell them for currency. Currency is also awarded during races with can be used to purchase blind boxes or special edition car blister packs. For the preview build, I had access to the complete set, but for the actual retail release, players need to earn the cars in their collection.Ĭars are unlocked as you progress as rewards for winning races and as blind boxes containing random cars. The cars are expertly modelled on their real-life counterparts. For the most part, the action is too fast to really be looking at the background scenery. Some of the circuits have cars leaving the track and travelling through air conditioning vents and across shiny floors.
The tracks are assembled in places like a skyscraper under construction, a skate park, and a basement. Having the circuits scaled appropriately in real-world settings gives the game a Micro Machines feel that takes me back to that classic game series. To help this, there are speed boosts, boost meter refills, and magnetised track sections. The circuits have the tiny cars banking flying off jumps, looping the loop, and even driving inverted. They even have blue plastic connectors holding them together. The game looks good, the orange track pieces looking identical, if a little wider, to the plastic Hot Wheels track.
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I was also pleased to find a healthy online community on the Xbox Series X for multiplayer racing. The game can be played two-player locally via split-screen, a mode the is often overlooked. The game also has a couple of quick modes if you just want to race on a particular circuit or test out a car in a time trial. There are multiple paths with event unlocking as you go. Races and events are performed across a map that mimics a kid's car mat. The meat of the game is the Hot Wheels City Rumble campaign. The cars have boosts, the tracks have loops, jumps, and hazards. To see these cars come to life and so accurately modelled in a game is rather delightful.ĭespite Milestone’s more realistic racing back catalogue, Hot Wheels Unleashed is unashamedly an arcade racer, as it should be. As a kid, I had a collection of little racing cars, most of which my five-year-old now plays with, hammering them into the skirting boards the same way I used to. Hot Wheels Unleashed is a dream game for the five-year-old me. But Milestone’s involvement means that this game is no cynical cash-in. I am, however, more used to tearing around one of their digital circuits on two wheels in MotoGP than firing up diminutive little cars and whizzing them around a plastic track. Mattel’s little cars get the big game treatment via racing game veterans, Milestone in Hot Wheels Unleashed.
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