Instead of embracing this wackiness though, the game tries to be a straightforward racer, eventually becoming a total bore. If used more, these ideas could have set Hot Wheels Unleashed apart in a huge way. Gravity and tricks hardly ever come into play, save for a few standout tracks. If you try to skip over a track by driving with a certain bit of imagination, you’re sent back to the last checkpoint. It’s a shame then, that Hot Wheels Unleashed never uses either of these concepts to their fullest. Except, the game lets you drive outside of those cones, so I would pull a tight drift and bypass the usual turn completely in favor of my much faster shortcut. Another segment from a different race had me drive off the track for a single turn, with guidance on where to go coming from a handful of traffic cones. Some races are wonderfully unique and open, with one sticking in my head that forced me to perform a 180-degree corkscrew to land my car after driving on an upside-down magnetic track.
It’s simply a fun game to look at, and its racing mechanics are similarly impressive, although that feeling wears off quickly.īefore being fun or inventive, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a beautiful game to look at.Īll that being said, there’s an unspoken genius in Hot Wheels Unleashed‘s track design. Regardless, I was sucked into the atmosphere of Hot Wheels Unleashed for the first two hours that I played it. If you’re playing the game on a last-gen console, the visual shock-and-awe may not be as punchy. Of course, those are the visuals that can be expected on a PS5 or PC. The game’s vinyl tracks look spectacular, and the sunlight shining off of them and the cars is eye-popping. You can even look under the cars and find Mattel’s name (copyrighted, of course) and “Made In Malaysia” printed on the plastic.
Everything, from the cars themselves to the tracks players race across, is stunningly detailed. Players immediately get three cars that they can use in races, and that first glimpse at their stunningly rendered plastic and aluminum are all that’s needed to get someone hooked.īefore being fun or inventive, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a beautiful game to look at. On its initial boot-up, Hot Wheels Unleashed hands you three “blind boxes,” a tastelessly named loot box. The experience starts strong, going from zero to sixty out the gate. Behind its extremely impressive visuals, Hot Wheels Unleashed is about as barebones as it gets, offering up an extremely simplified kart racing experience that had so much potential to be more, and a bevy of ultimately boring content. That’s because Hot Wheels Unleashed, while a fun kart racer when you first start playing, quickly shows its shallowness.
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