Why are you ever going to use anything else? Yes, the Hot Dog car is great, but it’s hardly a Batmobile, is it? That moment of Batmobile earning was pretty great, though. There are just enough vehicles in the game to keep you collecting for some time, although I did admittedly find my interest drop a bit once I’d unlocked the Batmobile. Hot Wheels Unleashed Review – Car CollectorĬollecting these cars is great fun and done through using in-game coins on blind boxes, or through completing specific challenges in the single-player mode. Every car is an actual Hot Wheels car, however, which really amps up the excitement when you unlock one you may have had in real life. The most interesting of all of these are the ones based on licensed properties like the Batmobile or the DeLorean from Back to the Future. You’ve got silly ones like food and dinosaur-based cars, but you’ve also got real-world vehicles like the Fiat 500. Thankfully for a game all about toy cars, Hot Wheels Unleashed has a pretty great roster of over 60 vehicles. Maybe I’m getting old, but it’s better to stick your own Spotify playlist on over it. It’s a shame that the soundtrack can’t keep up with the great visuals though, as it’s mostly just a bunch of techno noise mixed in with the unending acceleration noises. The tracks are then built in wildly different configurations around these areas-much like the tracks you may have dreamed of creating yourself when you were a kid-and actually use the environments in creative ways, such as weaving through vents or having you drive off the track and onto the elements of each area. Rather than having tons of unique worlds and levels, you’ll be racing with five distinct areas as a backdrop, ranging from a basement to a college campus, and even to a skyscraper construction site hanging over a city. Unleashed also has some pretty great-looking locations for you to race in. They’re embraced as the toys that they are, complete with see-through plastic bits, different types of die-cast metals, and even what looks like little fingerprint smudges. As a Hot Wheels game, one of the key things it needs to get right is the cars, and thankfully they look great here. The first time you’ll see that flair is in the cars themselves.
Hot Wheels Unleashed is exactly what you’d think it is from hearing the title-an arcade racer based on the die-cast collectible cars, similar to the PS2’s Hot Wheels: Beat That, although with a modern flair and budget. It can be a little bloated and repetitive in long play sessions, and has a blind box issue that slows things down occasionally but it’s perfect for short bursts of arcade fun.
As it turns out, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a great little racer and one of 2021’s hidden gems thanks to its fast-paced racing and addictive, nostalgia-inducing car-collecting loop.
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As someone who loved Micro Machines and Hot Wheels growing up and put many hours into the PS2 entries all those years ago, I was pretty excited to see what a modern version of that concept could do.
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