![]() ![]() 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. #HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED XBOX SERIES#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 I 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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