![]() ![]() That's all well and good but how about the actual racing itself? Well, it's fine, really. Every few hours the cars in the shop are changed, meaning if you’re patient enough you can finally get the last ones you need. But there’s at least some support in the Limited Offer section, which picks five cars at random and lays them out for you, letting you buy specific one (think of it like the Trophy Shop in Smash Bros For Wii U / 3DS). If you’re starting to think “hang on, this is going to make it hard to complete the whole set” then… well, yes, frankly. In situations like this, you can either sell them or ‘dismantle’ them into gears to upgrade your original one. ![]() It’s possible to buy a Blind Box and get a duplicate of a car you already have in your collection. This isn’t the sort of game that just gives you a new car every time, however. The most common is by spending coins on ‘Blind Boxes’, which are your aforementioned loot-boxes and will give you one of the game’s 68 cars at random (with the common ones obviously appearing more frequently). Given that half the fun of real life Hot Wheels is collecting them, it should be no surprise that it’s also the most enjoyable part of the game, even if it gets a bit loot-boxy. Coins can be spent on new cars, while the gears can be used to upgrade vehicles you already have in your collection. The aim of completing all these races is to earn coins and gears. That said, the Time Trials don’t have difficulty settings, and some of the tighter limits can be tricky for newcomers. It’s possible to set it to Easy - in case a kid’s playing it, for example, or you just fancy a more relaxing ride - and the rewards are the same regardless. It’s fun enough, and will take you anything from 6-10 hours to complete, depending on your skill level. You don’t even have the typical ‘eliminator’ style race that most games add to mix things up a bit.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Other than a handful of ‘boss battles’, which are just longer races set around a large toy, there really isn’t much variety to these races. These events are the standard fare you would expect from a racing game: Quick Races (where you have to finish first) and Time Attacks (where you have to beat a certain time to earn one one star, or a second shorter time for two). Naturally, the plan is to make your way through all the races by clearing them all, earning stars and collecting rewards along the way. The game’s main single-player mode is City Rumble, a series of races laid out over a large world map with multiple routes. That said, there’s just something about it (at launch, at least) that leaves us wanting a little bit more. Hot Wheels Unleashed is the latest attempt to digitise the toy series and it's probably the best Hot Wheels game to date. After all, when the whole brand revolves around collecting a wide variety of tiny cars then creating over-the-top tracks for them to race on, it’s fair to say that any game that manages to capture that essence of pure fun is well on its way to becoming a success. There are few licences out there that are better suited to a video game than Hot Wheels. ![]()
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