#Hot wheels unleashed early access time code

So you’ll find yourself launching into air ducts or looping around bookshelves in these brilliant tracks that have an impressive sense of scale to them. The game features five environments (basement, skatepark, college campus, garage, skyscraper) but because this is a Hot Wheels game, you’re racing on tracks laid out in these areas. In fact, the game wholly encourages this as some time trials absolutely cannot be finished without figuring out how best to skip parts of the track to cut time. The game even dips into some Trackmania territory with the aforementioned physics system allowing for air control that, when mastered, can allow you to skip massive chunks of the track. Milestone are known for their sim racers, and you can definitely feel a tease of that here with the game’s physics system, but it’s an arcade racer through and through with simple to tap drift mechanics and just the right amount of looseness to the cars. There’s so much good in this game, that these moments that take you out of it really make you wonder who thought some of these decisions were good.Īn arcade racer lives or dies by how well it captures that feeling fans of the genre expect from a game of this type and Hot Wheels Unleashed delivers on that front. Only issue here is that it’s five in-game hours which is a mind-boggling design choice. Hot Wheels Unleashed also features an in-game “store” that will stock five random cars for you to buy and will refresh after five hours. It’d make more sense to roll dupes the more cars you have, but I was pulling duplicates right at the start of the game when I had maybe three or so cars.

You can scrap those dupes for money, but the bitter feeling is still there. It’s incredibly disheartening to pop open a couple boxes you’ve been saving, only for half of them to be cars you already have. This normally wouldn’t be a big deal, but for some reason the game seems to overwhelmingly favor giving you duplicate cars over new ones. The only (minor) bummer is that you unlock these cars via loot crates which you can acquire in the game’s campaign mode, or by buying them with in-game currency. Everything from traditional cars, to the gimmick ones like Bone Crusher or a tank, it’s all here. It’s simply absurd how many cars got put into this and the variety of which there is. With well over 60 cars to collect, you’ll no doubt find at least a few from your childhood that you’ll want to take for a spin. Now I wouldn’t say it’s terrible, but it is missing a considerable amount of settings that you just come to expect and it would have been the cherry on top for this game to feature a fully fleshed-out photo mode. The only shame is how limited the photo mode is because I just want to sit around doing that all day. The track strips themselves look just like their real-world counterparts, particularly the way light shines through them or the stress lines from bends. On top of that, on certain cars, you can even notice faint fingerprints on them, or scuffs as you get physical during a race. The detail on the cars is simply insane, with every aspect of the original toy replicated perfectly to almost photo-realistic degrees.

When the trailers for this game first dropped I scoffed at the idea that the game actually looked that good and let me tell you, it does. It’s no understatement to say this game is a Hot Wheels fan’s dream come true.

#Hot wheels unleashed early access time code

MonsterVine was supplied with a PC code for review Well here we are, and Hot Wheels Unleashed is not only one of the best games of the year, but one of the best racing games of all time. If you had told me last year that a Hot Wheels licensed game would be one of my top games of the year I’d have told you to get your head checked.