Photo mode is easy to use and can produce some awesome action shots.īoosting will obviously get you ahead in races and you’ll need to balance boost as it runs out fast. I learnt from my mistakes, but these slight imperfections were enough to break immersion in the otherwise terrific fast-paced racing. There’s seemingly no way to get back onto the track, so I question why we just aren’t respawned back onto the track as soon as we fly off it. Often you’ll fly off the track during a jump or an elevated section and you can still drive around on the ground. Occasionally you’ll fall off the track and you can hold down Y to reset your vehicle, but it takes a while for the Y prompt to show up. At first I didn’t really notice it but after a while it became distracting and felt like an unnecessary feature. When you boost, the music actually speeds up and warps while you’re boosted. There were some gripes while driving, albeit minor ones. These can be dodged by boosting at the right time, and add some good variation to tracks that can sometimes feel a little too same-same after a while. Then there are loop-the-loops and even boss set pieces containing large creatures, like a giant spider, than can spit webs or acid pools to slow you down. There are different types of track pieces that will give you a boost when run over, and there are occasionally barriers that will slow you down. Race variations are standard quick races, time attacks or split screen and you’ll be racing over a mix of on-track and off-track scenery depending on the environment you’re in. The are six different environments you can race at release including the basement, skate park, garage, track room, skycraper and college campus.
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Once you’re in the race, that’s the focus and it performed really well on the Xbox Series X. There is a world map where you get to choose which race to do next, but that’s a structural thing completely separate to the racing. While I really enjoyed my time in that variation, it was good to be in dedicated races that have starts and finishes with no open world aspects to it at all. The last time I raced in this Hot Wheels setting with bright oranges and blues on plastic tracks was the Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels expansion. Racing in Hot Wheels Unleashed is a heck of a lot of fun. There are a heap of customisation options for you to test out and once you’re happy with a look you can share it online to other players. The vehicles are really well detailed and you can have a great time creating some wild liveries for your favourite vehicles. You can dismantle any vehicles you get that you don’t want, especially if you get double-ups which will give you back some gears and coins. Upgrades can affect speed, braking power, acceleration and handling, and each car has a differing method for boosting. Vehicles can be upgraded once you earn enough gears through winning races.