Hot Wheels Unleashed - Xbox One

Was a cool ass game. Easy to play

It’s more e than what you think it’s going to be!!! I love playing it. It’s hard at times but fun. Brings back a lot of memories of my childhood. I’m 60 years old and retired so I have a lot of time on my hands.

The media could not be loaded. WOW!! Xbox Series X – HOT Wheels Forza Horizon 5 Bundle is a fantastic bundle for everyone. My setup is provided with a Denon and Klipsch bundle along with Dolby Atmos/Vision that PS5 can't provide. Sorry, PS5, Xbox is the winner.

Hot Wheels Unleashed captures the high-octane fun of other track-based racers, like Trackmania, while making terrific use of the license. Milestone, has condensed all of the fun kids have with Hot Wheels down into a tight, blistering experience that transforms these small, weightless toys into the souped-up machines kids imagine them to be. Some effort has gone into ensuring there’s a noticeable difference between many of the cars, for example, the Camaro feels flighty and responsive while the school bus, while not sluggish by any means, feels more cumbersome. Cars, which are either unlocked or bought with coins, are sorted by rarity and can be upgraded using gears which has a two-pronged effect of souping up what the car has under the hood while increasing its rarity.Unleashed nails all of the fundamentals a track-racer should, it handles like a dream while including all of the staples like boosting, drifting, and adhering to the magnetic tracks to defy gravity itself. It’s fast and fun, and I honestly believe it captures the sense of excitement inherent to Hot Wheels. There’s a lot of variety in track pieces, but the animated segments, which are brought to life through wonderous imagination, are a highlight. Kaiju-scale spiders and scorpions ensnare and disrupt through web and acid pool traps that’ll infuriate with great frequency.While the spirit of Hot Wheels is well and truly on display with Unleashed, I feel the game is a little content bare on the whole. There are a few dozen tracks spread across six distinct, yet defunct, levels. There are time trials, lap races, and sprints, which helps provide a bit of variety within the game’s City Rumble mode thankfully. It’s also hard to identify at times just who Unleashed is for, offering up a frequent challenge while remaining joyous fun. I think it’s clear that the game’s longevity is going to rely heavily on the editor modes.There isn’t a tremendous amount of depth on offer in the game’s multiplayer suite. It’s bereft of modes and is propped up solely by the fact user-generated maps cycle through, gifting the game legs it wouldn’t have otherwise. The track editor is easily the coolest thing to play about in Hot Wheels Unleashed. It extends creative freedoms like few track builders can while remaining easy to use. You’ll stretch and distort lengths of plastic at will and, if nothing else, it’ll give you an appreciation of how well realised the developer’s tracks are.Hot Wheels Unleashed tinkers with scale in a lot of fun ways, so much so that it measures the player’s cumulative drift in centimetres. The small, noticeable imperfections on the screen, the particulate dust coursing through the air, and fingerprints all speak to beautiful, nostalgic attention to detail. But as thrilling as it was to zip beneath desks and across leather sofas, it felt inorganic as we went from a basement dweller set-up to a literal skyscraper under construction. There wasn’t a great deal of creative cohesion between the locations, and while it was fantastical, it felt jarring.Though undoubtedly pretty, Unleashed does suffer from a lot of pop-in any time a track loads in with every pre-event flyover fast becoming a showcase of one of the game’s few technical shortcomings. Once it’s all rendered, the textures are great and the game rarely hiccups, holding frames throughout every blistering turn.Hot Wheels Unleashed piles licenses on top of licenses when it came time to compile a roster of cars for the game, but sadly the soundtrack was somewhat of an afterthought. Rather than being a curated playlist of the year’s hottest pop tunes, it leans into original electronica and dubstep for the most part. It’s all in all forgettable, though serviceable to the game’s want for speed. One aspect of the sound design I truly loathed was the way the soundtrack inexplicably speeds up, as though hit by a chipmunk filter, to mirror a car’s boost. The result is far from pleasant.Hot Wheels Unleashed does all of the things a track racing game should do, it serves up a fast-paced, exciting experience that is always fun thanks to a variety of iconic cars and well-designed circuits. The game is let down ultimately by its on cartridge content, there aren’t enough modes and the low effort story mode does little to mask that fact. Fortunately, the creative license given to players to shape and craft content of their own through a really good track editor should be the game’s saving grace long-term.

Got game for my grandson

Got it for my son for Christmas. He loves it. Great graphics

I remember when my brothers would race "slot cars" about a million years ago. But I was too little and couldn't play. Now at age 52, I can race cars too! The graphics on this are just incredible. There are sooo many different tracks and different cars. There are surprise "blind boxes" that have cars in them that can be purchased with tokens that are made by playing races. This game makes a person feel as if they are the same size as the Hot Wheels cars they are racing.. but are in rooms that are full of objects made for big people. It is a real "honey I shrunk the family small enough to really enjoy Hot Wheels cars" moment. I can see kids easily being able to play this one with little to no frustration. But I can also see family being able to stand around and take turns playing trying to beat each other's times... or see someone who is laid up in bed and unable to do much having a ball zooming around in these great looking little cars. I have a developmentally disabled adult son and can't wait to show him that he can "drive the cars" all by himself if he wants to next time he is here. I very much recommend this game. There's a lot of fun packed in this one game box. :)

Grandson loves this game plays all the time