Hot Wheels Unleashed - Nintendo Switch

Bought this as a Christmas present for my 4 year old because he has an older brother with a switch. This is his first and only game and it amazes me everyday how good he is with it!

CJ loves collecting Hot Wheels. These are some of his prized Possessions. So when I saw he loved Hot Wheels, I got him this Game. He couldn't put it down. Great gift for a Avid Hot Wheels Fan or Collector.❤️

My son absolutely loved this as a Christmas gift. His favorite game so far. Keeps him engaged. Would recommend.

Bought for my husband, he likes to battle against one another.

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.

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This is such a cute and fun game for kids and hot wheel loving adults. The graphics are great. It’s easy to play. I would recommend this game.