I don’t know that I’d say yet that there’s a big difference in the fundamental feel of the racing itself depending on the environment I was racing through, but I think the backdrops are very good, and notably varied. The preview build didn’t feature the track editor planned for the game but I suspect the potential of that will be huge. The tracks themselves are made up of big spans of plastic Hot Wheels track and sections of the world itself, so a circuit may utilise benches, vents, the floor, or indeed any other surface you could whip a die cast car across. This is probably where the cars seemed at their absolute tiniest. The skyscraper boasts a lot more verticality, and a really impressive outdoor space that stretches out to the horizon with a fluffy layer of low cloud beneath. The garage is quite a dark environment, but in a good way, because Hot Wheels Unleashed looks particularly slick in low light. Some of the environments only had a single track available for this preview, but that was enough to experience how different the backdrops are from one another. This initial build of Hot Wheels features several of the games environments, including the garage, the skyscraper, the skate park, and the college campus. They just look fantastically seated into the environments, and that seems thanks to some seriously impressive lighting that’s doing a very convincing job of really showcasing the contrasting scales on display here – the tiny cars and the mammoth, life-sized worlds. Out on the tracks themselves, though, the cars arguably look even better – even after they’ve been scratched up and chipped during a race. It would be cool to see some of the ’70s and ’80s models with the Redline and Ultra Hots wheels I remember from my own childhood, for instance.
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At any rate, the full game will reportedly feature over 60 cars, so hopefully some older Hot Wheels cars will also be included. That said, reissues like the classic Twin Mill obviously date back a lot further.
There were 28 different cars available in the preview version, all of which hit pegs within the last 10 years (the menu notes when the model was released). I know my sons got particularly excited whenever they saw one they knew was in the Hot Wheels bucket tucked away in their wardrobe. Don't miss out on the chance to download this game if you're into extreme racing.It took me a long while to even enter a race because I lost a huge amount of time looking through the car list and just inspecting them.