This game is currently in the Humble Choice for August 2022, this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before September 6nd, 2022, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Racing little toy cars, in epic courses.
Hot Wheels are almost a rite of passage, and almost everyone has seen these toys. Now you can grab them and race them around the course at breakneck speed, taking your favorite vehicles and drifting and zipping through a track to master the corners. There are a lot of different cars and many classic designs. The racing feels good, and mastering the drift or the courses will take you time. Multiple difficulties range from extremely simple to challenging to impossible depending on how you want to approach the game.
But Hot Wheels Unleashed also dabbles in a lot of gray areas. Getting randomized loot in blind boxes means progression is randomized. I even got a duplicate on my fourth box opened, which sucks. There are Daily quests to prompt FOMO, a battle pass, and DLC, a lot of DLC, there are currently 61 pieces of DLC and they will cost over 200 dollars to buy them all, not that people would, hopefully. But this feels like a game designed to at least make you consider paying more. The races are a bit unforgiving as well, where if you wipe out in the final two laps, there’s almost no chance of getting back to first place on harder difficulties.
Pick this up if you like Arcade racing games or have a fondness for Hot Wheels. This is a lot of fun to see the famous hot wheel licenses. But there’s still a slimy slayer here of the game being a platform to demand more money and shove battle passes at the player. But the biggest sin is that Hot Wheels Unleashed doesn’t go completely off the wall with the idea from the first moment of this game. I just want to jump a ring of fire in the tutorial.
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However this review is based on it being in Humble Choice, at 50 dollars, I would not pay for this game and must not recommend it, especially with how the game is laid out.
2.5