![]() They recently announced a pretty aggressive post-launch DLC roadmap for the game that includes three separate DLC packs with new licensed vehicles, so I was glad to see some of these iconic cars already included in the base game. You can also unlock more as you go along and pick up loot crates – and some of these include favorites will mean little to younger players but will get their dads excited, like the DeLorean that I eventually picked up. Speaking of cars – there’s a whole range of them to play with, as you’d expect. And then there’s little smudges and fingerprints that look like there were handled by kids and their greasy fingers – it’s great stuff, and all these little touches really make these feel like toys rather than full sized racers. Text printed on the underside? Absolutely – even though that’s a detail you wouldn’t even think to check for it brings a smile to your face when you see your car upside down. A damage model that resembles how actual toy cars get damaged with little chips? Check. ![]() What’s also a cool touch is that all of the car models were designed to look exactly like real toys too, with plastic tops, metal undersides and a ton of details that fans will adore. In other words, you’re racing actual toy cars inside large environments, and mostly across plastic orange tracks that wind and loop all around entire rooms and other locations. Hot Wheels Unleashed is a very different beast, and possibly their most fun racer yet.įilled with nostalgia and a love for the source material, the game takes the Hot Wheels license and doesn’t plaster it over a regular racer – instead taking the Micro Machines approach and placing these cars in real life environments that are true to size. Since then, Milestone has been almost exclusively developing race games, but mostly sim-like games like the WRC, Ride and MXGP titles. What was also exciting about that announcement was that Milestone was developing it, and that meant a return to their roots of arcade racing that started with the Screamer games for MS-DOS computers – essentially a PC take on the Daytona USA that was groundbreaking at the time. Lucky for us, that wait was over when Hot Wheels Unleashed was announced earlier this year. ![]() And yes, we ignored all the so-so adaptations of the franchise that were released in the past, but Forza showed us how the experience could work – and that was just a DLC package for a different game. The game’s out now for PCs and both the last and new console generation, and we’ve been loving our time with the PlayStation 5 version.Įver since that Hot Wheels DLC was released for Forza Horizon, we’ve been thinking how great it would be if someone made a full game out of an experience like that. If you were looking for a fun racer to play, then you no doubt had Hot Wheels Unleashed on your radar already.
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