The only problem that the Bump Around has is that its combination of half full speed and Free Boost makes it a poor choice for straighter tracks because of how slowly the boost can be filled, even when performing multiple actions at once. It's STH version is even more so the better version, hands down, while also being the best Super Treasure Hunt you can get. And yet, this kind of boost type and how much you have is probably the perfect choice for not only executing tricky aerial shortcuts, but also learning them. It may have Free Boost, but it is also one of the biggest boost bars in the game. While it may not be the fastest vehicle in the world, its insane Boost is what carries it up to the top ranks. It has pretty solid cornering, though not the best, but still remains as an extremely viable vehicle to use. It's off the line acceleration is perhaps the most rabid in the game, which means it can get up to its max speed almost instantaneously with a successful boost start. Well for what it offers, it is actually one of the best vehicles around. Maybe you thought that the Bump Around was a joke vehicle the entire time. This is also one of the 8 vehicles in the game that has a Super Treasure Hunt version. ![]() It is one of the 24 Common cars by default and its casting is based on the 2018 HW Fun Park. The Bump Around is one of the 65 playable vehicles in Hot Wheels Unleashed. Hopefully, the devs at Milestone will use these next few months to add some spit-shine (and maybe a virtual archive of some sort that chronicles the Hot Wheels brand’s 53 years of existence?) to an already adept addition to the racing game category.(The sole purpose of these photos is for YouTube thumbnails for the gameplay videos of these cars that will soon go up whenever I decide to do them) C’mon, Hot Wheels people… don’t steal from His Purple Badness! Jeez, let the man rest… and stop “borrowing” his shit.Īll told, Hot Wheels Unleashed is shaping up to be a rather enjoyable, little racing game with a longstanding and historically fascinating license attached. My only real complaint (beyond the fact that I would have really loved to try the aforementioned Track Builder mode as that’s always been a favorite feature of mine since I was introduced to those kinds of options on the C64 with EA’s sublime Racing Destruction Set) with this demo and/or preview build is that there’s a song on the soundtrack that most definitely feels like it was lifted from Prince’s early classic, I Wanna Be Your Lover. ![]() And, speaking of the difficulty levels, the AI seems fair enough as I didn’t notice any “rubberbanding” (an annoying feature found typically in racing games that allows computer-controlled opponents to catch up no matter how far behind they are… Its intention: to keep challenging the player – but it also tends to give AI opponents an unfair advantage) or out-and-out cheating… Especially when I was in the lead. The available tracks are creative and diverse throughout the various difficulties (easy, medium, and hard), with only a couple of unfair obstacles, mainly the mechanical/cut-out spiders that randomly shoot impeding webs down at your car. There are no real “weapons” as there are in a true kart racer but, to be fair, Hot Wheels Unleashed seems to be more about the need for speed and driving skill, rather than blowing up your opponents to achieve victory. And racing is fun, as it should be in a racing game: the controls are tight and responsive, drifting seems on-point, as do the amount of power-ups and/or boosts that are available on the tracks. You select your car… you select your track…then, BOOM, it is race time. Quick Race plays like any other racing game, or your garden-variety kart racer that’s been released over the last decade or so. What was meandering through his four-year-old brain while he was doing this one of the most fascinating mysteries of the universe… probably it was something akin to what’s going on in this new Hot Wheels racing game, Hot Wheels Unleashed. He would have meticulous lines of 30 to 40 tiny cars everywhere, and he would sit there for hours on end just slowly rolling them along the arms and back of the couch. Take my word for it.Īlthough, my enduring memory of him and his Hot Wheels cars will always be the literal convoys he would construct that ran up and down and all over our living room couch. And yes, the goddamn Hot Wheels hurt just as bad, if not worse, than LEGOs, quite notorious for exactly this. ![]() He had scores of the damn things which he used to leave everywhere, and that made them prime targets for accidentally stepping on in bare feet. Joe and super heroic Mego action figures of that era, but my youngest brother, Mike, loved Hot Wheels cars. Personally, I never was a huge fan of the Hot Wheels cars as I preferred the G.I. Looks like something the Joker would roll up in.
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