Surprise! Hot Wheels has a neat, addictive campaign called Hot Wheels City Rumble, which presents you with a top-down, birds eye view of a city, complete with bridges, rivers, skate parks, suburbs and skyscrapers. We Built This City on Rock and Roll City of Races You can collect new vehicles by either earning in-game coins and buying a “Blind Box” or via rewards through playing the campaign. There are also Super Treasure Hunt cars that can only be found or purchased, like the Ford Hot Heap or the Twin Mill. Vehicles can even be upgraded to improve their stats through collecting ‘gears’ – a kind of in-game upgrade currency – that can be obtained via winning races or dismantling unwanted vehicles. Every vehicle has a rarity level the rarer the car, the better the attributes assigned to it – usually. It’s quite a collection too, from a Bumper Car, a ’32 Ford, the Rodger Dodger, a Tank – I’ve raced against Back to the Future’s Delorean a few times, though I haven’t collected it yet, and I want it bad. The various textures and materials, from a moulded plastic shell to a lacquered metal engine block shine in Unreal Engine, and when placed on the tracks themselves, they look perfect, like someone has pulled them off your shelf and into the game. Unlike the popular Hot Wheels DLC for Forza Horizon, which upscaled the cars to make them fit in an open world to be raced against real cars, Milestone have recreated 66 Hot Wheels cars for launch, all to the scale of the original toys, and they’ve done a fantastic job. Unequivocally yes, and I’m going to tell you why.
The nostalgia trip for young and aging Hot Wheels fans is high here, but have developers Milestone created a game worthy of the license? However, that changed again over the last week or so, as he got to hang out with Dad, and race recognisable toys from his collection all over again. Now aged 7, he’s cooled on them a bit, being way into Minecraft in a way I could never have imagined. We have enough cars for every parking spot.
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