As a speed-focused arcade racer, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged is a delight with an emphasis on going fast, collecting Hot Wheels cars spanning decades, and creating your own tracks. However, it lacks the variety of tracks to keep it entirely fresh, and the story mode is a bland affair, resulting in mediocre results rather than the flag it was chasing. Is.
While it may not be as technical as most racing sims or as goofy as the Mario Kart series, Turbocharged doesn’t lack focus. Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 takes you on tracks in the backyard, on the golf course, and other real-world locations that bring back memories of a kid who could dream up his own masterpiece track and then build it wherever he wanted. Could keep up. Loop-de-loops, golf balls, giant spiders, and tight corners provide a chaotic and fun challenge.
It’s fun to focus on speed, speeding up races, just one more thing. You should master your boost in Standard Races, Obstacle Races, Boss Races, and Eliminations, which are my favorites, as you need to maintain a lead for a set amount of time until your only survivor. Surviving cars don’t go away.
Your boost bar is very important as you use it to jump and lateral dash, two features new to the sequel. Players can use the lateral dash to ram into other cars, but this, along with jumps, can also be used mid-flight to bring your car back onto the track, creating chaos during the race. Control takes over. You get a boost by drifting, and thankfully, the mechanic is forgiving and pretty easy to, if not master, at least get a handle on quickly. Different cars have different boosts, which can change how you approach the race. One car can only have a maximum of three bars, giving you three boosts, while the other has a full bar that lets you save or burn as needed.
Finding out how much and often you can hike around the tracks. You can run into a situation where you cannot cross an obstacle. The limited boost made me enjoy it so much that I had to be a little strategic in using it. There were more than one instance where I overdid it, finding myself unable to get past an obstacle or even progress through a course. I never felt cheated, but I had a good laugh and learned from my more motivation. In these cases, holding the button gives you enough motivation to try again, even though you lose a few seconds.
The game includes a story mode, Creature Rampage, but it’s mostly a Saturday morning cartoon affair. The premise of Creature Rampage is simple: giant monsters are unleashed, and your job is to shrink and tame them by racing, all while listening to the jokes of a wisecracking robot, a professor who’s more than good with his gadgets. Does damage. , and a fellow racer. The story plays out like a motion comic, with panels spinning furiously. It’s all a bit forgettable, and I honestly couldn’t wait for the cutscenes to end, but it’s worth getting more coins, upgrades and pieces to get on the race track and customize the track. Doesn’t take long to do.
The nearly eight-hour story mode does a good job of forcing players to use a variety of cars. Hot wheels aren’t just for looking cool. A Rip Rod in the Drifter category takes corners like a dream, while a Swift Mini Cooper is more suited to handle specific track terrain. I loved being pushed to use different cars in different situations, and the types are really important. I used a car that wasn’t suitable for off-roading and couldn’t handle dirty corners, which motivates me to look for new cars. After that shock, I started upgrading my cars to give them different boosts to get different benefits through the perks system, and before I knew it, I was giving my cars new looks. Was customizing along.
I would have enjoyed more variety in track locations during Creature Rampage and other modes as you’re racing through much of the same scene, listening to the same music, and looking at a game that’s reminiscent of past consoles. Looks stuck in the generation with sometimes bland visuals. . It’s not enough to take away from the fun, but before the game ends you’ll find plenty of dinosaur museums and golf courses.
Seeing it as a virtual playbox on top of a racing game is a huge part of the action. The racing is tough, fast and fun, but the need to earn more coins to buy more cars for your virtual garage is appealing. Hot Wheels vehicles have several rarity ratings, and as you play, different vehicles are cycled into a shop on a timer. So, if you see a van with toast coming out, you can buy it before it disappears, like I did. You can also refresh what is for sale with some coins. I couldn’t stop adding vehicles to my collection. The weirder, the better.
Extending customization is the track editor. It only took me a few minutes to get comfortable with the basics before I was making brutal, unrealistic tracks. It’s definitely a feature that takes a while to fully understand, but it’s a lot of fun to pick up a museum track and start hitting obstacle after obstacle on a winding path of destruction and despair. Community tracks allow you to save people you want to see again. If you’re even a little creative or like throwing things together like me, the track editor and car customization offer plenty of fun ways to get more mileage out of the game.
Players can also compete against others online in standard fare such as speed races, round off the game’s features. Given the creativity in other parts of the game, the online offerings feel plain vanilla, but it’s still a good time to show off your custom car.
I Can’t Knock Hot Wheels 2: Super Turbocharged; It’s a fun, arcade-like racer that feels like something you’d find in an arcade. It captures what it’s like to be a kid imagining race courses for your toys and offers an almost awesome customizable playbox. Fast-paced races and a variety of modes never let things slow down before you move on to your next objective, expanding your path to victory. I’m not a Hot Wheels diehard, but the sheer creativity, speed and customization impressed me.