I was so worried that this game was gonna just be average licensed garbage, but I'm so happy it's good! Now, all we need is DLC that lets you play as AcceleRacers and World Race cars and race on those tracks!
@@SnowToast282 I know that, but I mean more than just Teku and Wave Ripper representation. I want to see Silencerz, Metal Maniacs, Scorchers, Road Beasts, Street Breed, and Dune Ratz cars. Hell, the option to race in the AcceleDrome would be sick.
I still dream of racing on those accelaracers tracks. Though if they ever do a sequel to this I hope they take a lot of inspiration from World Race. It would be neat to have the cars fill different niche's or have different abilities rather than basically be the same thing but slightly different stats
Yeah, a lot of the reviewers have sounded genuinely surprised at how much they liked it. This one hadn't been on my radar either, but now it's on my wishlist. (But I'm not paying fifty bucks for it...)
There's nothing to fear. They definitely will, so this is not a hypothetical. Their previous games had DLC vehicles, so I don't see why this one wouldn't.
I was kinda hesitant to buy this game because it's a licensed game and those have a poor track record but after hearing this I'm definitely going to buy it
I have a feeling they may not ever add real money transactions at least for the loot boxes. The game is very clearly marketed towards children, since Hot Wheels is a children's IP. Having loot boxes in a game specifically made for kids is just a recipe for a PR nightmare.
C T R !!!!! Is all that is flashing in my mind they said they wouldn't as well but three months in Opps did i break that promise... Lets hope its not the case here
I remember playing Hot Wheels Turbo Racing on the N64 when I was little, SO much fun, seeing this makes me think back fondly on those memories, might pick this up.
Thanks for playing KC 🙏 I'm nowhere near a fan of racers but I agree that this looks like a ton of loving detail work went into it ☺️ I think Vie would have liked to see that museum aspect too but I get the impression they either didn't think of it or maybe wanted to get everything else right first before trying to start there. I hope you and yours are as well as you all can be 🍻 Cheers and thanks for all you make!
Watching this game makes me feel nostalgic. While I don't think I will play it today, my kid self would have played it and I think it would be something that I would have spent hours playing. I think the closest thing to that experience with toys was some Bionicles game that I had for pc.
Started downloading this an hour ago due to the reviews and nostalgia, then I saw this pop up on my subscriptions, and almost freaked out seeing who uploaded it. I'm so used to Yahtzee's reviews I expected this to be a butchering. So glad to see I made a good choice
Didn't knew this game and was kind of expecting the review to say it was meh at best due to it being a licensed one, but now I'm thinking about adding it to my wishlist.
I agree more information on the cars.. or even other modes using them (like some sort of Top trump card game) is something they might want to put in a subsequent game. I think that would speak to the collect-ability angle nicely.
Looks brilliant! Been a while since ive been tempted to buy a silly arcadey racer. Looks like a next gen version of those Codemasters Micro Machines games!
It really doesn't seem like the game is following through on the potential of driving a tiny car. Seems like instead of navigating familiar environments at tiny scale, you're just sorta driving on hovering tracks with a little bit of set dressing in the distance
@@pug307wayne well forgive me, then, 90% of the gameplay I've seen so far has been on tracks floating in the middle of a room rather than navigating around furniture/obstacles/etc like they did in the old Stunt Track Driver games
Realistically, people are probably either still skeptical or in disbelief that a Hot Wheels game can actually be good. As a fan of the brand I don't see it, Hot Wheels has always been good fun, although if I were to put myself in their shoes, I guess a game about toy cars is questionable. That being said, I highly recommend this game. It being a Hot Wheels game aside, gameplay is fun and damn near addicting. Both the track builder and livery editor are very in depth, official track design is remarkable, physics and handling are perfect for the arcade style racing, and there's something for everyone with the variety of the roster. Definitely worth the money
I wish the Xbox store had the option to buy both generation versions of the game in a bundle. I don't want to have to completely re-buy it when Series X's are in stock again in 5 years.
Can confirm that classic vehicles are definitely in this game, they're the rarer Super Treasure Hunt or secret cars. Also Bassline from Acceleracers and Deora II from World Race have both been confirmed for DLC if you're an early 2000s kid like me, and RD-02 is already present in game
Hot Wheels came on the scene and outperformed Matchbox to the point that Mattel was able to buy out Matchbox and now owns both. Can't really say Hot Wheels are cheap mate 😂
Word of warning for playing with friends. In splitscreen P2 won’t earn any account progress. Also, no coins for P1 either. Playing online against a friend in a private lobby doesn’t fill with AI. If you don’t want to play against strangers, it will be just the two of you. Finally, there is no co-op for main game. Me and my kids like to progress in split screen together on these sort of ganes, but you can’t on this. Disappointing. Single player seems good though.
I was so worried that this game was gonna just be average licensed garbage, but I'm so happy it's good! Now, all we need is DLC that lets you play as AcceleRacers and World Race cars and race on those tracks!
Some acceleracers and world race car dlc is confirmed
Like the baseline and the deora 2
@@SnowToast282 I know that, but I mean more than just Teku and Wave Ripper representation. I want to see Silencerz, Metal Maniacs, Scorchers, Road Beasts, Street Breed, and Dune Ratz cars. Hell, the option to race in the AcceleDrome would be sick.
@@Double_D__ Fair. I would love to have Kadeems car
I still dream of racing on those accelaracers tracks. Though if they ever do a sequel to this I hope they take a lot of inspiration from World Race. It would be neat to have the cars fill different niche's or have different abilities rather than basically be the same thing but slightly different stats
Wow I clicked on this video expecting a massacre, but suddenly I'm thinking about buying a Hot Wheels game 😂
Yeah, a lot of the reviewers have sounded genuinely surprised at how much they liked it. This one hadn't been on my radar either, but now it's on my wishlist. (But I'm not paying fifty bucks for it...)
@Jason Blalock Same. This is a solid $20-$30 purchase for me
Bruh Hot Wheels games are good. Velocity X and World Race are god tier.
This game looks sick but I fear them patching microtransactions in after getting early sales.
There's nothing to fear. They definitely will, so this is not a hypothetical. Their previous games had DLC vehicles, so I don't see why this one wouldn't.
@@Mezurashii5 I'm okay with some DLC vehicles. I'm worried about that in-game shop getting patched to sell in-game currency for real money.
You can take a watch of Skill Up's review. He's pretty sure microtransactions are coming due to how anemic currency is.
It was publicly stated that there will never be an in game currency exchange for real world money.
@@AlexTheGuac Unfortunately, this has been shown to be lies in the past sometimes.
When the two upcoming games I’m most interested in are a Nickelodeon Smash Bros. clone and this
The 2020’s are a decade of unexpected chaos.
I love how the campaign missions takes place on a playmat
I was kinda hesitant to buy this game because it's a licensed game and those have a poor track record but after hearing this I'm definitely going to buy it
What's wrong with license d game?
"While that doesn't sound all that enticing..." stop, I'm already sold.
KC is killing it with these reviews. Keep it up, man!
I too was worried this wouldn't live up to the hot wheels racing game of my youth. I'm glad to see that isn't the case.
I better get to race my USS Enterprise.
This really feels like a "no real money transactions.....yet" game
I have a feeling they may not ever add real money transactions at least for the loot boxes. The game is very clearly marketed towards children, since Hot Wheels is a children's IP. Having loot boxes in a game specifically made for kids is just a recipe for a PR nightmare.
C T R !!!!! Is all that is flashing in my mind they said they wouldn't as well but three months in Opps did i break that promise... Lets hope its not the case here
@@MrKingkez yeah they did this with ctr and i was so pissed i swore to boycott them forever
I remember playing Hot Wheels Turbo Racing on the N64 when I was little, SO much fun, seeing this makes me think back fondly on those memories, might pick this up.
Thanks for playing KC 🙏 I'm nowhere near a fan of racers but I agree that this looks like a ton of loving detail work went into it ☺️ I think Vie would have liked to see that museum aspect too but I get the impression they either didn't think of it or maybe wanted to get everything else right first before trying to start there. I hope you and yours are as well as you all can be 🍻 Cheers and thanks for all you make!
Watching this gave me flashbacks to playing Stunt Track Driver as a little kid. Except now everything is rendered real-time instead of being an FMV.
Memories of Stunt GP start coming back... I think I'll be buying this one.
Watching this game makes me feel nostalgic. While I don't think I will play it today, my kid self would have played it and I think it would be something that I would have spent hours playing. I think the closest thing to that experience with toys was some Bionicles game that I had for pc.
How do I download people’s custom made tracks? So I can play them.. I can’t seem to find the option to do so. Only to create and upload..
Started downloading this an hour ago due to the reviews and nostalgia, then I saw this pop up on my subscriptions, and almost freaked out seeing who uploaded it. I'm so used to Yahtzee's reviews I expected this to be a butchering. So glad to see I made a good choice
I use to play "hot wheels - stunt track" on the PC when I was a kid for hours on end. I'll have to get this
Didn't knew this game and was kind of expecting the review to say it was meh at best due to it being a licensed one, but now I'm thinking about adding it to my wishlist.
I agree more information on the cars.. or even other modes using them (like some sort of Top trump card game) is something they might want to put in a subsequent game. I think that would speak to the collect-ability angle nicely.
Blind box is a fancy way to say loot box
Unleashed is a good subtitle for a video game.
I wish they would release the Battle Force 5 DLC pack where it has everything, from the vehicles to the stages and hell even the main theme
Got the game, can confirm it is hella awesome. Gonna mess with the track editor this weekend when I’m not working lol
Great review! Short & sweet!
Soooo gonna get this for Switch. Wish had gotten more info on multiplayer modes. Two player split screen and 12 online. (Switch)
Looks brilliant! Been a while since ive been tempted to buy a silly arcadey racer. Looks like a next gen version of those Codemasters Micro Machines games!
Really? Hw isnt like that games and the games is born 80's
I'm normally not into racing games but this looks and sounds pretty good I'm gonna have to try it
Currently €5,99 in de eshop and €11,99 for the game of the year version. Bought ❤
It really doesn't seem like the game is following through on the potential of driving a tiny car. Seems like instead of navigating familiar environments at tiny scale, you're just sorta driving on hovering tracks with a little bit of set dressing in the distance
@@pug307wayne well forgive me, then, 90% of the gameplay I've seen so far has been on tracks floating in the middle of a room rather than navigating around furniture/obstacles/etc like they did in the old Stunt Track Driver games
I used to play a hotwheels game just like this back in the day so ofcourse i bought it
Realistically, people are probably either still skeptical or in disbelief that a Hot Wheels game can actually be good. As a fan of the brand I don't see it, Hot Wheels has always been good fun, although if I were to put myself in their shoes, I guess a game about toy cars is questionable.
That being said, I highly recommend this game. It being a Hot Wheels game aside, gameplay is fun and damn near addicting. Both the track builder and livery editor are very in depth, official track design is remarkable, physics and handling are perfect for the arcade style racing, and there's something for everyone with the variety of the roster. Definitely worth the money
I remember the N64 hot wheels racing game
Ahhh
Sounds like a lot of microtransactions there
49.99 seems a tad steep, I was expecting 30 quid or something, but I'll consider it, looks fun at least
I wish the Xbox store had the option to buy both generation versions of the game in a bundle. I don't want to have to completely re-buy it when Series X's are in stock again in 5 years.
This game will have microtransactions added before Christmas. Mark my words.
They’ve already outlined their DLC plans with an expansion pass, etc. Not really a surprise for this type of game.
This looks like a ton of fun
Sucks that the cars are the modern hotwheels instead of the classic ones, don't recognize any of these
you havent seen enough yet
Can confirm that classic vehicles are definitely in this game, they're the rarer Super Treasure Hunt or secret cars. Also Bassline from Acceleracers and Deora II from World Race have both been confirmed for DLC if you're an early 2000s kid like me, and RD-02 is already present in game
They need to allow me to invite my friends before going into muliplayer
forget about cheap hotwheels. remember the high detailed matchbox metal toy cars with actual springs build in :)
Hot Wheels came on the scene and outperformed Matchbox to the point that Mattel was able to buy out Matchbox and now owns both. Can't really say Hot Wheels are cheap mate 😂
@@joeysandoval5269 they're cheap in quality build and attention to detail. i own a lot of both of them, mint condition :)
@@McpCosmO Debatable, the few Matchbox cars I've had in my life couldn't compare to Hot Wheels imo tbh
I borrowed this game from my friends.... Honestly... Its fun as fuck
Sponge 🧽 Bob new season out now!
I miss mod Nation racer.
Wow you just reminded me about amazing memories
Not a bad game
So, kids play with the cars in the game instead of just playing with the cars.
How wheels unleashed or just another racing gamr
ok neat I'll just remake mario kart.
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@@JahTsir He'll be trying to make Mario kart tracks using the track creator mode.
@@misterbadass2089 I had a brain fart. Lol. I read it wrong.
Stay away from the switch version. Its laggy, uglier and buggier when compared to the other versions.
Word of warning for playing with friends. In splitscreen P2 won’t earn any account progress. Also, no coins for P1 either. Playing online against a friend in a private lobby doesn’t fill with AI. If you don’t want to play against strangers, it will be just the two of you. Finally, there is no co-op for main game. Me and my kids like to progress in split screen together on these sort of ganes, but you can’t on this. Disappointing. Single player seems good though.
Slow day at the escapist, huh? And I'll give this 10/10 if they have the Thomas the tank engine x hot wheels collab
Slow day? It's a good game lol, we had a fun time previewing it too.
@@theescapist they need to add a party system for inviting friends before going into lobbies