What this game needs most for immersion is, instead of a traditional racing game reset, the reset is a giant hand picking you up from where you landed, placing you on the track, and then giving you a shove to start going again.
It's so nice to see a game where they didn't go with absolutely horrible, exploitive monetization model even though it would be really easy to do so. Lootboxes available only for in game currency, never thought I would see something like that, especially from a Hot Wheels game, amazing.
Well all the pieces are there to make it exploitative. you already grind for coins to open the blind boxes. 1 patch to sell the boxes for real money and its instantly a piece of shit.
@@heque3321 Honestly, it would mostly make the publisher or developer evil, but the gameplay wouldn't be worse off and if the grinding isn't made worse it is not too bad. Though with this being a hot wheels game it might have more children fall for these currently non-existent micro-transactions.
It's entirely possible they'll add microtransactions in a later update like what Cras Team Racing did. I'd hold off for a month or two to see what happens as the blind bags are still a red flag to me.
Yup, the intro being there again got me like "Oh boy, this is getting weird again", like no joke, it feels strange that the intro is here. In a newer video.
@@slizer452 again, for simplicity sake, as it's a game... the brake... no one is thinking, "huh, there's no mention of the handbrake, how on earth do I drift this thing, I must only use the handbrake, nothing else will be accurate enough for my enjoyment of this GAME...."
So basically, it's Hot Wheels Stunt Track Racer? Now I want you and LGR to do a colab where you have this running on the Hot Wheels computer at like -1FPS.
The blind bags makes me think they're going to do what Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled did, and add microtransations in a later update in about a month's time to skirt around the reviews. Gonna wait a month in case that happens to play it personally, but other than that this looks like a fantastic game!
I don't think so. I think they are going the same route fighting games go of just making a solid game and then milking it with an insane amount of DLC over the next couple of years.
@@FireFox2000000 Yep haha! Also one final note is that Crash Team Racing Nitro Fuelled had a daily rotating store and so created a fake sense of Fear Of Missing Out to make players rush to get the coins and unlock what was in the store that day as you didn't know when/if it would be back again. But in this the cars are just blind boxes and then everything else is just paid DLC. There's no rush because the content isn't arbitrarily locked behind a timer in a silly storefront.
@Turn Back you assume they coukdbt just suddenly make it way harder to earn coins when they add microtransactions. Make it easy now to get good launch reviews and then make it a horrible grind to get any coins in a month or two when they turn on the microtransactions. As for the season pass argument Most games with microtransactions have season passes as well, they are not exclusive ideas
I heard about this game when me and my siblings were marathoning the Hot Wheels Accelerators Movies. I wanna get this game JUST for the one singular accelerators car in it (Which funnily enough was the RD-02, the second car Dan got!) Actually I'm really happy you used the DR-02 for like, all the video.
I used to love my Hot Wheels as a wee nipper, but as a mid-20's old fart I hadn't had much interest in them save for some of the collaborations with Star Wars and the such. However I have a 3 year old nephew and he adores his little toy cars so much, and it always brings me joy when I get him a new one and he loves it. He even shows them off to his parents saying "Uncle Benji got it for me." Basically thank you Hot Wheels for giving me so many happy memories, and helping make new ones.
FUN FACT: the RD-02 has lore. It comes from the acceleracers line (which you can see under the name) which was a sequel to a line called world racers (both of which have movie series that are surprisingly good) and is the main villains minions cars the "RD" stands for "Racing Drone" and "02" for mk. 2, and we see the RD-01 in world racers
Some say he's still driving that circuit, having not stopped since this video. Others say that his fastest lap time is 44.0001 seconds. All we know is... It's Matt's fault
Even though I've already completed the game, I'd love to see a Complete Series of this! You do get different cars at the start of the game. I got the Bumper Car, Camaro, and Tomb Up.
I love how the collisions look and I presume feel like toy cars. In a full size car game you'd get body damage, crumples and crashes but it looks like in this, the cars are as solid as actual hotweels meaning you can bash them together that they're fine. To the point where it changes the gameplay
He started Time Attack, and I immediately got Sonic Mania flashbacks. Then the moment he brought up Sonic, 'ATTEMPT 1' came up, so evidently Dan did too.
you can also upgrade your car after a bit of racing that might help with the speed you need to make it much easier! oh and if you boosted trought the finish it would have helped too since the speed would give you some seconds too! -Backseat Driver
I remember playing Hot Wheels Turbo Racing back on my N64. Such a fun game, glad to see the franchise is still alive and apparently doing quite alright!
This game looks like what I wished Motorstorm RC was. I wanted the tiny cars, but I wanted to play from the regular Motorstorm perspective so the environments looked massive
Before I even knew what RAM was, my family had a shitty 256mb of RAM Dell that could barely play computer games. I taught myself how to read so that I could play hot wheels games on it lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Honestly a big fan that they just let you keep doing laps in the time trial. Too many racing games just boot you back to the main menu once you finish, regardless of whether you got the time you needed or not.
I actually had the black and green hot wheels car when I was a kid, btw that’s also the one from the hot wheels movie So but it actually comes with a super big car (as in like 4 or 5 times the size of normal hot wheels) car that looks almost exactly the same, BUT the small car fits inside the big one like some kind of transformers shit, and then it’s also got a way of like launching the small car
Besides the loot boxes and microtransactions, the actual game design reminds me of the games I used to play in the 90's. I love it! I think Nerf need to make another fps. You have no idea how much I would play that...
I think you’re mistaken on the loot boxes. While they are literal loot boxes, they are exclusively an in-game currency item, and are handed out in the story mode. There also won’t be any micro transactions, since all DLC will just be content.
9:54 I was saying that the other day a hotwheels vr gsme where you could physically build tracks and use the cars it would be great with handtracking I think they should have other toys that you could play with too that you could posses or bring to life
Goddamn I forgot this was coming out. And seeing that Dan got an Acceleracers car means that the developers are going for pure nostalgia and I am going to buy this game ASAP
Seeing this game on steam makes me want them to re-make an old PS1 Hot Wheels game that I love which transformation in it. The game that let your cars transform from land vehicle, to air, to water, which was really fun
"Hamiltoned the fuck out of me"
Them's fighting words Dan
Didn't know Alex Albon went by nerdcubed on youtube
I mean… also true 😂
I think he just threw away his shot.
Silverstone all over again 👀
It wasn't Hamilton, it was Ricky stenhouse jr
What this game needs most for immersion is, instead of a traditional racing game reset, the reset is a giant hand picking you up from where you landed, placing you on the track, and then giving you a shove to start going again.
Pretty sure the old hot wheels games used to do that
This
Yup, if it was in like a fast forwarded way it wouldn't matter I don't think. Don't want it to be too long obvs
So basically stunt track driver
I would love it if a pair of those booster spinners to show up that make your car go.
It's so nice to see a game where they didn't go with absolutely horrible, exploitive monetization model even though it would be really easy to do so. Lootboxes available only for in game currency, never thought I would see something like that, especially from a Hot Wheels game, amazing.
There's already a £25 dlc in a game that costs £50.
Well all the pieces are there to make it exploitative. you already grind for coins to open the blind boxes. 1 patch to sell the boxes for real money and its instantly a piece of shit.
@@heque3321 Honestly, it would mostly make the publisher or developer evil, but the gameplay wouldn't be worse off and if the grinding isn't made worse it is not too bad. Though with this being a hot wheels game it might have more children fall for these currently non-existent micro-transactions.
It's entirely possible they'll add microtransactions in a later update like what Cras Team Racing did. I'd hold off for a month or two to see what happens as the blind bags are still a red flag to me.
so far. crash team racing started that way too
Any time Dan is legit excited about a game and his child-like wonder and enthusiasm shows, no matter how silly, those are always the best videos.
Yep, this and the Lego game that blew his mind spring to mind! Especially the Lego game :)
The fact that Dan still does the intro makes me insanely happy
It left got a while, but it’s back and as good as ever
Yup, the intro being there again got me like "Oh boy, this is getting weird again", like no joke, it feels strange that the intro is here. In a newer video.
Dude I don’t know why but it’s so nostalgic and I never want anything to change about this man.
"they tutorialised the drift"
"they didn't say if there was a brake or not"
what do you think the drift button was, Dan? lol
It is a clutch kick not a brake 👌
@@madjad22 ok, but for simplicity sake if nothing else, in games, the brake is used for drifting
@@iamdb1990 Normally what's used is a handbrake that locks the back wheels but not the front. So not "the brake".
@@slizer452 again, for simplicity sake, as it's a game... the brake... no one is thinking, "huh, there's no mention of the handbrake, how on earth do I drift this thing, I must only use the handbrake, nothing else will be accurate enough for my enjoyment of this GAME...."
@@iamdb1990 Christ, did he say it ruined his enjoyment that it wasn't the handbrake? He was just making an observation
As a fan of Nerd³ since I was a kid, and loving Acceleracers since I was an even smaller kid, I vibe with Dan's reaction to RD-02
The racing drones are here
@@dylandevlin2102 Where? I don't see any racing...
*_WHOOSH_*
...drones...
@@able_archer01 yes love the acceleracer movies wish a fifth one came out but sadly that hasn’t happen yet
I fucking screamed seeing the Racing Drone car, god I miss acceleracers
@@kyzo7001 it’s a great series so the World Race
3:41 But the game does tell you how to brake... Just like how it told you how to get a start boost.
Dan imitating his car's screech at the end just caps off a wonderful video.
3:23 it was at this point Dan knew the pain of the entire country of the Netherlands
*cries in Silverstone*
Thankfully Max won the championship in the end so the pain isn't that big
Hearing the Patreon readout at the start made me feel nostalgic.
It also reminded me that Dan used to actually upload on the regular...
So basically, it's Hot Wheels Stunt Track Racer?
Now I want you and LGR to do a colab where you have this running on the Hot Wheels computer at like -1FPS.
The blind bags makes me think they're going to do what Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled did, and add microtransations in a later update in about a month's time to skirt around the reviews. Gonna wait a month in case that happens to play it personally, but other than that this looks like a fantastic game!
I don't think so. I think they are going the same route fighting games go of just making a solid game and then milking it with an insane amount of DLC over the next couple of years.
@@Flip_91FTW Hopefully that's the case. It's not published by Activision which is a good sign. :P
@@FireFox2000000
Yep haha!
Also one final note is that Crash Team Racing Nitro Fuelled had a daily rotating store and so created a fake sense of Fear Of Missing Out to make players rush to get the coins and unlock what was in the store that day as you didn't know when/if it would be back again.
But in this the cars are just blind boxes and then everything else is just paid DLC. There's no rush because the content isn't arbitrarily locked behind a timer in a silly storefront.
@Turn Back you assume they coukdbt just suddenly make it way harder to earn coins when they add microtransactions.
Make it easy now to get good launch reviews and then make it a horrible grind to get any coins in a month or two when they turn on the microtransactions.
As for the season pass argument
Most games with microtransactions have season passes as well, they are not exclusive ideas
Would not be surprised if someone's already recreated every track from F-Zero in this.
This game is probably the closest we’ll ever get to a new F-ZERO game
it blows me away that they remembered their old acceleracers movies in this game, they need to add racing realms
ABSOLUTELY YES!! I will buy this if a DLC update introduces the realms.
"Attempt 1"
Oh.
Oh no.
Dan. Please. Don't do this.
*violent worms golf flashbacks*
@@UwU-For-You *intense gang beasts flashbacks*
@@CyborusYT Next Car Game Flashbacks
Oh no
I miss gang beasts
In this video: A man that doesn't know the definition of the phrase "racing line" tries to get around a track quickly.
I felt that final track in the deepest parts of my soul.
For some reason the intro really makes me want a rapid roster rundown for this game.
"RD-02" holy FUCK that immediately threw me back that was my favorite car of all the ones I ever owned
"Am I that blind? Jon's rubbing off on me" I'm dead
Watching Dan trying to beat the time trial without using a boost at the start of the lap is pain...
Its great to see dan absolutely loving something like a professional child, brings a tear to my eye.
This game looks absolutely incredible
the stuff we wish we could have done as a kid
“Winning Formula POO, am I right?”
Oh Dan, for the love of God, please never change!
The Acceleracers car instantly sold me on getting this game
You. You get it
@@finn4019 the racing drones are here
I heard about this game when me and my siblings were marathoning the Hot Wheels Accelerators Movies. I wanna get this game JUST for the one singular accelerators car in it (Which funnily enough was the RD-02, the second car Dan got!)
Actually I'm really happy you used the DR-02 for like, all the video.
There'll be more Acceleracers cars coming
Hearing my name in the opening is still quite unreal.
Also, well done on the pronunciation!
I used to love my Hot Wheels as a wee nipper, but as a mid-20's old fart I hadn't had much interest in them save for some of the collaborations with Star Wars and the such. However I have a 3 year old nephew and he adores his little toy cars so much, and it always brings me joy when I get him a new one and he loves it. He even shows them off to his parents saying "Uncle Benji got it for me." Basically thank you Hot Wheels for giving me so many happy memories, and helping make new ones.
Dan's primal joy at this is all I need in life. That and pizza.
3:30 did Dan just make an F1 reference?
legend has it dan is still time attacking that track to this very day!
Dan chose chaos with that Hamilton joke.
It's nice to finally see Dan's descent into a hot wheels speedrunner.
FUN FACT: the RD-02 has lore. It comes from the acceleracers line (which you can see under the name) which was a sequel to a line called world racers (both of which have movie series that are surprisingly good) and is the main villains minions cars the "RD" stands for "Racing Drone" and "02" for mk. 2, and we see the RD-01 in world racers
i miss the patreon opening gags
You could even fit it in with a name, like "and x who once blah blah blah" or something
Aww! That black and green car was one of those cars driven by the killer robots in those hot wheels movies. I used to love them as a kid.
0:26 This game has no microtransactions... YET. Just wait a bit, they're going to add lootboxes after a couple of patches.
Some say he's still driving that circuit, having not stopped since this video.
Others say that his fastest lap time is 44.0001 seconds.
All we know is... It's Matt's fault
I can’t lie I haven’t had a nerd cubed video come in my recommendations since 2015, and I’ve been subbed literally forever 😂😂😂
Oh boy I was totally waiting for Dan to play this game as soon as I saw it was released lol it looks so fun
Even though I've already completed the game, I'd love to see a Complete Series of this! You do get different cars at the start of the game. I got the Bumper Car, Camaro, and Tomb Up.
The ending... man, I forgot how much I loved this channel
I love how the collisions look and I presume feel like toy cars. In a full size car game you'd get body damage, crumples and crashes but it looks like in this, the cars are as solid as actual hotweels meaning you can bash them together that they're fine. To the point where it changes the gameplay
Seeing Dan as happy as I was when I was playing with my own die cast cars makes me happy.
I haven't heard the phrase "Hot Wheels" in like 2 weeks. Take me back to childhood.
Hope he plays the sequel!
I don't know about you guys but I'd absolutely love a completes series on this game
He started Time Attack, and I immediately got Sonic Mania flashbacks.
Then the moment he brought up Sonic, 'ATTEMPT 1' came up, so evidently Dan did too.
Glad to see the old Acceleracers series get some love again. Was not expecting to see the RD-02.
I found out about this game when i was binging all the acceleracers movies. I was so excited to see RD-02 int he game
@@finn4019 I just found out about the game today. I might buy it from Steam.
Time Trials are fun
But soul crushing when you're .001 seconds off
"look how fucking cool that car is" sounded just like his dad lmao
3:10 fun fact, a hard bastard is also known as a bastard generator
you can also upgrade your car after a bit of racing that might help with the speed you need to make it much easier!
oh and if you boosted trought the finish it would have helped too since the speed would give you some seconds too!
-Backseat Driver
I remember playing Hot Wheels Turbo Racing back on my N64. Such a fun game, glad to see the franchise is still alive and apparently doing quite alright!
Never would have thought that toys from childhood would have the potential to become a racing game
The cars look like actual physical toys in the vehicle selection screen.
It's rather uncanny. o_O
I’ve just realised I think Dan learned more about racing in this game than any of the F1 games 😂
This game looks like what I wished Motorstorm RC was. I wanted the tiny cars, but I wanted to play from the regular Motorstorm perspective so the environments looked massive
Before I even knew what RAM was, my family had a shitty 256mb of RAM Dell that could barely play computer games. I taught myself how to read so that I could play hot wheels games on it lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE ATTEMPTS COUNTER! THE BEST VIDEOS HAVE THE ATTEMPT COUNTER!
"The Racing Drones don't make mistakes"
*Cuts to Dan failing a back flip
*cuts to Dan 17:14
Dan giggling like James may from this game is legendary
Watching Dan play has instantly sold me in this game
Honestly a big fan that they just let you keep doing laps in the time trial. Too many racing games just boot you back to the main menu once you finish, regardless of whether you got the time you needed or not.
As soon as I saw "attempt 1" I immediately had a smile on my face from flashbacks to the sonic video
can you imagine if they made it so certain cars you could get a reference code to order the real versions of the ones you have in-game
I would like to see more of this... possibly a series?
I actually had the black and green hot wheels car when I was a kid, btw that’s also the one from the hot wheels movie
So but it actually comes with a super big car (as in like 4 or 5 times the size of normal hot wheels) car that looks almost exactly the same, BUT the small car fits inside the big one like some kind of transformers shit, and then it’s also got a way of like launching the small car
This is like Trackmania crossed with Toybox Turbo/Micro Machines and I LOVE IT.
This chanel is basically nostalgia for adults and without the social norms of not playing with toys
Oh yeah. The Hotwheels cars that were just characters faces plastered on the sides. I still have a few of them. Buried in the box of hundreds.
Besides the loot boxes and microtransactions, the actual game design reminds me of the games I used to play in the 90's. I love it! I think Nerf need to make another fps. You have no idea how much I would play that...
I think you’re mistaken on the loot boxes. While they are literal loot boxes, they are exclusively an in-game currency item, and are handed out in the story mode. There also won’t be any micro transactions, since all DLC will just be content.
Second free car reminded me of "The Homer"
Legends say that he is still trying to make sub-44 to this very day
I haven’t seen Dan this happy sense ever!
Anyone else overjoyed about the accelleracers model?
SAME HERE!
Literally if I buy this game it will be entirely so I can drive the RD-02 around and complain that I don't have any Accelechargers.
9:54 I was saying that the other day a hotwheels vr gsme where you could physically build tracks and use the cars it would be great with handtracking I think they should have other toys that you could play with too that you could posses or bring to life
I want this to be a fucking series bro I would watch tf out of that
If you like the car then I have a set of movies to show you.
HotWheels Acceleraters.
World Race was better though.
I had an RD-02. Cool watching you race my car!
Lootboxes: boooo
Lootboxes in games with no microtransactions, designed to emulate blindbags/toys/etc: YEAAAHHHH
I had two copies of that car in my old hot wheels collection. Think it’s still in the house somewhere
I'm having Sonic Adventure flashbacks watching that last race. So many near misses *shudder*
We need a full series of this
“El Camino that’d be a good name for a movie” Jesse Dan doesn’t know about breaking bad
About time a Hot Wheels game that supercedes the N64 game
I suspect(I hope) that the basement level is a reference to the Hotwheels stunt track driver game.
Jon levels of perception here.
The game told you how to break when it told you how to drift.
nerd3 trusting that this will not have microtransactions slipped in later is more trust than i can muster in the games industry
“They told you how to drift but didn’t tell you whether there was a break or not” you drift by braking (as far as I know)
The speed runs are going to be so nice
Makes me so happy to know you’re still goin
Boost at the start of the race because it always regenerates.
This game reminds me of the hours I'd spend playing Hot Wheels:Beat That on the DS. Oh, the nostalgia.
You've gotta boost before you cross the line to enter your fast lap at Max speed
Goddamn I forgot this was coming out. And seeing that Dan got an Acceleracers car means that the developers are going for pure nostalgia and I am going to buy this game ASAP
Seeing this game on steam makes me want them to re-make an old PS1 Hot Wheels game that I love which transformation in it. The game that let your cars transform from land vehicle, to air, to water, which was really fun
Looks a bit like turbo racer mixed with stunt track driver, and i approve.
I love it when a video starts with a breaking bad reference 😌