There is another section in the shop that has five available cars, which can also be purchased with these coins.
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The game does let you sell cars, or convert them into gears, a currency used to upgrade the cars, but it still sucks, as once the campaign is over, the only way to get coins is to do races either locally or online.
The issue with this way of unlocking cars is that duplications are easy to come by. The money earned from playing the game, be it from races or taking part in the campaign, can be used to buy a box, 500 coins a time, for a random vehicle to be added to the collection. Personally, I’d love to see James Bond’s vast list of cars, Mad Max’s legendary car, and the Jurassic Park Jeep.īlind boxes are probably ringing alarm bells for some people, and while these do behave in a similar fashion as loot boxes, there is no real-life monetisation. From Knight Rider, The Party Wagon from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and of course, the DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future! The developers have teased more coming that will include such licences as Street Fighter, DC Comics and Barbie. The last category is one that got me excited, as it features legendary cars like K.I.T.T. The Hot Wheels side is more outrageous, stuff like the Veloci Racer (a raptor on top of a car), the Total Disposal (Rubbish Truck) and Roller Toaster (a toaster on wheels). Representing real-life vehicles are the likes of the Honda S2000, Ford Mustang GT and Audi Sport Quattro.
Cars are key to the game, it is the brand of Hot Wheels after all. Over 60 are currently available to own, with more coming in the future. It would not be Hot Wheels without having a nice variety of cars to drive, so one of its features is the concept of collecting a diverse list of real-life, fantasy or iconic cars. On the first launch, the player is greeted with blind boxes that unboxes the first three cars to start the collection rolling. Milestone might not have a pedigree in arcade racers, but this has not stopped them from releasing an incredibly fun racer. Milestone, a studio known for racing games, such as MotoGP, Ride, and some of the earlier WRC FIA World Rally Championship titles, has created a game based on the Hot Wheels licence, bringing plenty of famous cars converted into their tiny die-cast models ready to speed around on those iconic orange plastic tracks. When Forza Horizon 3 released its Hot Wheels downloadable content it showed the potential and fun that could be had with the property. Let us be honest, we all tried to push them as fast as possible to see which one would launch off the track at the corner. The likes of Lamborghini Countach or a Ferrari F40, and even some of the normal cars, such as the Volkswagen Beetle, and having them race around custom-created tracks from pieces of orange plastic. There was something joyous about owning famous sports cars in your own tiny collection.
When I think of Hot Wheels it sends me back to the late 80s, a time in which I was a kid playing with my Commodore 64, had a wooden CRT TV, and plenty of small miniature cars, both of the Hot Wheels and Matchbox variety.