Hot Wheels Unleashed
September 30, 2021
Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races. COLLECTOR OR ARTIST? BOTH The most iconic and sought after Hot Wheels™ vehicles are waiting for you. Get ready to make them race at full speed! Stand out in the crowd by setting …
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Critic Reviews (31)
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70.0
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60.0
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40.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed has a lot of good concepts and ideas that are sullied by awkward execution and weird design choices. Its physics could use some more fine-tuning, and its AI needs to be rebalanced, along with a revamped track …"
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25.0
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35.0
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15.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed feels less like a cohesive racing experience and more like a framework where more and more Hot Wheels branded content can live as the months go on. This comes through not only in the lackluster presentation but …"
Read original review"Hot wheels Unleashed is, in some ways, a brilliant arcade driving video game. Simple, immediate, fun and adrenaline just enough, supported by an excellent technical sector and which offers one of the best circuit editors that have been seen in …"
Read original review"Hot Wheels Unleashed is the Hot Wheels racing game that we have been waiting on for a while. It delivers outside of a few hiccups."
Read original review"As it stands right now, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a fun racer whose fantastic selection of cars makes up for its relative lack of varied course environments. With updates and DLC it has the potential to become a brilliant mess …"
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70.0
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90.0
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30.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is an excellent arcade racing games with some truly inventive and crazy tracks, wonderfully recreated Hot Wheels toys that drive beautifully and the visuals to back it all up. Unfortunately an in-balance of reasonably long to extremely …"
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85.0
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95.0
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70.0
"A tavern full of toy cars to have fun with thanks to a fun and clean arcade guide model."
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75.0
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90.0
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60.0
"For Hot Wheels fans a must, for friends of arcade racers also a recommendation with compromises."
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75.0
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80.0
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45.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed puts the brand to perfect use, marrying bright and bold toy car racing with powerful track creation."
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68.0
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68.0
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64.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is a decent racer with some excellent surrounding elements. It lacks the strategy and realism of a sim, but doesn’t hit the over-the-top chaos and action of an arcade racer either. Despite that, the amount of customization …"
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92.0
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88.0
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45.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is an instant classic, a licensed game with AAA production values that never stops delivering thrills. With enough content and features to satisfy the most demanding audience, Hot Wheels focus on razor sharp arcade racing delivers exactly …"
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70.0
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90.0
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50.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is an experience that manages to combine the mystique of collecting so pure and innocent of miniature cars with the most daring races. It offers variety and quality wherever you look at it and the talent of …"
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90.0
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75.0
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35.0
"Despite some balancing issues and some issues with how cars are obtained, Hot Wheels Unleashed is still a ton of fun thanks to its breakneck-speed racing, a detailed track editor that would make your inner child jealous, awesome collectible cars, …"
Read original review"Hot Wheels Unleashed is an excellent arcade racing game that doesn&s;t fully embrace some of the wackier parts of the toy brand."
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75.0
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80.0
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30.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is a fast-paced racer that captures the frantic action of the miniature, diecast toys. The momentum-based gameplay helps to create intense races where anyone can win or lose. Even though the tracks are exciting and varied, the …"
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75.0
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70.0
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80.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is a fantastic arcade racer at its core, but the overall product is hurt by the gacha mechanics."
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85.0
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92.0
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35.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed is one of the best arcade racers to release on modern consoles in years."
Read original review"Hot Wheels Unleashed is a game that tugs at my nostalgia for collecting these cars. I just wish the aggressive DLC plans and grinding for new cars didn’t sour that experience so much. When I was playing I was having …"
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70.0
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45.0
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30.0
"Fans of the toy line will likely find stunning digital recreations of the cars they love here, whether now or in one of many content updates already on the cards, along with a generally competent racer to use them in. …"
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98.0
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92.0
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"Carefully detailed, highly customisable, and buoyantly uncynical, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a surprising and brilliant arcade racer."
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70.0
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85.0
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30.0
"More enjoyable and captivating than a first glance suggests, this arcade-style racer is fast and fun"
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70.0
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65.0
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30.0
"Although driving is super fun, the design of the career mode feels boring and samey after the first hour. Hopefully the multiplayer will be able to lend the game some more longevity."
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50.0
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50.0
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50.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed starts off blazing fast but ends up as a shallow kart racer."
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75.0
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68.0
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35.0
"Toy cars, delightfully crunchy tracks and high speeds are what await in Hot Wheels Unleashed. Although the variety is different in terms of both race types and the feeling in the vehicles, there is nothing to stop the race from …"
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60.0
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65.0
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30.0
"Hot Wheels Unleashed isn&s;t perfect, but it still has the potential of fun."
Read original review"A cracking little arcade racer from a studio better acquainted with motorcycle sims, Hot Wheels Unleashed is like sticking both hands into a big toy box of die-cast cars, pulling them all out, then thrashing them around a racetrack. And …"
Read original review"Not only a blast of die-cast nostalgia, but a brilliant arcade racer to boot with superb customisation options."
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75.0
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90.0
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"Hot Wheels Unleashed is one of the most entertaining racing games of the year and a love letter to fans of this franchise. Without a doubt, an unmissable entry."
Read original review"Hot Wheels Unleashed is a rock solid arcade racing game that gets a lot of things right, but doesn&s;t quite measure up in some areas."
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70.0
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60.0
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50.0
"I enjoyed playing Hot Wheels Unleashed a lot. The racing is straight up fun thanks to a top notch handling model that really makes the most of some impressive powersliding mechanics. But I can&s;t help but wonder what could have …"
Read original review"Hot Wheels Unleashed impressed me on basically every marker. It looks terrific, it feels great, and the track design is extremely well done. I kind of hate the blind box approach of unlocking cars, but that’s a small complaint when …"
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