Race events, time trials and stunt courses see you racing around the iconic orange track, with intuitive touchscreen controls.
Hot Wheels: Extreme Racing (2001)īeing a mobile game, Hot Wheels: Race Off couldn’t be simpler.
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Up against tough competition on the PSP – just check out our best PSP racing games list to see what Hot Wheels: Ultimate Racing had to compete with – this unfortunately steep difficulty level meant that the game perhaps didn’t reach the audience it should have had, but despite the aforementioned issues, it still remains one of the best Hot Wheels games! 5.
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Making the slightest mistake resets you in awkward places and some collectibles are placed in ridiculous spots if you miss a single medal on a track, you have to redo the entire series of tracks in sequence again to grab it! The reason for that is its brutal difficulty (seriously, this one puts up a hell of a challenge!) – despite gorgeous visuals, a great soundtrack and some solid track design (featuring elements from actual Hot Wheels playsets), it really does feel incredibly unforgiving. Though Hot Wheels: Ultimate Racing is a handheld, PSP exclusive, it’s a genuinely enjoyable game that stops short of making it to the top half of the best Hot Wheels games list. Oddly, this game is based on an obscure CGI movie, which – like many Hot Wheels tie-in shows and films – was basically an extended and not very interesting toy commercial. Though a little derivative, this 35th Anniversary celebration of Hot Wheels has (appropriately) 35 cars to choose from and some excellent multiplayer action (up to four players supported on GameCube – sadly only two player simultaneous gaming on PS2). With loops and jumps on dizzying tracks in volcanoes, mountains and space, this one certainly felt unique and varied, but the environments lacked detail and resolution, making it look a bit dated even when it was initially released.
Hot Wheels: World Race (2003)Īnother Hot Wheels game takes the sci-fi setting route, which was clearly quite a popular choice back in the 2000s!Īnd nothing screams ‘early 2000s’ more than Smash Mouth being on the soundtrack for Hot Wheels: World Race (sadly, it’s not All Star – which, thanks to Shrek, is definitely their most memorable song!). The almost cyberpunk-esque style is definitely a fun combination with the Hot Wheels license, but we can’t help wishing that this one had been a bit more refined! 7. It’s a shame that it hasn’t been tuned properly gameplay-wise the destructible environments and varied settings are excellent, but it does take a good deal of practice to get used to the unresponsive cars in the game. The problem is that the cars just aren’t very responsive, resulting in a game that feels pretty sluggish to play. There’s a reasonably robust multiplayer mode too. It does have some very Hot Wheels-esque track design though – with its crazy 3D, looping tracks. Despite the colourful cars – 30 are available in-game – the game is quite dark in terms of its aesthetics. It has a much more involved storyline than may be expected – a 14-mission Adventure Mode being the main attraction. Though it came several years before Battle Force 5, Hot Wheels: Velocity X is another game that applies a sci-fi sheen to the Hot Wheels license.
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