![]() As an example, you can simply change a car with weak stats to a contender by modifying all the parts that it is weak in. Here, the expectation is that you'll use all the parts in transforming from state to state, so the question is how to apply your sprockets to upgrade parts that you really want jacked up. It's not a matter of earning the actual parts, as in some racing games. Basically, you cycle through the parts available to put on the car, and choose the parts you want upgraded. As you win, you'll earn more sprockets, but it's safe to say that the cars available at first can be modified to race exactly the same with the sprockets you have on hand. First sign that this is aimed at a younger set seems to be that you're given a set of sprockets that when added to your vehicle will greatly change things like handling, acceleration and speed. You enter a Championship with one of the vehicles and choose some custom options. The racing motto for Hot Wheels Extreme Racing is, 'RACE with what's under the hood, but WIN with what's strapped on top!' This translates to a style of racing gameplay we all know well by now. Which is great for the commercial, but what happens when you try to sit and play for an hour or so? That's a lot of 30-second spots, man. It's just bouncy, pointless nonsense, the kind of tunes you'd expect in a 30-second commercial. The music seriously lacks staying power, and you'll be dialing it down after the second or third track, guaranteed. So, catchy visuals or not, we're given little to sink our eyes into. There are 12 single-player and 12 multiplayer tracks, but the difference is mostly cosmetic. They fall short on size, and there's a bit of deceptive advertising in the claim of 24 tracks. But really, with a solid engine and some cooler vehicles, these would have been nice tracks to race on. ![]() They're way more interesting than the cars, and you'll have lots of opportunities to check out the track when you're skidding and bouncing all over it. The Hot Wheels license would suggest fast cars in a small package, and I wanted to see crazy, cool interesting vehicles. This should be like Gran Turismo meets Motor Toon meets R/C Revenge, but it comes off like some generic, stiff racing game. ![]() The company that modeled about every vehicle known to man. And, the different choices for what vehicle you'll drive are okay, but I don't quite get the similarity between all the cars. The game slows to a crawl while this happens, but it's still cool. It's a cool effect to watch the cars grow wings and take off. The most redeeming thing for Hot Wheels fans are neat looking vehicles driving, flying and boating, not to mention transforming between states. Nothing about Hot Wheels Extreme Racing lives up to what I imagined when I played with these things. You never did anything to deserve this kind of treatment, did you? Sure, you look good, and it's neat to see you transforming, but let's face it: Playing with Hot Wheels has always been about imagined driving. Sometimes they produce graphics on some of the cars that makes me wish there was a Diecast car on the video game.Oh, my poor Hot Wheels. The only downside that I could think of is some of the cars like 4x4 (Hummer) were never toy made Yea, It's a pet peeve for me when it comes down to Hot Wheels Video Games. Just imagine if they had released this game on the then-new Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2. You just know that Hot Wheels Brand did something right when as simple a video game developer logo becomes worth watching again and again. The Levels, Sound FX, Cheat Codes, Innovation (Transfrom from Car to Monster Truck, Boat to Jet, etc, at portal, Different tracks for Multiplayer), Introduction, Soundtrack (Even though I'm a no music gamer, I do sometimes listen to the soundtrack on my daily morning half hour walk via YouTube) are all awesome. ![]() Not only is it the best Hot Wheels game ever, it's the best Video Game ever made in my opinion. It was common for me to not care for vidoe game cases when I was little. Plus I want to have the case and booklet. The reason why I bought another is in case my original disc gets starched up (After 19 years, I still don't understand how its still working) so its good to have a backup. The one you're looking at is a duplicate. I remember playing this game as a 5 year older when it was new. 19 years ago, Hot Wheels Extreme Racing was released for the first PlayStation.
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