Hot Wheels Unleashed Reviews

Hot Wheels Unleashed is ranked in the 60th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
10 / 10
Sep 27, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed is how you make a toys-to-life video game. Milestone have taken some of the finest collectables and made them photo-realistic, unleashing them on racetracks that will blow your mind with the level of detail and craziness in equal measure. Exemplifying the “kart racer” genre, it is the natural progression of why we fall in love with this type of racing game over and over. This is a love letter to both Hot Wheels and arcade racing fans.

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10 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed brings the ultimate car collection to the current generation. Gamers young and old will no doubt have an insane amount of fun playing through each environment with plenty of nostalgia at the ready! Hot Wheels Unleashed gets the coveted Thumb Culture Platinum Award

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9.7 / 10.0
Jan 5, 2021

'Hot Wheels Unleashed' handles like a dream for toy cars.

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9.5 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

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 what fans want – tons of cool cars, wild tracks, and collectable, customizable fun. Our highest recommendation.

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9.5 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

The overall feeling of Hot Wheels Unleashed is that it is a huge win for nostalgia fans and racing fans alike. From the graphical detail of the world to the tracks to the cars everything is spot on with how you remember these cars looking. The control you have while racing puts Hot Wheels Unleashed right up there with some of the other AAA racing titles. This title will be launching on September 30, 2021, to PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC for USD 49.

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9.5 / 10.0
Oct 2, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed is a surprisingly good racing game that brings your childhood imagination to life while offering you endless creative options for customising your toy racers and designing your own tracks. No matter your age there is tons to love here!

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IGN
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9 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

Carefully detailed, highly customisable, and buoyantly uncynical, Hot Wheels Unleashed is a surprising and brilliant arcade racer.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

Not only a blast of die-cast nostalgia, but a brilliant arcade racer to boot with superb customisation options.

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90 / 100
Sep 27, 2021

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.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed is way better than I could have ever imagined, and I’m absolutely addicted to it. Are there better racing games that came out or are due to come out this year? Absolutely. But I doubt any of them will surprise me as much as this game did.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed perfectly combines a challenging and well-structured racing game with the colorful and eye-catching visuals of the already consolidated toy universe. Collecting and customizing the legendary miniatures, as well as creating our own circuits without worrying about buying infinite expansions or losing parts, is a delight for anyone who has always wanted to put their creativity to work. The flaws exist, but they don't stop Unleashed from being an excellent title.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed is a fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable arcade racer that brings my childhood imagination to the big screen in thrilling fashion. The visuals are fantastic, there’s plenty of modes and some pretty solid progression elements that kept me coming back for more.

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4.5 / 5.0
Sep 27, 2021

The simple, pick-up-and-play racing action keeps things tame so anyone can pick one of the several rides and zoom down the masterfully crafted tracks without any fuss and little learning curve. With only a few misgivings to work on as of this review, Hot Wheels Unleashed has first place already in the bag, and I’m eager to see it continue succeeding down the line.

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4.5 / 5.0
Oct 15, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed is not only one of the best games of the year, but one of the best racing games of all time.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 30, 2021

Now, you can’t just pick any car and hope that everything will be evenly matched. The cars all have their own stats that you have to be mindful of.

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Oct 25, 2021

Choose your vehicle, assemble your track and get ready for ultimate speeds with Hot Wheels Unleashed. Does this game race for victory or should it be left at the starting line? Find out in this Rapid Review.

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Feb 9, 2023

For this review, we are looking at the added features for the Game of the Year version of Hot Wheels Unleashed. You can read our review of the base game here: https://www.rapidreviewsuk.com/hot-wheels-unleashed-review/

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9 / 10.0
Oct 5, 2021

It’s hard to dislike almost any part of this joyful little title. With boundless ways to play, build and paint, this is sure to be one title that remains in my library for a very long time.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2021

‎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 Milestone makes the franchise shine that is synonymous with a market so loved by all collectors.‎

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85 / 100
Sep 28, 2021

Hot Wheels Unleashed brings everything you could hope for: a digital version of one of the most legendary slot-car franchises of all time, with simple but very pleasant and responsive gameplay, a good level of challenge, and an audio-visual elaboration that is good for what it proposes.

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