HOT WHEELS Infinite Rush Reviews
Having an open world sounds like a stroke of genius for a Hot Wheels game, and while I admit that there’s loads to see and do in Hot Wheels Infinite Rush, I don’t think its progression system, car collection, or editor mode are quite as enjoyable as what the Hot Wheels Unleashed games had to offer. Those games worked well because they embraced the fact that you were controlling a tiny miniature in the real world, making otherwise mundane environments feel absolutely enormous. By comparison, the open islands in Infinite Rush are packed with content and certainly cute to look at, but they lack that sense of novelty and scale.
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is the ultimate Forza Horizon for kids. With a generous dose of content, incredibly fun gameplay, and fantastic elements from the IP, Milestone has delivered a great racing game!
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush builds on what came before with interesting open-world locations, awesome cars, and core gameplay that still feels tight and fast.
"Hot Wheels Infinite Rush" is a good, fun racer – especially when competing against computer-controlled drivers in the main missions. The wild chases through loops, jumps, and banked curves are particularly enjoyable, and cleverly using boost boards and other bonus areas evokes a touch of "Mario Kart."
Review in German | Read full review
Hot Wheels™ Infinite Rush takes the popular car toys in a new direction with an open-world playground. Filled with vehicles to unlock, plenty of ways to customize your rides, and improvements throughout, it feels like a refreshing change for the series. While the number of islands is limiting and some missions feel repetitive, there’s plenty here to keep drivers clawing back.
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is still a bit like many other Milestone games: the overall experience feels slightly clinical and risk-free. This time it doesn’t bother me quite as much however, as the open world structure is fun to mess around in and the difficulty is finally well-balanced. There is more than enough to do and collect to keep everyone busy, and thanks to its four-player local multiplayer, it even poses a serious challenge to Mario Kart in parties.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is a flavorless open world with repetitive events and an uninspired, atmosphere-less world to explore. While the racing, online, and track editors all remain, there isn’t much here that feels creative and exciting, and the experience just feels hollow as a result.
HOT WHEELS Infinite Rush is a competent, well-crafted racer for all ages that tries to pivot the franchise in a new direction, but its ambitious open-world is wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle compared to its contemporaries. I far prefer the focused, menu-driven progression of earlier titles. By stretching itself thin to copy today’s open-world trends, Infinite Rush loses the spark of its predecessors by delivering an experience that offers surprisingly finite enjoyment.