Hot Wheels Unleashed

 PlayStation 5
User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 74 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 74
  3. Negative: 14 out of 74
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  1. Beast979
    Aug 5, 2022
    7
    Love the idea, the game is good looking driving is good.....my biggest problem is the change in difficulty between easy and normal. It is a huge spike where easy to too easy and normal is really pretty darn challenging. you can drive really well and the game seems to rubber band cars to you, making it very hard to get any kind of lead...and they constantly turbo past you after rubberLove the idea, the game is good looking driving is good.....my biggest problem is the change in difficulty between easy and normal. It is a huge spike where easy to too easy and normal is really pretty darn challenging. you can drive really well and the game seems to rubber band cars to you, making it very hard to get any kind of lead...and they constantly turbo past you after rubber banding. The other downside to this, is that to be competitive on normal, you have to use the fastest, overall best handling car you have in order to compete, which limits what cars you can use to race with if you want to be at all competitive in the race. It's unfortunate since there are a lot of cars in game.

    It's a fun game, but the difficulty between easy and normal should be addressed.    … Expand
  2. Cz3rw0ny
    Jun 14, 2023
    7
    Good graphics, fun gameplay and pretty good controls. Some trials and races are just annoying and difficult to the extend of not being fun anymore. Otherwise its a pretty decent game.
  3. BallzyDan
    Aug 6, 2022
    6
    decent fun factor here, but this developer has earned a boycott. Loot boxes and microtransactions every where, is what makes this atrocious. This is for kids?? The tracks can be fun and the track editor is cool. Ultimately the game is too hard, even on easy, as time trials have the same time requirement, no matter what difficulty
  4. ZzjimbozZ
    Feb 20, 2022
    7
    Overall a fun experience !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5. anton1453x
    Oct 16, 2022
    6
    A good multiplayer and a terrible single player experience end up being a decent game for me. If you only want to play multiplayer it's pretty good! The downside of playing it 2022 is the seasons and challenges are not existing anymore. That's fine, the multiplayer experience is still good! The single player experience however is straight up being and repetitive.
  6. BrianDavid94
    Oct 21, 2022
    5
    Quick background on me the reviewer, I tend to like single player games that is heavy on narrative the most. I also play a lot of racing games and use to play multiplayer games in my high school days but now that it's hard for me and my friends to find a good time to link up so now it’s rarer for me to get into a multiplayer game. Up to try any genre of games and sometimes I find somethingQuick background on me the reviewer, I tend to like single player games that is heavy on narrative the most. I also play a lot of racing games and use to play multiplayer games in my high school days but now that it's hard for me and my friends to find a good time to link up so now it’s rarer for me to get into a multiplayer game. Up to try any genre of games and sometimes I find something new that I didn't think I'd like. I own a PC (built by me), Xbox One X, Xbox Series X, PS3, PS4, PS5, and a Switch. I prefer Playstation due to their focus on narrative games. For scoring, I’ll be using the Gameinformer review scale and of course influenced by my personal opinions.

    (5) Flawed. It may be obvious that the game has lots of potential, but it’s most engaging features could be undeniably flawed or not integrated into the experience.

    An arcade racer that does a lot of great things with one major flaw. The best thing about this game is the art in which all the cars actually look like real hot wheels. It has the real toy look that I found really cool. There are also a lot of different vehicles to choose from and a good variety of tracks with the traditional hot wheeel track add ons. I like how the hot wheels world is all in the basement of the house too which you can customize and see those customizations you made when you continue with the career mode. The major flaw that this game does though is how hard this game is and changing the difficulty does not help you. It's fine for me, although I feel like I have to be perfect in order to win, but for the kids that this game is advertising are struggling to get a podium finish even on easy. My best guess is that it's because the AI don't follow the same physics as you and are set to rubberband mode so they are always able to catch up and feels like they always have boast to repass you ass soon as you pass them. I hope that they'll update this game but with it being a year old now they should have already done it.    … Expand
  7. tonyozhelev
    Nov 15, 2022
    6
    It's a decent game but for me it is bare-bones. There is an option for metric/imperial units which I didn't notice to affect anything which for me says the ge is unfinished. All in all gameplay is super basic. The tracks are fine and the cars are nice. There are some major issues though. The shop uses in game time. You have to spend 1.5 hours IN THE GAME for cars to rotate. MultiplayerIt's a decent game but for me it is bare-bones. There is an option for metric/imperial units which I didn't notice to affect anything which for me says the ge is unfinished. All in all gameplay is super basic. The tracks are fine and the cars are nice. There are some major issues though. The shop uses in game time. You have to spend 1.5 hours IN THE GAME for cars to rotate. Multiplayer uses track voting, but you can't downvote bad user tracks and there are some real monstrosities out there. There are only two modes of racing - race and time trial. Perhaps there could have been some different ones. Anyways I picked the game for free on PS plus and I had fun with it, but def wouldn't pay full price.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#61 Best PlayStation 5 Game of 2021
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#50 Most Discussed PlayStation 5 Game of 2021

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 41 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 41
  3. Negative: 0 out of 41
  1. IGN Adria
    Jan 20, 2022
    60
    Despite the phenomenal graphics and details, sim-specialized authors from Milestone stumbled a little bit while trying to make their trip to the arcade genre fun enough.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Jan 3, 2022
    75
    Hot Wheels Unleashed is perhaps the best stand-alone game to use the license by far. It nails the feeling of racing with tiny die-cast cars and melds it with a presentation that looks far better than what you'd expect for a licensed title. The race variety is lacking, given the presence of only two race types, but the track variety greatly makes up for that shortcoming. It may have flown under everyone's radar, but Unleashed is worth everyone's attention.
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  3. Games.cz
    Nov 30, 2021
    80
    This is a surprisingly well done, fun racing game, full of thrill and fast toy cars. It’s highly addictive, the car designs are adequately crazy and there’s a robust editor to satisfy your creativity.
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