All I need now to make the nostalgia trip complete is a steering wheel with cigarette burn marks, and a vibrating bucket seat stinking of piss. It’s accessible but challenging, and a real reminder of my days as a kid, wandering the arcades. Heck, even if you don’t, give it a go and you might be surprised. Plus, this game is a steal at the low price it’s releasing for.Īt this point, I’ve put in over a dozen hours into Hotshot Racing and I’m more than confident in saying that you must play this game if you have any interest in racing games. Single-player was enough for me, but there is an online mode if you want to play with friends or strangers, which should give the game some longevity, providing it gets that initial player base. Everything is polished to a high sheen, from the responsive controls, the heavy drifts around corners, to the detailed tracks, all of which are busy with life and don’t fall victim to cardboard cutouts.įor your money, you’re getting a fair amount of content with over a dozen tracks, including their mirrored versions, and a handful of game modes. In fact, it’s doing everything we have seen before, but to the highest possible standards, and that’s what makes Hotshot Racing a must-play game in my book. It’s not doing anything we haven’t seen before. There’s nothing particularly outstanding about the gameplay or the game modes. But aren’t we all racing the clock? DEEP THOUGHTS. You’re competing with the aggressive A.I that has no problem sending you into a spin to get ahead, and you’re racing the clock, too. With this proper old-school mechanic, you’re running two races at the same time. On the normal difficulty, I had great fun chasing the other racers and rushing to the checkpoints. It’s not necessarily deep, nor required, but it’s nice to have something to be playing for once you’ve finished the GP races, which isn’t an easy task on the harder settings. There’s a roster of playable characters, too, and each of them come with four car classes which can be changed up to your liking, using the money you’ve collected. While you can’t spend this money on upgrading cars, you can use it to alter their appearance, if that’s your kind of thing. Progression is tracked through money that you earn from races. Again, this is great fun and adds a bit of tension to an otherwise jolly game.Īnd finally, there’s Time Trial mode, which is exactly what it sounds like. Go too slow for too long, and you’ll be blowing up out of the race. You have to keep your finger on the trigger and stay above a certain set speed, otherwise, your car will lose health over time. This mode is great fun, and my little boy and I have spent far too much time playing this mode together.Īnother mode has you racing until you explode. Cops and Robbers, where you’re either running from the law or working as one of them. You can play the classic GP events where you’ll race across four themed levels to try to win the trophy and get rewarded with a little character cutscene at the end, or you can play the mini-game modes. And yet I still enjoyed every second of it. Racing isn’t easy, mind you, and while the game definitely looks like the video-game embodiment of an approachable friend, it’s deviously tricky and at times frustrating. It’s like Ridge Racer and every SEGA arcade racing game have been melted down and rebuilt using the gooey goodness. It takes away the pretension and just dumps 1998 right onto your screen with polygonal graphics, a high-tempo electronic soundtrack, and a very cheery fella doing the in-race voice overs. Hotshot Racing is an ode to the golden era of arcade gaming. My favourites are rooted in my childhood, and Hotshot Racing has managed to bound right into that happy place and come out with everything I adore. As any regular readers/watchers will know, I’m a big fan of colourful, bright, and friendly games.
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