PlayStation 5 User Reviews

The game is actually quite fun, with simple and easy-to-learn gameplay. However, the biggest problem is the damn lootboxes — at certain points in the campaign, you need specific types of cars that are hard to obtain. Not to mention the DLCs.

Cuando abri el juego por primera vez, era con la esperanza de que fuera un buen juego. ¿Y que recibo? El peor juego de carreras de la historia.

oh God this game is insulting Budget is no where to be found the controls are abysmal movement does what that you dont want to do physics are so broken and bouncy the music does not fit its not fun at all and create mode is awful if you quit your track with no laps the finish feature is not there shows how broken it is any more the cars barely have any difference And if you fall of or get stuck on something for 2 seconds there is no longer coming back in the race even on easy mode your going to lose this game is more than unbearable beings with a Brain made this

Well the game is great but i believe that if you bye the CD and you download and you have the CD and Your playing and you see that you have other maps on the game but you got to go play them other map you have to pay for them i really don't think that is right. because when you bye a game on CD everything should be free because look at how much you have to pay for game and if Xbox is making all kinds of product and making a lot money why are they charging more money for these games and i have hear that Xbox cant be hacked thats a lie because it has been done

I hope Mattel understands that when they attach a full priced game filled with pay to play content what that does to their reputation. I used to love Hot Wheels toys. Now I kinda hate the brand. Good job Hot Wheels, I now buy other toys for my kids and for my friends kids. Thanks for **** the joy out of your product for a quick buck.

تنوع السيارات و اختلاف مواصفاتها الفنية و تقديم الحلبات المتنوعة كان شيئ فاق توقعاتي , اسلوب الاستشعار بالحجم الواقعي للاعب امام العالم اللي يلعب فيه يعطي شعور بالدهشه و الاستمتاع بمناظر السباق مهما كررته تمنيت ان لا يكون طور القصة محصور على جمع النقاط بهذا الشكل و الذي يعيق المضي بسلاسه فيها

Man got to say it i played a bunch of hot wheels games and this deserve the cake of the best hot wheels game ever made i have this game for 2 years an i am still not bored because the amount of content and the controls are incredible, multiplayer is well balenced. Even tho the cars are not balenced enogh there are enough good cars tô play and have fun. And the best part the way how creative youcan be with the editor(of cars and tracks) this game is super underated and deseve more love

Incredibly repetitive, a billion useless cars, ugly main story map. This game has good graphics but horrible physics. Controlling the cars is not fun. I don't want realistic physics one second and jumping through a loop the next. Make it flow and fast. Wasted 20 dollars. Might as well pack up my old velocity for ps2. That game was fun. This is a cash grab mess

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.

Well it's not really a bad game but personally I'm disappointed to say the least. The game plays fine, the cars look great and collecting cars is satisfying, but there's so much paid content, the game literally feels unfinished. Some of the mechanics don't work well either, tilting the car mid-air, or drifting, don't feel good. There isn't enough content, every race feels the same, even the boss races are just normal races but longer. As for the stages, I really like how they look, and the stage builder is a nice addition. Final Rating: "Weak" ~ 4/10.

If you are into arcade Racer this is a must have for you. Graphics and Handling is nearly perfect, good selection of cars and tracks. There is also a track editor which is very in-depth. There is also a Split Screen play option, which is rare these days. So why isn't it a 10/10? The difficulty on the standard settings is to easy, if you bump up the difficulty it becomes very hard, sadly there is no middle ground. Also the soundtrack cycles through the same four songs every time, so they get annoying quickly. Overall it's a fun game with minor flaws.

Basic AI, always in your butt. Annoying level design with areas where its difficult to see directions. Cars with no weight so the tiniest little jump makes you fly out the map and lose the game (if not a car drives into you). However, this could have potential

Awesome presentation, pretty good arcade racing mechanics, a banger ass sound track, and a toy box full of cars makes the COMPLETE EDITION a heck of a fun title. Do NOT buy just the base game!

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. 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.

Hot Wheels is an awesome race game. Very fun and not at all boring. People complaining about difficulty are just too lazy to acctually learn how to play the game. Buy it and you'll have at least 60 hours of fun. Level design is incredible.

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 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.

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.

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

Love the idea, the game is good looking driving is **** 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 **** 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.

If you want an incredibly fun arcade racer, look no further. Debated this vs the FH Hot Wheels expansion and caught this on sale with the 1st 2 DLC passes for less than $30, awesome choice! The FH Hot Wheels expansion looks much like the expansion on FH3, which I already have and enjoy. Hot Wheels Unleashed is different and fun. Hard to explain how much fun it is without trying it. They made excellent use of simple concepts.

Car models and tracks look great. However, whole experience was ruined as it felt like more than half of the content is locked under dlc or add-on. 5 min into the game I was already bombarded by "buy this" and "buy that" pop-ups. I wish I could refund the whole game...

Overall a fun experience !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me start by saying buy this game if you love to have fun For years i haven't found a single racing game that was just for fun fortuntley i found it I have it on PS5 the amount of detail is insane when it comes to the tracks and the crash mechanism is very realistic I haven't heard about Milestone games before bit i would totally look into future games they are very good at what they do Hope you enjoyed thiscreview

Such an awesome game it is really recommended for all types of gamers and even not gamers

not bad...........................................................................

Context: I played Hot Wheels Unleashed on a Playstation 5. I have experience playing arcade racers games such as Mario Kart 8, Trackmania Turbo, Pac-Man World Rally and Little Big Planet Karting. I have also played Hot Wheels Ultimate Racing for the Playstation Portable (PSP) and have watched the TV show Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers as kid so this review is tainted with nostalgia. To see the credits roll, it took me roughly 80 hours to platinum the game (100%). Hot Wheels Unleashed is the pinnacle of the Hot Wheels universe. Hot Wheels Unleashed offers a plethora of vehicles, cars, vans, trucks, buses and everything in-between including a rubber duck, all of which can be visually customized to your liking. Milestone's choice of presenting the cars and world at toy scale delivers the proper atmosphere, with circuits artistically braided through richly detailed, life-sized surroundings and filled with vehicles jumping out of a dinosaur's mouth. The collection tends toward newer models or new adaptations of older models however, there is no shortage of classics. You might have guessed it, I mainly used the RD-02 and Deora cars from Acceleracers to relive my childhood. The single player experience, known as Rumble City, is the main offering of Hot Wheels Unleashed. Rumble City is populated with Races, varying from 1vs1 to Boss Events, where tracks includes additional obstacles, and Time Trials, aiming to achieve a certain lap time where it's only you and your car on the track. These events reward you with (1) coins to buy loot boxes to unlock new vehicles, (2) gears to upgrade your vehicles, (3) basement and/or profile customizations to showcase your style and (4) legendary vehicles that cannot be unlocked from loot boxes. There really is a lot to unlock in Hot Wheels Unleashed. I had only a third of the available vehicles by the time I completed Rumble City but that could be thanks to my luck with loot boxes. This is the major flaw with Hot Wheels Unleashed. The content is there and it is replayable however, the grind necessary to get the currency needed to buy loot boxes, which only have a chance of containing the vehicle you want, is ridiculous. Excluding the rewards given from Rumble City events, as you can only collect those once, you earn at most 50 coins per race, that is finishing first place in a 12 player race, and you need 500 coins to buy a loot box. With over 100 vehicles, the odds are not in your favour. Individual vehicles can only be purchased from a selection of five random models that rotates every four hours of play. That is in-game time, not real life time. On top of unlocking vehicles, the only way to upgrade vehicles is by using gears which can only be obtained from dismantling your collection. The rarity of the vehicle you want to upgrade, determines how many gears said upgrade requires but, once again, you get little to no gears or coins, from dismantling vehicles in your collection. Jumping back to what Hot Wheels Unleashed excels at, Milestone's ability to make the cars look so real is a big part of what makes playing Hot Wheels Unleashed so much fun. Hot Wheels Unleashed vehicles have excellent handling. The brake-to-drift mechanic, found in almost every arcade racer, is basic and simple to pick up, but the air controls have some nuance. Boost accumulates quickly, yet the greater your car's core stats are, the less boost you'll have available. Hot Wheels Unleashed comes with 40 tracks out of the box but the game offers an involved custom track builder that allows you to create and share your own tracks. Let your imagination roam free. Tracks can be shortened, lengthened, slanted, twisted, curved, flipped, different terraforms or boost pads, the world is your oyster. In the end, Hot Wheels Unleashed is an unexpected and amazing arcade racer that is fun, fast, and even photorealistic. This miniature racer exceeds all expectations with incredible attention to detail, outstanding circuit design, and an approachable handling style that nonetheless rewards high talent. For a completionist, this game is a grind and will take a lot of patience. Luckily, the recently added Battle Pass offers players with a lot of coins and gears as rewards for completing challenges, thus reducing the grind. For a casual player looking for an arcade racer, I actually would not recommend this game. I believe Hot Wheels Unleashed caters to a niche audience and the casual audience is looking more for a Mario Kart, a Sonic Racing or a ModNation Racers, an itch that Hot Wheels Unleashed cannot scratch. Hot Wheels Unleash is easy to play and hard to master, and while some tracks offer obstacles, it does not compare with the constant sense of action that arcade racers with items offer.

"Hot Wheels Unleashed" left a very positive impression on us. From the first second, the game gives the impression that the developers from Milestone have put a lot of love and heart into the game. The presentation of the cars and tracks are great and the gameplay ideas are also interesting. Unfortunately, the editors and also the lootboxes are not well solved. If you like to drive the small cars, you should definitely check out "Hot Wheels Unleashed".

This is the real arcade racing game. Beautiful graphics, amazing vibe, awesome physics. I love it!

The game is just dull due to simplistic gameplay and nothing much happening on the screen. Don't get me wrong, artistically it is different to most other modern racing games but it's equally as boring - very few modern racing games are worth their time. If you are looking for a racing game to buy in 2021, Cruis'n Blast is definitely the one to go for. Without including Kart Racers, Wreckfest was previously the best racing game of the last decade and has now been usurped by Cruis'n.

Si tendria 13 años seria el juego que a dia de hoy me acordaria de el... PD: tengo 36

Quite a fun arcade racer, very action packed and the twists and turns of the track will keep you on your toes throughout. The game can be pretty challgeng, but that just provides some great incentive to master the drifting and boosting mechanics to take on random strangers online. Only drawback is the fact that there are only a few themes, and that the only new content that will be added to the game is through 30 dollar expansions, which is quite steep for a 50 dollar base game. Would've appreciated some free content additions throughout the life of the game, but as it stands, this a great, refreshing arcade racer, that is everything 8 year old me watching Acceleracers could have ever dreamed of. Definitely check this one out if you're a fan of Hot Wheels, or just arcade racers!

This game is so much fun. It's the best arcade racer in the world at this time IMO. The game is like a spiritual successor to F-ZERO with it's speed, track designs and boost mechanics, but it has a physics-based engine that's unique and fresh. You can flip your car, or fly off the track. and this opens up huge depth for cutting shortcuts. The track designs are some of the best - possibly the very best - track design I've played. The drift mechanics feel excellent and have a lot of depth. The AI is very engaging and fair (and not too difficult, as one other user has written). The music is great. And the cars... oh the cars, they are just awesome. It's so fun to collect and customise all the Hot Wheels. Oh and the graphics... my goodness the graphics are just delectable. It's a real shame that some idiots have rated this game zero and dragged the user score down for no good reason, because the game is absolutely amazing and no one should hesitate to pick it up.

Hot wheels unleashed great for the creative Hot wheels unleashed is an arcade racing game with an equal amount of good as bad… firs the good.. the amount of customization and attention to detail in this game is insane.. as you play youll earn coin and blind boxes, giving you random hot wheels cars all with their own stas and are upgradable with different rarities, and yes I did pull legendaries… you can also earn these cars in the story mode.. and each of these cars you can customize all th way down to the wheel.. really making this feel lik your toybox wich brings me to the track creator.. im not one to care about these type of things anymore.. but the early teen in me loves the fact you can build a track around your room like the good ole days, having sleepovers with your friends.. coming up with the most ridiculous jump and loops possible.. and yu can play these tracks locally as well as online, though I don’t see the option to download other created tracks which is a bummer, you can however download other players customized cars.. up to 100… when it comes to racing, hot wheels unleashed is best locally or online.. its fast and fun drifting around corners trying to outdo everyone around you.. its hwen you play solo that hot wheels unleashes problems start to show… theres an adventure mode here where youre going through races and time trials basically back and forth, clearing these hllenges to unlock new track bulding items, earn coins, and cars.. and imemdietly I relized, oh no.. theres rubber banding.. unfortuntaly there is no sweet spot difficulty to make racing through this game solo thrilling… easy is essentially free roam mode cause the AI cant keep up, and the rubber banding in medium and hard ruins races.. turning this basically into nothing but time trials essentially.. one wrong move and youre in last place.. that’s how bad the rubber banding is… might as well restart.. much like again.. a time trial.. when I sit down to race.. iwant to race.. don’t pretend theres added difficulty by making the ai slingshot to catch up with me… jst make the ai better the harder it gets.. so unfortunately playing solo turned this into a map cleaner more than anything else.. made worse by how uncreative the tracks are.. The game focused so heavily on detail they forgot to focus on zany fun… sure there are obstacles thrown in there like a spider that shoots a web,but no childlike imagination.. making forts out of pillows, throwing bouncy balls here and there, making me drive over a bowl of water.. a cat swiping at you while you drive around… an insanine incline down a flight of stairs to fly across the room… nothing really to remind me im dirving a hotwheels car.. other than the ocassional vent or couch to drive across, but its so in the background hat I stopped paying attention.. really making getting through the campaign a drag at times, as it is just recycled the same 8 tracks over and over and over… That being said if you plan to race online or locally with friends.. hot wheels unleashed has potential to be a staple in your collection.. creating tracks to challenge eachother, designing a staple hotwheel.. This is a must have for racing fans.. I give Hot wheels unleashed a 7.5/10

sometimes fun, mostly frustrating randomly difficulty spikes, even on easy, unrealistic time trials, random wonky physics, that only one the player experience and not the ai. the graphics are great, along with the roster but you are better off just turning the music off. very disappointing game overall

bought it on my ps5 for my son, thinking i could download the ps4 version on his ps4 ( he plays with my account, same account which bought the game). But no. I have to pay double. How lame is that.

Lovely game for everyone. A bit too difficult but after adjusting difficulty it is fun

This game is very fun to play. The driving mechanics are great for an arcade racer. The tracks are well thought out. There are only 60 cars to choose on launch, despite there being a trophy to open 100 car boxes. Nonetheless, the car selection is neat and some of them are hilarious. There are Hot Wheels original vehicles, licensed vehicles, and even iconic pop culture cars such as K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider and Back to the Future DeLorean. The visuals are stunning. The attention to detail on the cars are jaw-dropping. I can't think of single detail missing in this game that you would expect on Hot Wheels diecast cars. The cars even have the "Made in" text on the bottom of the car. The customization options in this game are great. You can change the color of cars and the wheels. While you can change the color of the rims, it is disappointing that you can't change the rim design. You can customize your own livery on cars with so many cool layers. The track builder in this game is biblical. It is so complex and advanced. This gives the game tons of replay value. The online multiplayer is fun and you can have up to 12 players in a race. There is even offline split screen multiplayer. It is incredibly rare for a game to include singleplayer, multiplayer, and offline split screen all in one package. And the developers are only asking $50 for this game that is rich in content and quality. That is $10 or $20 cheaper than what your average AAA game would normally cost. I definitely recommend this game.

Great arcade racer! Fun for all ages and not too difficult for the kids. Please ignore 'Otherside' down below, clearly a troll or just really, really bad at games!

Insanely difficult. Even on easy. Extremely irritating AI. Infuriating even. Unplayable. Only 60 some cars to collect? Really? And blind boxes? The blind boxes aren't even that bad. You can only buy them with in game currency, so it's whatever. My kids don't care what car they get, they just like opening them. I dont really care about what cars I can unlock either, since no matter what, the AI will always destroy you.

This game is a spectacular example of how to create an arcade racer. Mechanics are smooth but can be challenging. Addictive and fun to play I will be putting many hours into this game. Cars are customizable and the degree of detail is astounding. Thought has been put into every crevice of this game....

Unfortuantely, there's no 21:9 Ultrawide aspect ratio support on PC. This would have been amazing

Beautiful and fun game, the Hotwheels brand was given to the right people, I really can't imagine a Hotwheels game beign better than this, huge props to Milestone

Hot Wheels Unleashed is a masterpiece. It's a amazing arcade racing game that has a lot of customization options and awesome gameplay. Milestone had once again made another masterpiece.

Visuals are stunning, already expected since it was played on a PS5. 10/10. No bugs, plays flawlessly. Devs achieved exactly what they aimed for

This game is super-fun!! I was honestly a little worried going in that it would just be another boring modern racing game that focuses on realism over actual enjoyment, but Milestone miraculously managed to avert that by making one of the most vibrant and exciting games in its class. The cars are diverse, the physics are dope and the tracks are genuinely inspired. HIGHLY recommended whether you’re into the racing genre or not.