HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ 2 - Turbocharged Reviews

Super fun and challenging, surprised this was made for kids.

Fast paced races and cars that all have a unique feel to drive. Specifically the variance in driving styles pushes you to learn many different lines and drift timings. SUPER REPLAYABLE.

Undisclosed Easy Anti Cheat. Undisclosed Epic Services. Some of the worse rubber-banding I have ever seen in a racing game. Only took one race to see just how bad the rubber-banding is. Stay clear.

I picked up the original HWU game on the Epic store when it was free a few months ago. It ended up becoming one of my favourite games in a long time. Used to play racing games back in the day but always avoided them as an adult. This game is so much fun to play...accessible with a plenty of room for skill and bettering yourself as you progress. By the time you've put a few days in you'll be so confident with the driving it begins to feel like a new experience again as you fly around the track with confidence and high speed. The original was pretty perfect in it's delivery...the sequel manages to create pretty much the same vibes. Biggest downer is the modernisation of throwing in a story with characters using cut scenes to explain HWU2's purpose. I wasn't needing this and I doubt many others were. It stinks of conformity and I don't like it. Especially when it's the usual idiots with pink hair, immature attitudes, a serious lack of style or individuality OR originality. Just more of that Borderlands-like approach to entertainment...absolutely clueless and just makes you want to skip every single second of it. Bluhhh.... Driving is tight. The added "gimmicks" seem to work well. You've now got a jump move on Y and you can bash left and right with X and B, kinda like kicking in Road Rash. All of these moves use up boost for some reason. I don't think they should as you'd use them more often but maybe in time the mechanic will show it's relevance as it stands...it may add to the tension of the races. But I was never a fan of the "gimmicks" in the original game...bloody spider webs!! Will update when completed. Very happy so far.... 7.5/10

Best arcade racer to come out in YEARS. Absolutely gorgeous graphics. Tons of nostalgia.

The first game is more fun. The addition of a jump button has made the tracks much more annoying to play. I prefer to focus on driving than worrying about gimmicks that require me to jump over them.

Keeps changing my input to keyboard and mouse mid fucking race and I have to close the game to get it to reset to my controller. I can't even play the fucking tutorial race.

Don't buy even when on sale. First of all, the easy AI is way too easy and medium is way too hard. Second, the Legendary Edition comes with a lot of cars but once you actually look through them all there is not much to choose from. If your looking to throw $50 out the window this is great, maybe buy if its $5 or less.

Similar to the first game, it scratches that racing itch, the graphics look clean, the sound design is good, but I am experiencing the same issue many others state - if you so much as touch the keyboard, the mouse, the volume control on your headset - anything that signals to the game you are playing on PC and the whole game has a stronk - not even task manager get's me around this. I am writing this after having to do a hard shut down. All this aside, I am enjoying the game immensely otherwise for the racing aspect and the sound design, and I do recommend it (on sale - purchased with all DLC for about 14$)

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