Off-Road vehicles can ride over rough terrain like grass and dirt without hassle, but they aren’t going to be the best models to take to tight time trials.

The additional bulk of Heavy Duty vehicles makes them better to battle with, but they quickly straighten out of low-angle drifts when they lose too much momentum. Class WarĪs you’d probably expect, these new classes – Rocket, Balanced, Swift, Drifter, Off-Road, and Heavy Duty – each carry certain advantages and disadvantages.

However, this time around it also comes from the distinctly different feel of the cars in each of the six different classes. This depth comes via the particularly nuanced layer of in-air controls that let you adjust direction and boost through the sky like a die-cast cruise missile, which has now been augmented with double-jump and lateral dash abilities. Like all its truly great high-speed peers, Hot Wheels Unleashed 2’s arcade-typical brake-to-drift handling is easy to pick up but tricky to totally master. More crucially, it still feels good, too. Of course, returning players will know Hot Wheels Unleashed already looked this good. The stamped text beneath each chassis featuring the model name and production year.īetter still, the way they carry their imperfections makes them look even more credible, from the child-sized fingerprints that reveal themselves on certain surfaces under the right light, to the scratches and gouges they get from both the gladiatorial racing and going end over end on gravel. The difference in finishes between a glossy hard plastic tyre and a rubber Real Riders wheel. The subtle accumulations of extra paint on tapered spoilers. The faint knit lines left on injection-moulded parts. The texture differences between plastic and metal.

Rotating them around in the menus and photo mode they look like genuine toys placed under a microscope seriously, it really cannot be stressed enough just how unflinchingly faithful Milestone’s models are to actual Hot Wheels miniatures. The car models are still absolutely amazing renditions of real-life Hot Wheels, which appear essentially photorealistic on-screen. It really cannot be stressed enough just how unflinchingly faithful Milestone's models are to actual Hot Wheels miniatures.

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