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Publisher: Electronic Arts
Category: Racing
Platform: PS1, N64
ESRB Rating: Everyone Release Date: September 1999
Overall Rating:
2 Stars out of 4
Review by Tom Allen
2 Stars out of 4
(Review of PS1 version)
Published by Electronic Arts, available for PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Whether you're
playing the PlayStation version or the Nintendo 64 version, Hot Wheels Turbo Racing
feels exactly the same. Both versions offer 40 cars, each of which feels very different.
Some cars control with decent accuracy, while others control so poorly (especially in
landing capabilities) that we wonder why they are even including in the game. If you
find us a person who actually CHOOSES to use a poor racer, I'll find you a person who
likes to stick needles in his eyeballs and other balls.
Somehow I can't picture skilled racers playing with these kinds of cars "just for the
challenge," so I think it's a big mistake to make them available. A casual player might
pick a poor car and think it is respresentative of the game's quality.
Electronic Arts scored big points with its other racer, Beetle Adventure, and I think a key
factor in its success was that nothing prevented you from getting to the core enjoyment
of the game. Hot Wheels could learn a lesson or two from Beetle.
On the plus side, barrel rolls and other stunts are easy to perform in mid-air, and the toy
car theme means no annoying crashes. After all, you can't really trash a toy car.
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