{"id":19353,"date":"2019-09-11T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19353"},"modified":"2019-09-07T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:50:40","slug":"hot-wheels-infinite-loop-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/11\/hot-wheels-infinite-loop-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Wheels: Infinite Loop (Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hot Wheels toy cars have delighted kids for many a generation.\u00a0 Heck, even I played with them when I was little.\u00a0 I had a foldable Hot Wheels garage playset that I played with all the time.\u00a0 One of my brothers had a Hot Wheels track that had a volcano that the cars would race up on.\u00a0 We took the loop at the top out so the cars would shoot straight up to the living room ceiling!\u00a0 Heck, even recently I saw Hot Wheels Mario Kart cars and tracks.\u00a0 I was tempted to get them, but I didn\u2019t!\u00a0 But now there is a mobile racing game that captures the imagination of Hot Wheels cars and tracks with Hot Wheels: Infinite Loop.\u00a0 It\u2019s available free to play for most mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Apparently the game has a story.\u00a0 In the future, we have developed technologies where we can race life sized Hot Wheels cars, which leads me to believe that six-year-olds rule the future.\u00a0 In this time we also have the technology to make hologram roads that are like those bendable orange Hot Wheels tracks.\u00a0 So the game is like a cross between a street racer with fanciful loops and twists every now and then.\u00a0 So yeah it\u2019s pretty great.<\/p>\n

Play control is also fantastic and tailor made for mobile devices.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to worry about holding down the gas all the time, as you\u2019re constantly moving forward.\u00a0 At the start of the race you can hold down the accelerator to get a speed boost, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 To steer, just press the large arrows on the left and right sides of the screen.\u00a0 When you come to a turn, hold down the small drift button above the left arrow to do a power slide, and release it at the right time for another speed boost.\u00a0 As you drive, a meter will fill up, and when it\u2019s full, press the button above the right arrow for a nitro boost.\u00a0 What\u2019s neat is that while the meter goes down, you can press the button again at the right time to get even more of a speed boost!\u00a0 Cool idea!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, while the gameplay, controls, and graphics are console quality, it\u2019s the free-to-play nature and aspects of the game that bog things down.\u00a0 You can compete in races to unlock items to upgrade your cars, but you always have to be connected online to race, and about half the time, I couldn\u2019t connect to race.\u00a0 And it takes FOREVER to unlock any upgrades as you have to collect a ton of rewards to do so, and you must wait hours for the reward boxes you earn to open.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame, too, because there are tons of cars to collect.\u00a0 Some are pretty cool, too, like one that\u2019s shaped like a shark.\u00a0 And while the graphics are great, the speed can get so fast that things look a little blurry and it\u2019s hard to tell where to go on the track.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame, too, because had this game been released on a console without all that free-to-play stuff and cars that unlock less sporadically, this would\u2019ve been a really fun game.\u00a0 I dunno, maybe there was a console Hot Wheels game like this at one point.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never played a Hot Wheels game before this one.\u00a0 Since the game is free, I say it\u2019s still worth checking out, but you might lose interest quickly like I did after having the race the same track over and over to unlock a small upgrade, much less a new car.<\/p>\n

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You can crash your car into a wall or get slammed into the side and break into pieces, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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