{"id":27317,"date":"2026-11-09T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=27317"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:42:53","slug":"hot-wheels-infinite-rush-switch-2-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/09\/hot-wheels-infinite-rush-switch-2-ps5-xbox-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Wheels Infinite Rush (Switch 2, PS5, Xbox X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t know a single kid who doesn\u2019t like playing with cars like Hot Wheels.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was little, one of my favorite Christmas gifts was this beige-y fold out Hot Wheels Service Station from the 70s (if you know, you know).\u00a0 Many years later, one of my little brothers got this volcano Hot Wheels playset and my best friend and I took the loop off the top of the volcano, increased the torque on the speed spinners, and made the Hot Wheels cars shoot up the volcano and hit the ceiling!\u00a0 Yeah we got in a little bit of trouble for that.\u00a0 Anyway now you can play a new Hot Wheels video game with Infinite Rush.\u00a0 It\u2019s an open world racer with events to find on several different huge islands. Kind of reminds me of a Switch game I played years ago called LEGO 2K Drive. \u00a0Hot Wheels Infinite Rush is available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch 2 here.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll start out in a huge city area but this city also has tons of those orange vinyl bendable tracks everywhere as well as places that look like Hot Wheels playsets (and if they\u2019re not, they very well could and should be).\u00a0 Steering your car is like any other racing game.\u00a0 R2 for gas, L2 for brake, and you can boost with B and drift while holding the brake while turning.\u00a0 You can also do a little sidestep move but I never used it.\u00a0 On the city map you\u2019ll find all sorts of events from races to stunt challenges, photo tours, destruction derbies, and more.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to complete all the main races on the map and then challenge a rival to unlock the next island.\u00a0 You can mark these spots on the map so you can find them easier.\u00a0 There are lots of other hidden things to find around the islands as well, like gear coins, stickers to take pictures of, and more.<\/p>\n

When you complete races, you can unlock new Hot Wheels cars to drive and there are tons of them!\u00a0 If you have friends over who want to play, you can jump right into some quick races for up to four players.\u00a0 You can even go online, too.\u00a0 You can also customize your cars with paint jobs and stickers that you\u2019ve found.\u00a0 There is even a track editor!\u00a0 My only problem with the game is that I wish the cars handled a little tighter, but it could\u2019ve just been the ones I was using.\u00a0 And as you play, you can upgrade them to do even better.\u00a0 Also sometimes the goals and objectives were a little unclear, and the tracks don\u2019t always do a good job of telling you where to go.\u00a0 But if you liked the open world part of Mario Kart World, you will probably enjoy this one, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as good as Mario Kart World, but it\u2019s still a fun little racer that would make a great Christmas gift for any kid and Hot Wheels fan.<\/p>\n

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Hot Wheels: Infinite Rush is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Users Interact and In-Game Purchases.\u00a0 Basically parental supervision is recommended for when your child goes online or tries to buy stuff with real money from the in-game shop. You can crash into other toy cars but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 \u00a0Reading skill is also a must, as everything is text based.\u00a0 Multiple difficulty selections mean players of all ages can enjoy this, but younger gamers may still need a try or two before getting the hang of each race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know a single kid who doesn\u2019t like playing with cars like Hot Wheels.\u00a0 Heck, even when I was little, one of my favorite Christmas gifts was this beige-y fold out Hot Wheels Service Station from the 70s (if you know, you know).\u00a0 Many years later, one of my little brothers got this volcano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27319,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317\/revisions\/27319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}