Hot Wheels Extreme Racing
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| Developer(s) | Atod |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Release date(s) |  September 30, 2001 October 12, 2001 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Media | CD-Rom |
Hot Wheels Extreme Racing is a racing game for the Sony Playstation, released in 2001. It features vehicles based on the Hot Wheels series of toys.
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[edit] Gameplay
The basic gameplay is similar to most racing game. The player controls his/her car in order to get around the tracks as fast as possible. By collecting pickups the player obtains new properties, such as nitro boosts, oil slicks, projectiles and other weapons. The computer controlled cars can also collect pickups, and the game is quite violent when the cars attack each other with their weapons.
In Hot Wheels Extreme Racing the cars have the ability to transform into four different types of vehicles: racing, truck, plane and boat. During transformation the body of the car stays the same while the side of the car "grows" wheels, wings or fins. The stages are divided into different parts, each designed for a specific vehicle. The parts are separated by a "tranformation portal". When the player drives though such a portal the car will change into another type.
[edit] Game Modes
Hot Wheel Extreme Racing features four game modes: Championship, Arcade, Time Trial and Multiplayer. In Championship mode you race against three other computer comtrolled cars in one of the avaiable cups. There are three cups, easy, medium and hard. Each cup contains four stages. Points are give according to placement, and after all stages a winner is appointed. By winning a cup the player can unlock hidden bonus items, such as new cars and more cups.
Acrace mode allows the player to choose one of the available stages, and then race it against three other computer controlled cars. In time trial mode the player races alone, and tries to get the best time on each stage.
The game also supports a multiplayer mode that allows up to four players ro race against each other, using a multitap device. The multiplayer tracks are not the same as the single player tracks. There are a total of 12 multiplayer tracks.
[edit] Stages
The game contains a total of 24 stages, of which 12 are simply reversed versions of the first twelve:
- Beach-Head
- Wasted Forest
- Pier 29
- Toxic Dump
- Accursed Ruins
- Rad Shaft
- Condemned Factory
- Dead Mans Mine
- Rattlesnake Gulch
- Demolition Site
- Frozen Wasteland
- Burnt-Out Shack
[edit] Cars
The player can choose from 8 different cars. 3 are available on start, the rest must be unlocked by completing tasks such as completing cups.
- Silhouette II
- Cat-a-pult
- Hummer
- Double Vision
- Tow Jam
- Raceway 2000
- Super Modified
- Roll Cage
[edit] Trivia
- The game was originally based on the Hot Wheels Mechanix car models, and the environments where playgrounds where kids had build imaginary raceways, such as a track moddeled in a sandbox. However, in the middle of production the producers decided to change the target group and the whole game got a more mature look and feel. The cars were also change to ordinary Hot Wheels cars, although the idea of cars tranforming into different shapes was kept.
