The stories are interesting if not a bit stereotypical. Even if your opponents do take you out, you’ve always got a chance to get back into the mix with a boost system to help you along.Įach of the game’s characters has a story, the characters will give snippets of their personality as they race, and when you finish a cup, you’ll see how the win affected them.
There’s no way you’re getting out to a lead and just sitting there as the game uses some good old fashioned rubber banding. However, the game’s CPU is fairly aggressive no matter what difficulty you chose. The single-player is a Grand Prix with several cups, each with three levels of difficulty. With one player the game runs at perfect 60 FPS not only that, the game is crisp and the bright textureless colours look great on the TV and in handheld. You’ve got a full single-player mode with cups, there are time trials, online and local play.
Hotshot Racing ticks all the arcade racing boxes, but it also ticks all the 90s arcade racing boxes. Games like Daytona USA, Virtual Racing, or Outrun. Hotshot Racing is a modern take (but still retro-looking) on the 90s arcade racing games of the past. Hotshot Racing began it’s life a long time ago as Racing Apex, now that game (with the weapons removed) has evolved into this.
Now the small team at Lucky Mountain Game and some of the racing smarties from Sumo Digital have finally got Hotshot Racing over the line. Informed heavily by its Sega AM2 ancestors and the very finest of the best-in-class British arcade racers that followed in their slipstream – including Burnout and Split/Second – Hotshot Racing is extremely easy to pick and play but demands near-perfection when tackled at Expert difficultly.Real arcade racing games are few and far between these days. Boost is a potent way to catch opponents (although largely useless to shake them), and there’s a surprisingly powerful drafting mechanic that facilitates some furiously fast slingshot manoeuvres. The drifting is painless to trigger with a quick dab of brake, and it’s very easy to add or reduce drift angle throughout a slide to balance your speed for a perfect corner exit. Cars feel planted on the road with a satisfying sense of weight that’s sometimes absent from pure arcade racers, but they’re still snappy and responsive enough to obey your inputs instantly as you hurl them into sweeping bends. Arcade racers live and die on their driving dynamics, but Hotshot Racing boasts a very finely-honed handling model. “Better still, however, is the handling of most of the cars.
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