“Hot Wheels and Mario Kart Combine for the Ultimate Racing Experience with Mario Kart Home Circuit Hot Wheels Edition”
If you liked the idea of the mixed reality kart game Mario Kart Home Circuit but felt it could use fewer red-clad plumbers, the same developers are about to release a very similar game… but with Hot Wheels. It’s called Hot Wheels: Rift Rally and will be released on March 14, 2023 for iOS, PS4 and PS5.
Hot Wheels: Rift Rally is similarly a mixed reality game that includes a chameleon RC car and tracks that players can set up around their homes using “rift gates” – basically gates that the car can go through can drive and which indicate where the track is located. Players then drive the tracks they set up using the in-game screen, with the on-screen RC car digitally transforming into one of over 140 different variations of the Hot Wheels car.
Rift Rally includes both a campaign mode in which players use the gates to build tracks and explore different maps, and a stunt mode that avoids the gates to perform drifts, wheelies and burnouts to achieve high scores.
Like Home Circuit, Rift Rally gets a bit pricey because of the included RC car — the standard edition is $129.99 and the collector’s edition is $149.99, which includes a special edition RC car and an additional limited edition Hot Wheels car in a display case contains.
Hot Wheels Rift Rally reveal screenshots
We liked Mario Kart: Home Circuit when we tried it, but it had some technical issues that kept it from shining as brightly as possible, which Rift Rally can hopefully solve. It’s worth noting that developer Velan Studios is also the studio behind Knockout City, a very different game featuring dodgeball and online multiplayer that we just found out is officially closing in June.
Rebekah Valentine is a news reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
Source: www.ign.com
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