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Hot Wheels Unleashed (XS/X)

I think my favorite thing about the game is that even though cars have various, explicit stats, all the cars feel unique due to shape and size having a tangible effect on the course that doesn't show up on the stat sheet. This encourages experimentation, and some vehicles that I added to my favorites list were ones that I wasn't expecting based on their stats.

WIth that out of the way, it's kind of a shock that this came from a veteran racing studio. The racing mechanics are fine, but there are just some baffling design choices that I just wouldn't think a studio that has been making racing games since the mid-90s would make including, but not limited to, track designs that render many vehicle builds useless (long jumps and loops make vehicles with low speed/accel. combos a liability), poor and inconsistent collision physics, intentional sun glare and other hazards that can be indistuishable among the track, and the worst kind of rubber band AI.