

You have to keep your finger on the trigger and stay above a certain set speed, otherwise, your car will lose health over time. This mode is great fun, and my little boy and I have spent far too much time playing this mode together.Īnother mode has you racing until you explode.

Cops and Robbers, where you’re either running from the law or working as one of them. You can play the classic GP events where you’ll race across four themed levels to try to win the trophy and get rewarded with a little character cutscene at the end, or you can play the mini-game modes. And yet I still enjoyed every second of it. Racing isn’t easy, mind you, and while the game definitely looks like the video-game embodiment of an approachable friend, it’s deviously tricky and at times frustrating. It’s like Ridge Racer and every SEGA arcade racing game have been melted down and rebuilt using the gooey goodness. It takes away the pretension and just dumps 1998 right onto your screen with polygonal graphics, a high-tempo electronic soundtrack, and a very cheery fella doing the in-race voice overs. Hotshot Racing is an ode to the golden era of arcade gaming. My favourites are rooted in my childhood, and Hotshot Racing has managed to bound right into that happy place and come out with everything I adore. "Developed by racing game veterans SUMO Nottingham and Lucky Mountain Games, Hotshot Racing is an all-new driving experience which revives the classic arcade gameplay of the 90s and thrusts it into the modern era.As any regular readers/watchers will know, I’m a big fan of colourful, bright, and friendly games. " Hotshot Racing is a blisteringly fast arcade-style racing game fusing drift handling, razor-sharp retro visuals and an incredible sense of speed to create an exhilarating driving experiencem," reads the game's official description on Steam. "Mostly Positive" is the third highest rating a game can earn, below "Very Positive" and "Overwhelmingly Positive." Whatever the case, on Steam itself the game has a "Mostly Positive" rating with 77 percent of 803 users review rating the game positively. The PC version specifically is at the bottom of this range, though it's unclear why this is. On Metacritic, it boasts scores ranging from 71 to 79, depending on the platform. Developed by both Sumo Digital and Lucky Mountain Games - and published by Curve Games - Hotshot Racing debuted back in 2020.
