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Hot Wheels Unleashed

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Hot Wheels Unleashed
Hot Wheels Unleashed cover
Developers
Milestone S.r.l.
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows September 30, 2021
Reception
Metacritic 79
OpenCritic 75
IGDB 76
Taxonomy
Monetization Expansion pack, Sponsored
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Track racing
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Hot Wheels
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Hot Wheels Unleashed on IGDB
Hot Wheels Unleashed on MobyGames
Hot Wheels Unleashed on Wikipedia
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Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Driver 2: Get'n Dirty 2000
Hot Wheels: Slot Car Racing 2000
Hot Wheels: Mechanix 2001
Hot Wheels: Jetz 2001
Hot Wheels: Williams F1 - Team Racer 2002
Hot Wheels: Bash Arena 2002
Hot Wheels Velocity X 2002
Hot Wheels World Race 2003
Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge 2004
Hot Wheels: Beat That! 2007
Hot Wheels World's Best Driver 2013
Hot Wheels Unleashed (series)

Hot Wheels Unleashed is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing game in the Hot Wheels series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Collectors Edition and Ultimate Stunt Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Collectors Edition and Ultimate Stunt Edition also available.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro video

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED\hotwheels\Content\Movies\
  2. Rename Intro.mp4.

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack Each expansion pack includes additional vehicles, a customization pack, a module for the Track Builder, and a new track environment.
Sponsored Includes licensed vehicle designs from such franchises as Peanuts and Back to the Future.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Pass Vol. 1 Includes 10 vehicles, 3 customization packs, 3 Track Builder modules, and 1 expansion pack
Windows
Bone Shaker Unleashed Edition
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\hotwheels\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1271700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\hotwheels\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1271700/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Thai

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
Online play
12

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500K
AMD FX-6350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 22 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1271700/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1271700) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References