Rims, headlights, spoilers, the steering wheel, taillights, footboards, even the decoration on the rear view mirror.

Not only can the paint be changed, but pretty much everything you can imagine. As you race, you earn money that can be spent on different outfits for your characters or, you can work on customizing your ride to make your car look the way you want. It doesn’t make sense to choose a car that is great at acceleration, when you want to focus on drifting.Ĭhoosing the car and driver you will be using is not the only thing you can customise. Experimenting with the different characters and vehicles helps figure out your driving style and which race car best suits it. Stats wise, each vehicle is different one car is balanced between speed, acceleration and drift, one has high speed, one acceleration and the other is good at drifting. Each character has their own backstory and their own collection of four unique cars to drive. Hotshot Racing features eight different characters to choose from. This is definitely going to be a learning experience.

They often give handy hints on how you can make your driving better by boosting at the beginning of the race and how to drift around corners. To learn, you just drive and pay attention to the loading screens between races. This is a pick-up and play game, there are no tutorials here.

Lucky Mountain Games and Sumo Digital have created Hotshot Racing, an homage to all those classic arcade style racing games, such as Outrun, Cruis’n USA and Daytona USA. Get ready to be transported back to the arcade in the 90’s, albeit a more crisp and clear polygon looking version.

Reviews // 25th Sep 2020 - 3 years ago // By Alana Dunitz Hotshot Racing Review

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