Hot Lap Racing Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

Hot Lap Racing Review, Awaken Your Inner Champion! Hot Lap Racing is a simcade racing game where you can experience the history of motorsports, from GT to Formula 1. Race against your friends and compete against players locally or online for the championship.

Hot Lap Racing Review Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 2.9GB download size.
  • Own in-game trophies.
  • Introduction tutorial race.
  • 3D tracks and game world.
  • Three AI difficulties – rookie, confirmed, and expert.
  • Gameplay settings – racing line, traction controls, transmission, and camera type (Bumper/hood/cockpit/rear/far rear).
  • Six controller layout choices.
  • Hud settings – turn Hud on and off, placement indicator, mini moa type (full/close/hidden), size of mini-map, and split-screen orientation (horizontal/vertical).
  • Racing gameplay.
  • Full stats menu.
  • Suit/avatar customisation – gender (male/female), avatar model, primary color, secondary color, and tertiary color.
  • Full portrait customisation – background, colors, frame, and image.
  • Helmet customisation – helmet design, and then colors.
  • Multiplayer supports – local, public, and private.
  • Four solo game modes – career, hot Lap, quick race, and championship.
  • Six championship and quick race categories – GT, production, single-seater, endurance, electric, and free.
  • Each race category has a period choice for modern or historic which then lets you choose the class of vehicle.
  • 17 race tracks.
  • Quick race event settings – layout (indy/short/long/classic), hour, laps, how many Ai cars, Ai difficulty, qualification, and qualifying laps.
  • 52 cars to drive from F1 to rally cars and all that’s in between.
  • Licensed cars and models.
  • Hot Lap lets you race with any unlocked car on any unlocked track as much as you want with the best lap time saved.
  • Online leaderboards with modern and historic car filters.
  • Career mode is set up with a race-level selection system so you have control over how you progress.
  • The career mode offers an optional tutorial and training event.
  • Earned trophies pop up on the screen when earned.
  • Training modules are a bit like the driving license tasks in a Gran Turismo with you earning 1 to 3 stars.
  • Gates on a track will be Color-coded and stand for different actions to happen when hitting the gate. For example, one gate is green and means accelerate as you pass, one is orange and you only steer.
  • Decent loading times.
  • You have special events where you have to do a lap within a certain time in order to carry your career on.

Hot Lap Racing Review Cons:

  • A lot of splash screens and a big old EULA to read or scroll.
  • Spelling mistakes and typos are in a lot of the menus.
  • A lot to take in with you getting bombarded with text pop-ups.
  • The music is not great and doesn’t really suit the game.
  • Cannot remap the controls.
  • No touchscreen support.
  • The game does not perform well with it all looking stuttery and has slight hitches, it’s just not smooth and you need it to be smooth for a racing game.
  • The feedback in the training events is bad hitting the objective just fades out and doesn’t help.
  • When doing certain events the game will auto restart which is fine but it won’t have a prompt to start again and instead just jump straight in.
  • Special hot-style events are needlessly harsh, if you hit a cone you have to start again, and you get no driving line.
  • It takes ages to learn each car and you never feel like you have the brake timing down.
  • You have real tracks but they are not the official names.

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Hot Lap Racing:

Official website.

Developer: zero games studios

Publisher: Maximum Entertainment

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  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 7/10
    Sound - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Fun Factor - 8/10
7.4/10

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!