Challenge accepted, gear selected. Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed launches players into a turbo-charged world where gravity-defying loops, flame-spewing dragons, and customizable dream tracks collide in a kaleidoscope of arcade chaos. Inspired by the Netflix series, this high-octane racer doesn’t just let you drive; it lets you dominate, build, and battle across 12 wild circuits and five game modes. From boss showdowns to split-screen showdowns, we dive deep into the nitro-fueled heart of Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed to see if it truly lives up to its name.

Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed Review Pros

• Decent graphics. 
• 2.69GB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• Officially licensed by both Hot Wheels and Netflix. 
• Auto acceleration is an option, and you can turn the vibration on and off. 
• Audio sliders for – master, music sound, and voice volumes. 
• Fully voice characters. 
• Gameplay settings – minimal toggle, language, subtitles support, and hints on or off. 
• Racing gameplay. 
• The game opens up into tutorials for racing and fighting bosses. You can quit when you want, and there are also advanced tutorials. 
• A full, colourful 3D game world and track. 
• When racing, you can collect charges for a super speed boost that also damages people, collect boosts from doing stunts or jumps, hitting players with a side swipe, and drifting. 
• The drifting model is really good, and you have control of the drift to move around and keep it going. 
• All jumps, stunts and drifting are on the L2 button. 
• When doing the tutorials, it does show the buttons you press on a model of the controller to help younger gamers see what’s what. 
• The game is aimed at kids and is based on the TV show, so you have some idea of what to expect. 
• When you are not racing, you are in the third person and can run around this room interacting with the menus represented by people, or you can use your phone and use the quick select. 
• The tracks you race on are wide and always have barriers. 
• Records keep track of all your stats like game progression, cups played, and cool things like drifting and miles travelled. 
• The Extras menu houses your records, the tutorial which is replayable, help, and the credits. 
• Track builder mode has its own tutorial, and you can set challenges or unlock the ability to create your own tracks in free mode. 
• Six playable characters and each have their own stats for handling speed and acrobatics. Their names are – Axle, Spark, Coop, Cruise, Mac, and Brights. 
• 22 cars to unlock each affect your stats. 
• Four race difficulties – Easy, medium, hard, and expert. 
• Drivers Camp is the main story mode, and you work your way through the events and it has in-game cutscenes and it’s own progression. 
• Before a race, you can pick a car, mod, track, and decal, which gives you a buff. 
• You can skip and fast click through cutscenes and interactions. 
• Fast loading times. 
• You can turn motion sensor (gyro) controls on and off from the pause menu, along with the auto acceleration and vibration. 
• At the start line, rev your car and keep it in the green zones to get a boost or even a boost and a starting item. 
• Cool pre-race flyovers and character introductions. 
• The track selection part of the car select is where you add in this part of the track. 
• Boss fights are just a case of collecting items and then waiting until you can attack, which can be ground-based, or you have to hit a ramp first. In the story mode, all players are in the boss fight at the same time. 
• Unlock new cars, tracks, and decals by completing the secondary objective given to you each race. 
• In the story mode, you can change your car for each race, along with all the other parts. 
• The mini map is the full track and shows the faces of each racer in real time. 
• Three game modes outside of the story – Cup championship, free race, and speed trials. 
• Story mode took just over an hour to get through. 

Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed Review Cons

• You have to unlock Expert before you can play it. 
• The motion controls (gyro) don’t get mentioned at all until you catch a glimpse of them in the pause menu. 
• There is definitely something up with the handling. It feels fine moving the stick, but it is way too easy to hit the walls and keep hitting the walls even after an adjustment period. It’s just frustrating. 
• Only a small stable of stunts to pull off. 
• Subtitles will fill the bottom part of the screen with black borders when subtitles pop up. 
• Charging your special can take a while, and it’s not always possible. 
• Rubber band AI, so aside from the easy difficulty, they are just on you constantly. 
• The game doesn’t tell you what tracks are, but it’s where you pick a section of the track to add in. 
• Power-ups and abilities are tied to your one choice at the car select screen, so it means the combat can get stale quickly and doesn’t mix it up enough. 
• Boss fights are tedious and not that fun at all. When all players are in, you can steal each other’s items, so you can end up not attacking at all. 
• I am all for creating new words and annoying people with them, but faster may be my limit. 
• The characters speak a lot and are so happy and alive, it’s sickening! 
• You don’t get told about the secondary objectives and what they do. The story is forgettable and just ends with no satisfying ending. 
• No online leaderboards, multiplayer, or way to share track creations, which is a letdown. 

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Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed

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Developer: Bamtang Games

Publisher: GameMill Entertainment

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