The Good: Above average racer that throws in a good measure of customization features. Lots of time spent flipping through different car paint colors and styles (liveries) which include different bodies, wheels, undercarriages, and features. Paint jobs can be uploaded and voted on, as well as flipping through other people's designs. Tracks are exciting for quite some time, AI is fun to race, incentives for winning races and unlocking stuff. Neat to play with popular Hot Wheels cars in a fun, different way. Kept me interested playing off and on during the year.
The Bad: At some point tracks become stupid-hard where the slightest flaw puts you into a spiraling debt trying to recover. Most of the time it's just better to quit even in the final lap and re-start. Opportunity was there to include more car models given Hot Wheels' vast history of cars made.
The Ugly: Online multi-player used to be free but not anymore, open the wallet even wider. Nickel & diming everywhere, like a digital slot machine. Can't download and 'keep' car customization, must be connected online to view your own even when you have no intention of going online for any reason. Track designing wasn't as fun as I had hoped, a lot of basic features need unlocking.
