Gameplay
The basic gameplay is similar to most racing games. You control your car in order to get around the tracks as fast as possible. By collecting pickups you obtain new properties, such as nitro boosts, oil slicks, projectiles and other weapons. The computer controlled cars can also collect pickups, and the game is quite violent every time the vehicles attack each other with their weapons. The game contains a total of 24 stages, of which 12 are simply reversed versions of the first twelve.
In Hot Wheels Extreme Racing the vehicles have the ability to transform into four different element types: land, water, air, and all-terrain. And in transformation the body of the car stays normal while the side of the car "grows" wheels, wings or fins. The stages are divided into different parts, each designed for a specific vehicle. The parts are separated by a "transformation portal". When you drive though such a portal the vehicle will change into another type.
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