Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged

Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged is the sequel to the arcade racing game inspired by the iconic Hot Wheels toy cars, and on Xbox Series X/S it expands the concept of a track built from orange plastic rail with new settings, including giant courses winding through households, shops, garages, offices, and outdoor locations such as gardens or busy streets. The game keeps its arcade-style controls, with an emphasis on drifting, jumps, loops, and boosting, and offers dozens of licensed Hot Wheels car models, from classic shapes to fantastical machines, monster trucks, and movie icons on wheels with bold flame, lightning, and chrome-bodywork motifs. The career mode takes players through a long series of races and challenges, gradually unlocking new cars, tracks, and parts for both visual customization and performance upgrades.

The sequel's new feature is dynamic weather that affects grip on the track, along with an expanded track editor that lets players build and share their own racing circuits complete with custom obstacles, loops, jumps, and shortcuts, sharing them with other players around the world. On the new generation of consoles, the game benefits from vivid, saturated colors and a smooth frame rate even with a large number of opponents on screen at once, which heightens the sense of speed on miniature tracks built at a giant scale across ordinary household settings, from the kitchen counter to the garden pool.

Since its very first entry, the Hot Wheels Unleashed series has enjoyed a warm reception thanks to its combination of nostalgia for the toy brand and honest arcade fun accessible even to younger players. Turbocharged expands on that formula with more content, settings, and track variety, cementing the series' position as one of the most enjoyable arcade racing games of the current console generation, suited to both solo play and family split-screen duels.

Why play it: Thanks to its nostalgia for the toy brand and honest arcade fun, Turbocharged ranks among the most enjoyable arcade racing games of this generation, suited to both solo play and family split-screen duels.