Scorching Wheels Unleashed 2 – Turbocharged Introduced for October, Appears to be like Fairly Good – WGB, Residence of AWESOME Opinions

A sequel to Scorching Wheels Unleashed will likely be getting launched on October nineteenth 2023 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection S/X, Nintendo Swap and PC. Writer Milestone made the announcement, presumably due to the current leak which outed the video games existence.

The official press launch delves into what we will anticipate within the follow-up to the surprisingly good Scorching Wheels Unleashed, stating that gamers will likely be getting 130 autos at launch, together with bikes. You’ll have the ability to race these lovingly recreated toy automobiles in 5 environments which Milestone guarantees will function totally different street surfaces that may change automobile dealing with and efficiency.

The opposite new function they’re touting is the power to leap or carry out a lateral sprint. In keeping with Milestone, lateral dashes “will enable for tactical impacts towards opponents, impediment dodging, and daring overturns.” Tactical impacts could also be the very best description I’ve ever heard for ramming into automobiles like a psychopath and utilizing them as cellular brakes. In the meantime, jumps ought to hopefully make for some enjoyable overtakes, particularly if the sequel retains the primary video games mid-air controls.

On high of that, Milestone additionally says they’re specializing in a brand new story-driven profession mode, which may very well be a whole catastrophe or one thing wonderful. The primary sport’s singleplayer was a quite simple mode the place you bounced from node to node doing races so a extra meaty expertise does sound very tempting. Alternatively, attempting to make a racing sport extra story pushed can actually convey the cringe, as seen in Want for Pace: Unbound.

A sequel isn’t too shocking, actually. Scorching Wheels Unleashed bought 2 million copies inside 18 months, making it Milestone’s greatest sport ever. The corporate additionally crowed about it managing to recover from 8 million gamers, largely on account of it coming to Xbox Recreation Move.

Actually, the success was deserved. Scorching Wheels Unleashed is heaps of enjoyable. The drifting feels wonderful, there’s little bit of room for precise ability and the automobiles are lovely recreations of their real-world plastic counterparts. I hope they ditch the annoying concept of getting new automobiles by opening random loot packing containers, although, as a result of getting yet one more copy of the identical automotive for the tenth was bloody annoying.