

Experimenting with the different characters and vehicles helps figure out your driving style and which race car best suits it. Stats wise, each vehicle is different one car is balanced between speed, acceleration and drift, one has high speed, one acceleration and the other is good at drifting. Each character has their own backstory and their own collection of four unique cars to drive. Hotshot Racing features eight different characters to choose from.

This is definitely going to be a learning experience. They often give handy hints on how you can make your driving better by boosting at the beginning of the race and how to drift around corners. To learn, you just drive and pay attention to the loading screens between races. This is a pick-up and play game, there are no tutorials here. Lucky Mountain Games and Sumo Digital have created Hotshot Racing, an homage to all those classic arcade style racing games, such as Outrun, Cruis’n USA and Daytona USA. Get ready to be transported back to the arcade in the 90’s, albeit a more crisp and clear polygon looking version. Informed heavily by its Sega AM2 ancestors and the very finest of the best-in-class British arcade racers that followed in their slipstream – including Burnout and Split/Second – Hotshot Racing is extremely easy to pick and play but demands near-perfection when tackled at Expert difficultly.// Reviews // 25th Sep 2020 - 3 years ago // By Alana Dunitz Hotshot Racing Review Boost is a potent way to catch opponents (although largely useless to shake them), and there’s a surprisingly powerful drafting mechanic that facilitates some furiously fast slingshot manoeuvres.

The drifting is painless to trigger with a quick dab of brake, and it’s very easy to add or reduce drift angle throughout a slide to balance your speed for a perfect corner exit. Cars feel planted on the road with a satisfying sense of weight that’s sometimes absent from pure arcade racers, but they’re still snappy and responsive enough to obey your inputs instantly as you hurl them into sweeping bends. Arcade racers live and die on their driving dynamics, but Hotshot Racing boasts a very finely-honed handling model. “Better still, however, is the handling of most of the cars.
