Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Hot Wheels Does AR Right With This Game (Rift Rally Hands On)”.
Here’S every kid’s dream turn your entire house into a Hot Wheels race track obstacle course. This is Hot Wheels, Rift rally, it’s an RC car, it has a camera, it has augmented reality and you can drive around the house and do all sorts of things with the camera with the video game, I’m going to show you what it’s like multiple game system Is from Bellin Studios and it’s a lot like what you may have seen in Mario Kart live the home circuit game where you can drive around your house and have it be almost like a video game on the screen. But here they’ve opened it up to where you can play with iOS devices, the iPhone the iPad or the PlayStation. They call this car the chameleon, that’s because you can make it be one of 20 different cars and each one of those cars has its own variants and, depending on what kind of model you’re picking on the screen.
Maybe you have a really cool slick car that has a different kind of booster than something else might be harder to drive. It will respond as you’re driving you’ll feel it go faster. It physically goes faster or slows down or turns different ways, depending on which model you’ve picked, and it even reacts to Virtual cars on the track. When you’re getting bumped, you don’t have to buy multiple cars for a whole family. In fact, you can play a game where you’re sitting on the couch passing the controller along and four players can change whatever car they want to have be their car as they go through a track play enough. You’Ll be able to even unlock others cool.
So you can play by having different missions to accomplish in your map, different challenges, or you can just have some fun doing stunt driving. So here’s one example of a race mode challenge, you’re going through your ringing Bells under the gate. Those bells are making the dragon mad and it’s blowing fire all over the track. But enough talking it’s time to play, I’m not a good driver or you can change your car right in the middle of the game too. I did a wheelie, so the actual car didn’t do a wheelie, but that’s the fun of having the augmented reality camera on there, because it’s making it seem like. I just did. Even though the car on the bottom didn’t you can build the truck. However, you want you just got to plop these down around the house go around the circuit, so it knows where everything is and what makes it unique this time around is that it could be connected to Wi-Fi. So your distance of your track is really just limited to how far your Wi-Fi extends and, yes, it works on carpet. It is so much more fun to play in AR because of all the sensory reactions. The you know, the the tires burning the smoke. The way you crash, it must not look very exciting, just looking at the footage of it running around the floor, but you feel it more it’s easier to drive when you’re looking at the screen than looking at just the RC car zipping around. So when this style of gaming was first executed with Mario Kart Live, It was obviously tied to the Nintendo switch. This really has opened up now to anyone and who wants to play on an iPhone, an iPad or the PlayStation. You can, you know, have additional controller accessories on your iPhone. You can also just play by touching the screen or using tilt controls, even a joystick option to drive it around, but of course, there’s also the PlayStation controller, like you would expect now there are actually two versions you can buy. There is the version here in white.
The chameleon it starts at about 130 dollars and there is a collector’s edition. This one comes in Black. It has a little extra special feature, you’re going to be getting with it, a special diecast car and some features in the game as well, and this one starts at about 150 dollars. The battery is going to last about two hours and I’m told when you charge it, you can get it back up to speed.
In an hour of charging, I’ve been seeing more ways that toy companies are kind of trying to blur the worlds of digital play and physical play. Hot Wheels has done a lot of experimentation in this world and it’s always lending itself very perfect to that, because who doesn’t want to instantly change their Hot Wheels car and see how it reacts in real time. So I like the execution of this just from our short demo here today, but we’ll have to definitely take it for a spin for the full version, so stick with CNET to see our full review in the meantime.
Let me know in the comments what you have questions about for this and what your ideal setup would be in the house to have fun with this. Thanks for watching .