Developers behind the popular augmented reality gameMario Kart: Home Circuitare working to create a similar experience calledHot Wheels: Rift Rallyfor fans to celebrate their favorite toys with. The Hot Wheels brand has been going strong since 1968 which has created multiple generations of fans of the unique car toy brand, and it may benefit from theMario Kart: Home Circuittech inHot Wheels: Rift Rally.
Although it hasn’t seen the samepopularity asMario Kart 8 Deluxe,Mario Kart: Home Circuithas garnered an impressive fan base of people racing their karts around their houses, which is an idea that Hot Wheels is apparently looking to replicate. It didn’t take long after the founding of Hot Wheels for the company to create ramps and loops for fans to snap together to create their own racecourses for the small metallic objects to race across in their living rooms, and it seems to be a concept that the company continues to expand upon. With the help of AR technology, Hot Wheels enthusiasts will soon be racing their cars across the home with even fewer limitations than before.
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Hot Wheels has confirmed that theAR technologybeing worked on by formerMario Kart: Home Circuitdevelopers uses similar gateways to the former so that a player’s actions are effectively tracked.Hot Wheels: Rift Rallycomes with a Hot Wheels Chameleon RC car that players can customize to resemble one of over 140 potential vehicle options through the app which they use to control the toy. When it releases, there will be two versions ofHot Wheels: Rift Rally, the standard edition will cost $129.99 and comes with the basic Chameleon bundle, while the collector’s edition is $149.99, and comes with a different RC car and a limited-edition Hot Wheels car in a display case.
There are twoHot Wheels: Rift Rallygame modes called campaign and stunt which effectively compare to the Grand Prix andcustom modes ofMario Kart: Home Circuit. The campaign will provide unique maps for players to explore using the included Rift gates, while stunt mode fittingly ditches the gate technology to encourage players to act out various vehicular maneuvers like burnouts, drifts, and even wheelies to attain high scores. Because of the car options available inHot Wheels: Rift Rally, Hot Wheels fans will likely be able to do all of this while resembling their favorite toy cars rather than the Chameleon RC car.
Like how the advent oftoys-to-life technology withSkylandersinspired other companies to follow suit, Hot Wheels is seemingly looking to mimic the standard set byMario Kart: Home Circuitwhen it was released in 2020. The stunt game mode may provideHot Wheels: Rift Rallyfans even more replayability options thanMario Kart: Home Circuitdid as the latter only had different forms of racing to choose between.
Hot Wheels: Rift Rallyreleases for iOS, PS4, and PS5 on March 14.
