Hot Wheels Unleashed

Teetering on the brink with this one. Kid 1 took a look but dismissed it, but kid 2 seems into it. Does anyone know, for the local splitscreen, can you set the difficulty per user? Like easy for him but normal for me? I assume not as I haven't seen any talk of "assists" like in, say, Mariokart.

I'd say it's one difficulty for both players. Can't see it being possible to mix both with AI players as difficulty controls their speed.

Some of the longer tracks with 2 minute+ laps are a bit bloody frustrating when you inevitably boost at the wrong time and go flying out of bounds. Reset and you're in last place and the game bloody restricts you from using boost for a few seconds. Grrrr!
Dropped it down to easy for a couple of particularly annoying tracks.

To be honest once you kind of "get it" it's pretty easy. To the point where I'm probably going to have to put it on hard.

ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT JESUS EFFING CHRISTOS I'VE BOUGHT IT. ENOUGH WITH THE HARD SELL.

Twenty squids on Steam - seems rude not to.

I upgraded KITT immediately but I’ve got a better car. I’ve actually had it since I started playing, as it came from my 2nd blind box, and I’ve not found anything better yet.
I only really use it for TTs though.

Seems to be 60 per race, and 70 for a win from what I've noticed. I've clocked a fair few afk'ers who I am assuming are just leaving it on to farm the 60 each race.

You get some really brilliant races on there though.

I only had a handful of races online and got absolutely twatted.

Anyone else absolutely demolishing the races without so much as breaking a sweat, but struggle like fuck on any of the time trials? AI on normal, maybe I should bump it up.

Oh just got the Turtles van. It's shit.

You shut your whore mouth!

So it looks cool and you hear them shout cowbunga every now and again and the boost is a controllable meter rather than a switch off and on thing. Which would all be cool if it went round corners too.

And when you press the dedicated 'Blimp mode' button?

Not dabbled with the track editor yet. Can you share creations online?

Some of the liveries people have done for cars are fucking incredible.

The Knight Rider car is a bit too barrel rolly for my liking having played with it for a bit. Still haven't found a match for that Koenigsegg yet.

I do really love how each car seemingly has it's own unique physics like that though. It really is a brilliant game. You wouldn't have batted an eye if they'd have made this a street racer and called it Burnout.