HOTSHOT RACING
Edge|July 2020
Ten years later, the arcade racer is finally reborn
HOTSHOT RACING

Developer Lucky Mountain Games, Sumo Digital

Publisher Curve Digital

Format PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One

Origin UK

Release June

We are delighted to report that Hotshot Racing plays exactly the way it looks like it does. As we turn into the first corner, the slightest squeeze of the brake button sees our car’s back end slip out, tyres squealing as we enter the first of many, many drifts. As we wrestle the vehicle around the turn, walking that delicious arcade-racing tightrope between oversteer and understeer, our boost bar slowly fills. We exit the turn and trigger it, surging ahead of the pack, almost feeling the wind in our hair. Gawd, it’s been too long.

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