They are actual Hot Wheels cars, after all.

The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The final boss drives a car that's supposed to have low health, but on higher difficulties it takes much more damage than it would otherwise.

Left Hanging: Two decades later and still no sequel.

Cliffhanger: Otto von Diesel escapes police custody.

It serves as a means to attack should a vehicle lack weapons/ammo.

Car Fu: Vehicles can perform sideswipes to attack or get away from opponents.

Every gadget has limited ammo that must be refilled by getting a pick-up of the same gadget. Except in the ending, he's with Sparky in the HW Prototype 12.

Bookends: Adventure starts and ends with Max Justice racing against someone.Benevolent Architecture: The ramps, half-pipes, loops, and giant cylinders that litter every locale serve no practical function in-universe, but do give plenty of opportunities to pull off stunts and earn boost.Anti-Frustration Features: If a player’s vehicle ends up upside down, they can push left or right on the control stick to flip it back over.Amusement Park: Downplayed in Crankshaft Bay, which just features a roller-coaster.Always Night: Monument City, although it's more like Always Dusk.Not only are the pipes several cars wide, but it's also home to Giant rotating gears, belts moving crates around, and a massive supercomputer silo. 20 Minutes into the Future: The game is set in 2002, but has much more advanced technology.Eleventh Hour Super Power: The Quantum Annihilator gadget obtained in the final Adventure mission.

Hot Wheels: Velocity X provides examples of: However, things turn out to be much more dangerous than they seem.

To make matters worse, there is a car robbery and bombing at his father's engineering plant immediately afterward.In retaliation, Max goes to find those responsible, and retrieve the stolen cars. Arriving there, he finds the place wrecked.

A Game Boy Advance version exists with a 'slightly' different plot.Ī teenager named Max Justice has just finished up with a street race when he gets a distress signal from home. Hot Wheels: Velocity X is a vehicular combat video game developed by Beyond Games and released by THQ for the PC, PS2, Gamecube, and Game Boy Advance in 2002, based off of Mattel's Hot Wheels toy line.

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