On the track is where it counts and in that respect, Hotshot Racing is a winner. That’s not to say it isn’t still entertaining, mind you. Let’s face it: even if you haven’t played the game yet, you could probably guess all this anyway.

As you’d expect, you get points depending on your position and the winner is the racer with the most points after four races. There’s a total of 16 tracks split into four cups, and you can take them on in Normal, Hard and Expert difficulties (making for a total of 12 cups). Speaking of Grand Prix (and stuff you spread on toast), this is the game’s bread and butter and is a fun enough romp that will last you a while, even if it isn’t massively revolutionary in any real way. There’s a race variation called Cops & Robbers which can chuck you right down to about 30 in handheld mode – but by and large, in the main Grand Prix mode, everything runs smoother than a jazz musician shaving his face with butter.

There are some situations where that can drop quite a bit It’s a style that at the time was considered fairly primitive once the second wave of (more detailed) racing games started to appear, but time has been kind to it and in these days of photorealism the minimalist look is actually pretty striking.This is helped by the fact that the game runs at a silky smooth 60 frames per second most of the time. Everything’s reduced to such a low number of polygons that, if you were really bored enough, you could probably sit and count them on the screen.

Hotshot Racing Switch NSP Free Download RomslabĪs you can see by the screenshots on this page, however, it’s Virtua Racing that’s very much the main influence for Hotshot Racing’s visual style.

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