The track is a thin, flexible, bendy, shiny black plastic, with magnetic clips at each end. The starter kit gives enough track to make 8 different circuits, including hills and allows for two people to race and battle. The starter kit retails at £149.99 and comes complete with: two super cars, the ‘Skull’ and ‘Ground Shock’, 10 pieces of of track, a charging station for the cars, riser pieces to create hills and a tyre cleaner. It sounds awesome and we were lucky enough to get the starter kit sent to us to check out! The game introduces an innovative magnetic modular track system that allows gamers to custom build epic battlefields within seconds. In Anki Overdrive, players take control of the super cars of the future via handheld mobile devices as they battle and race against friends, family or AI-controlled commanders. That’s what Anki have done and boy, have they done it well!Īnki, a US based robotics and artificial intelligence company has been able to bring an unattainable level of intelligence and gameplay to the physical world by blending the best of toys and video games into a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience. Now imagine Scalextric, but with a modern, futuristic twist. Is it a must-have add-on? Nah, but they do add new life to the game.You may have grown up with the brilliantly classic Scalextric and if not, you have probably heard of it before, as it is still a very popular toy in most households. We race around the track a few times and then the track sits unused for weeks until I pack it up.įor $60 Supertrucks are a fun addition to Overdrive. The track sections snap together so in theory there are countless ways to make a track, but most of the time, we end up with similar-looking tracks. We clear floorspace in their playroom and set it up. My kids love to break out Anki every couple of months. At least until they’re not.Įventually the novelty of the big trucks wears off after a few races. And in Rage Mode, the truck is nearly as fast as the race cars. Once a player does enough damage, they get to control the truck and if they control the truck long enough, the truck enters Rage Mode. Players are supposed to take control of the truck by hitting it with their race car’s virtual weapons. They lumber around the race track controlled by the game’s AI. They’re also slower, at first, than the race cars. The Supertrucks are three times as large as the race cars. This new type of car is radically different from the race cars. It’s clever, but for me, the novelty wears off quickly. As the players win races and battles, the cars gain new virtual weapons and increase in speed. It’s a slot car game for the smartphone generation. The core concept between the two games are the same: Players race small remote control cars around a track using a smartphone app. The company launched its first game called Drive in 2013 and followed that up with Overdrive in 2015. This is the first major update to Anki’s second generation game. The Supertrucks as they’re called add a new type of game mode and a bit of variety to the race car game. This is clearly an attempt to breathe new life into the platform. Anki is adding large semi-trucks to its Overdrive game.
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