High Voltage Hot Rod Show 'basically finished'
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Oct 15th 2008 at 7:10PM }
Even though it's the most recent High Voltage game to be revealed, there's a good chance High Voltage Hot Rod Show will beat both The Conduit and Animales de la Muerte to market. In an interview with WiiWare World, producer Josh VanVeld has revealed the game is "basically finished," and discussed the racer in quite a bit more detail.
The games that influenced Hot Rod Show are enough to make us excited for the project; VanVeld namedrops the likes of R.C. Pro-Am, Micro Machines, and Racing Gears Advance (while criticizing the likes of Excite Truck and recent versions of Mario Kart for "losing some of their focus"). In Hot Rod Show, close quarters racing and the long-forgotten art of memorizing tracks will be the order of the day. Typically for a High Voltage game, loads of attention has been paid to the controls. VanVeld reports that we can use a horizontally positioned Wii Remote (as in Excite Truck), the Classic Controller, a GameCube controller, or add a Nunchuk and use the thumbstick for steering.
After the disaster that was SPOGS Racing, there's definitely room on WiiWare for a cheap, well-made racer that can be enjoyed with friends (VanVeld says four-player splitscreen "could be the best experience you'll have with the game"); we can easily imagine High Voltage Hot Rod Show being that game.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
igorponweed @ Oct 15th 2008 7:42PM
Sweet! As much as I'd like to see the other games sooner, this looks pretty sweet! Maybe it'll be a nice thanksgiving gift.
akaMonty @ Oct 16th 2008 8:36AM
Looks pretty sweet, but I'm still waiting for Animales de la Muerte!
MemphisNET @ Oct 16th 2008 12:13PM
Can we get a little Rock'n Roll Racing while we're at it :D
Basil St. Cecil @ Jan 10th 2009 6:52AM
I was just gonna post that this looks a little boring to me, and that I'd much rather have "Rock 'n Roll Racing" on the vc.
I'd much rather have R&R Racing and R.C. Pro-Am for 1,300 points than this game for 1,000, that's for sure.
And why badmouth the Mario Kart franchise? To me, this guy sounds really silly for saying that recent versions of Mario Kart have been "losing some of their focus".
Mario Kart DS is awesome, and the Wii version is supposed to be great, too. I know it's the Wii game I'm buying . . . unless some silly deal for Kororinpa pops up.
This guy's mouth just wrote a BIG check . . . and I seriously doubt "High Voltage Hot Rod Show" is gonna be able to cash it.
Funnily enough, I wasn't even looking to get "Excite Truck", but since he mentioned it, I looked up the reviews of it, and I'm now gonna be on the lookout for it, as well.
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