Hot Wheels Velocity X (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hot Wheels Velocity X

When a criminal gang of street-racing villains overtakes futuristic Monument City, you must put their driving skills and mean street machines to the ultimate test. Hot Wheels: Velocity X is a game based on…

16 October 2002

What Hot Wheels Velocity X is

Hot Wheels Velocity X is a racing game developed by Beyond Games and released in 2002. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

When a criminal gang of street-racing villains overtakes futuristic Monument City, you must put their driving skills and mean street machines to the ultimate test. Hot Wheels: Velocity X is a game based on Mattel's Hot Wheels line of miniature racing vehicles. In the game you have to drive one of over 30 Hot Wheels cars in race on the 3D curvilinear tracks, which include banded loops or crazy stunt launchers. During the race the weapon attacks and power-ups are available. The racing is mission-based with more than 37 missions across six levels to complete.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Hot Wheels series

Hot Wheels Velocity X is the tenth of 56 entries we hold in the Hot Wheels series. The next entry was Hot Wheels Velocity X in 2002.

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What it launched against

Hot Wheels Velocity X launched on 16 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

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