My first (and possibly last) game review-esque video is here! Wanted to do this ever since I found out that Matchbox: Driving Adventure is a thing, so here it is. Let me know your thoughts!
This would be great as a free mobile game. For £35 this is a bad joke. "Over 10 customisable vehicles to choose from!" Mate, Unreal Tournament 2004 had over 10 vehicles and it wasn't even a racing game, do better. Mattel really have no idea what to do with Matchbox.
Mattel seems to kinda forget they have a lot of their brands, at least with Matchbox, they let whoever is in charge just do what they want, and that person in charge is actually pretty good and has been releasing some banger diecast cars. As for this game though, yeah it was clearly just some Mattel executive remembering they have the brand and being like, "Oh yeah, make that into a game."
@@cartoonist_keyagree, Matchbox cars are so good and I hope they release more castings of regular civilian cars/regular cars. This game was probably decided by Mattel themselves
@@huatseng6037 They definitely are and will continue to for a long time to come, at least from what I can tell. Personally though, I just want them to do some more variations of the Powell Sport Pickup casting.
"The graphics look like a PS4 launch game" Honestly it reminded me of a Wii game. Hell I'd even say there are Wii games emulated in HD that exceed this graphically.
Oh yeah, that one is such an old school legend of a HotWheels game. I should dig through my collection again and see how many vehicles from that one I have as diecasts.
"Now, just as a quick sidenote for real-life diecasts, I actually prefer Matchbox, because more real-life cars..." I'm pretty much the same. I'm not really loyal to one brand over the other, but I do definitely prefer the real-world cars. I saw that Rivian animation in the first minute of the video, and it gave me false hope that that was gameplay footage and there would be licensed cars. But no, instead the Matchbox game looks like a fancy browser game.
Yeah, that's a pretty good way to sum it up. I feel like if I wanted the ultimate experience, I should just make a track out of cardboard or something and use my own diecast cars, lol
Absolutely! Wouldn't have even been hard to do, Matchbox/Mattel does already have all the licensing agreements to all the companies, it wouldn't have been to hard to work out the finer details and get some Ford or Bentley in the game.
there's been a couple matchbox games, Matchbox Motor City Patrol, Matchbox: Rescue Rigs, & Matchbox Missions: Air, Land, and Sea Rescue/Emergency Response
I'd call them all borderline games, as they aren't much, but yes, they do exist. I feel like they may have had done more if Tonka hadn't had such a huge section of the market at the time.
@cartoonist_key I have one as a white version, so I remember that it is. I have a whole chest full of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. Even the Octane from Rocket League.
I noticed that a few of the track layouts look like certain real-life tracks with some minor warping of the outline An ice track looks like Interlagos squished Beach like the Nurburgring GP circuit bent a bit and the north part altered Lava looks like a bulbous edit of Tsukuba... I'm sure if I looked hard enough the others would show familiarities too.
They don't want to pay the licensing fee. Which, depending on the manufacturer, isn't really that much, I know GM and Ford are both pretty chill on the licensing front, and Mattel already has all the connections, it really wouldn't have been that hard from them. But all they care about is money so obviously this was gonna happen.
Fully agree on that one! Definitely going to pick it up as well when it goes on sale, perhaps I could get Steam remote connect or whatever it's called to work on it, that might be a fun option if that actually works.
I think you were way too hard on this game. Yes, comparing this to Hot Wheels Unleashed this game is lacking, but on it's own merits, it is a competent racing game, with great controls, and fun tracks! Great game to play with my kid!
Yeah, for what it is, it's not a terrible game, it does hold up pretty well on it's own. However, for the price they're asking, it should have been a much better game. That's my logic.
Matchbox as a brand has a greater focus on licensed models, compared to Hot Wheels, considering Matchbox's selection typically includes a more pedestrian selection. With Hot Wheels, it's all about fast cars that look cool, while Matchbox has more everyday cars. Aside from that, it's definitely a more adventure-like brand compared to the racing of Hot Wheels. I could see a Matchbox game being more open-world like, focused on exploration, and featuring a wide variety of licensed models (as well as some pre-Mattel models just for a bit of spice).
All those reasons are why I honestly love Matchbox, favourite diecast brand by far. It's to bad though that it couldn't be properly recreated as a game. They could have done so much better.
Shit dude, we figured out this "worldwide adventure racing game" thing back with Choro-Q HG 2 (That's Everywhere Road Trip for the Yanks) in the PS2, just build on that formula and you'd get a pretty decent game.
Outside of the not actually playing the game part this was a real good review, entertaining and a nice voice. I can see you going far, Ill check out your other videos later today.
I didn't even know there was a new Matchbox game avaialbe to play.Then again, when you're being compared to a more popular brand like Hotwheels, can you blame them (and this is coming from a Hotwheels fan going back to my childhood).
They've always been lurking in the background (for the most part as a more offroad and big truck kids alternative to HotWheels, especially through the mid-2010's) but have actually been doing really well as of recently. The current models they have are really good, a lot of real life cars, mostly city cars, not-so-crazy sports cars, and a lot of underappreciated classics.
Can't speak to the new games, but the first Hotwheels Unleashed used a stock music pack for its soundtrack; I've heard the same songs on RUclips videos. I wouldn't be surprised if the new one did the same. What about the Cadillac Cimarron?
It used stock music for the menu music as far as I know All the race music are tracks made by Sharks in Venice, and even have albums named Unleashed for the first game, and Unleashed 2 for the second
I can't blame matchbox game for the lack of cars as they do have a lot of licensed car and few license cars though some of them are actual real vehicles.
You reviewed 2 games Yet you didn’t even play one of the games?! I watched this entire video just to find out you didn’t even play the game? Makes this review seem disingenuous, other then that though it was a well edited put together video with some solid information just felt a little let down at the end );
Yeah, I'm not totally proud about it, but I still stand behind everything I said, I did my research well. Definitely a learning experience though, no more game reviews without owning the game myself.
@@cartoonist_key appreciate the response, and I agree with what you said, this definitely is a well researched video, and In future defo play the games you review I’m subscribing C:
Matchbox looks good sadly its like they didn’t give it all the potential it needed But hot wheels unleashed 2 is fun and im happy to play it time and time and wish more dlc cars would get added seeing u put my favorite hot wheels fantasy car Custom Otto for it and id want it soo bad now
Fully agree, Custom Otto would have made an awesome addition, Redline or regular. Honestly, they're probably just working on a next title, I wouldn't be surprised if we see a HotWheels Unleashed 3 sometimes next year.
Next game for both is a game called hot box or match wheels where you can race both match box and hot wheels together to find out who is the better toy car brand
I really, really, really dislike usage of AI, for its million negatives it has like 1 positive and even then it comes at the cost of replacing actual talent. I would rather have the Outright Games studio hire their janitor for the voices or get a guy from Fiver or something to do the music
Yeah, it just always comes off as lazy, no matter when and who uses it. I mean, all these companies have heaps of cash just lying around, they can totally hire somebody to physically do the tasks.
No way you can be saying the soundtrack in hotwheels unleashed is good, it consists of like six unlicensed royalty free songs I’ve heard like a million times. In fact, I feel like if the soundtrack was more varied, it would help hide how much track and map reusage is in this game, but since it doesn’t all my memories of playing hotwheels unleashed’s campaign are a blur with no stand out moments or “milestones” so to speak.
Personally, I just really like it when a game has music that doesn't have lyrics (with very few exceptions), and I personally really like the Unleashed soundtrack, I have the majority of it in my own playlist. Everybody's gonna have a different take on this though, you stick to yours and I'll stick to mine.
I mean, as far as games go, yes, yes it did. Though the actual cars themselves have been good, lot of great licensed vehicles I never expected to see as a diecast.
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My first (and possibly last) game review-esque video is here! Wanted to do this ever since I found out that Matchbox: Driving Adventure is a thing, so here it is. Let me know your thoughts!
The video is pretty funny and it’s really good! It describes the games well and it tells lots about them! I love the video.
i want this
_"We have Hot Wheels Unleashed at home"_
You know Mattel owns both hot wheels and matchbox, did you even watch the video 💀
@@Torboy124 I'm aware that Mattel owms both, that fact doesn't change the above statement.
@@Torboy124 I'm aware that Mattel owms both, that fact doesn't change the above statement.
@@shiethegaldouble sending glitch?
@@Z1H3M ye
Mom: we got beach buggy racing in home
The game at the home:
Imagine, Carmageddon was same price on release, every boys dream!
This would be great as a free mobile game. For £35 this is a bad joke. "Over 10 customisable vehicles to choose from!" Mate, Unreal Tournament 2004 had over 10 vehicles and it wasn't even a racing game, do better. Mattel really have no idea what to do with Matchbox.
Mattel seems to kinda forget they have a lot of their brands, at least with Matchbox, they let whoever is in charge just do what they want, and that person in charge is actually pretty good and has been releasing some banger diecast cars. As for this game though, yeah it was clearly just some Mattel executive remembering they have the brand and being like, "Oh yeah, make that into a game."
@@cartoonist_key and then there is the issue with brand Iisencing
@@cartoonist_key THIS IS 35€€€€€ WHATTTT?!?!?!?!?!??!
@@cartoonist_keyagree, Matchbox cars are so good and I hope they release more castings of regular civilian cars/regular cars. This game was probably decided by Mattel themselves
@@huatseng6037 They definitely are and will continue to for a long time to come, at least from what I can tell. Personally though, I just want them to do some more variations of the Powell Sport Pickup casting.
"WITH OVER 10 CARS!" Im actually dead from that...
I'm sure that was really impressive in '97!
Outright Games is basically the modern day LJN, so none of this is a surprise
Actually a really good comparison. 👍
"The graphics look like a PS4 launch game" Honestly it reminded me of a Wii game. Hell I'd even say there are Wii games emulated in HD that exceed this graphically.
Hot Wheels Beat That has more cars, and it came out in 2007
Oh yeah, that one is such an old school legend of a HotWheels game. I should dig through my collection again and see how many vehicles from that one I have as diecasts.
@@cartoonist_key I looked back at the car list and realised it was pretty much just Acceleracers cars, with a few normal Hot Wheels cars mixed in
@@clutch44444 Honestly, not a bad mix. Might be because they're all technically retro at this point, but still.
"Now, just as a quick sidenote for real-life diecasts, I actually prefer Matchbox, because more real-life cars..."
I'm pretty much the same. I'm not really loyal to one brand over the other, but I do definitely prefer the real-world cars. I saw that Rivian animation in the first minute of the video, and it gave me false hope that that was gameplay footage and there would be licensed cars. But no, instead the Matchbox game looks like a fancy browser game.
Yeah, that's a pretty good way to sum it up. I feel like if I wanted the ultimate experience, I should just make a track out of cardboard or something and use my own diecast cars, lol
Licensed vehicles would have saved this tbh
Absolutely! Wouldn't have even been hard to do, Matchbox/Mattel does already have all the licensing agreements to all the companies, it wouldn't have been to hard to work out the finer details and get some Ford or Bentley in the game.
there's been a couple matchbox games, Matchbox Motor City Patrol, Matchbox: Rescue Rigs, & Matchbox Missions: Air, Land, and Sea Rescue/Emergency Response
I'd call them all borderline games, as they aren't much, but yes, they do exist. I feel like they may have had done more if Tonka hadn't had such a huge section of the market at the time.
I think I’m your 141st sub, so I hope we can’t get that sub count up and more good videos, I love it. Keep going!
Happy to have you here! 👍
This is so high quality, i love your workshop stuff on BR too!
Happy to hear that! 👍
Thanks for converting the price into D-Mark. Now i know what price to pay for the game in case i travel back in time into the year 2000.
You never know when something like that just might happen to be handy.
12:23 i was about to say,you wouldn't catch me dead buying that game
3:07 That Limousine is Matchbox
Somebody finally noticed. 😁
@cartoonist_key I have one as a white version, so I remember that it is. I have a whole chest full of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. Even the Octane from Rocket League.
@@codemisterz I'd have to double check, but I think I bought every colour release of the Octane when they came out as HotWheels.
Me being a fan of Hot Wheels over Matchbox goes to show how much I didn’t know there's a new Matchbox game.
To be fair, nobody did. I myself even only found out about it by accident.
0:37
>Matchbox: 1953
>Hot Wheels: 1968
The math doesn't check out.
I myself (and I would say a lot of purists) consider Lesney Matchbox and post-Lesney Matchbox to be two completely separate entities.
yk it wouldve been kinda interesting to see hotwheels unleashed 2 add matchbox cars as like a special collab since both are owned by mattel
It's a rather neat concept, definitely would be cool to see, though I highly doubt it would ever happen, as they're fairly independent of each-other.
I noticed that a few of the track layouts look like certain real-life tracks with some minor warping of the outline
An ice track looks like Interlagos squished
Beach like the Nurburgring GP circuit bent a bit and the north part altered
Lava looks like a bulbous edit of Tsukuba...
I'm sure if I looked hard enough the others would show familiarities too.
Interesting! Never noticed that myself, but definitely noteworthy. 👍
Why did they make a Matchbox game and not put in any licensed cars? Every Matchbox I own is based on a real car!
They don't want to pay the licensing fee. Which, depending on the manufacturer, isn't really that much, I know GM and Ford are both pretty chill on the licensing front, and Mattel already has all the connections, it really wouldn't have been that hard from them.
But all they care about is money so obviously this was gonna happen.
i thought the matchbox game was a roblox game💀💀💀
it looks worse than even beach buggy racing like how 😭💀
Creative budget cutting will do that to a game.
Milestone Devs should have made a Matchbox game. I might pick this up during a sale for splitscreen
Fully agree on that one! Definitely going to pick it up as well when it goes on sale, perhaps I could get Steam remote connect or whatever it's called to work on it, that might be a fun option if that actually works.
I think you were way too hard on this game. Yes, comparing this to Hot Wheels Unleashed this game is lacking, but on it's own merits, it is a competent racing game, with great controls, and fun tracks! Great game to play with my kid!
Yeah, for what it is, it's not a terrible game, it does hold up pretty well on it's own.
However, for the price they're asking, it should have been a much better game. That's my logic.
Matchbox as a brand has a greater focus on licensed models, compared to Hot Wheels, considering Matchbox's selection typically includes a more pedestrian selection. With Hot Wheels, it's all about fast cars that look cool, while Matchbox has more everyday cars. Aside from that, it's definitely a more adventure-like brand compared to the racing of Hot Wheels. I could see a Matchbox game being more open-world like, focused on exploration, and featuring a wide variety of licensed models (as well as some pre-Mattel models just for a bit of spice).
All those reasons are why I honestly love Matchbox, favourite diecast brand by far. It's to bad though that it couldn't be properly recreated as a game. They could have done so much better.
This video is fantastic! You definitely deserve more subscribers (i subscribed)
Thank you! Happy to have you on board!
I won't lie, seeing wooden Thomas pop up for a split second in the "cars I want in Unleashed 2" segment made me laugh
Top tier joke tbh
It was on my desk at the time, I had to sneak it in.
Milestone is a sleeper build of a game company
This reminds me how i was disappointed in how super short Matchbox Cross Town Heroes were
Shit dude, we figured out this "worldwide adventure racing game" thing back with Choro-Q HG 2 (That's Everywhere Road Trip for the Yanks) in the PS2, just build on that formula and you'd get a pretty decent game.
Outside of the not actually playing the game part this was a real good review, entertaining and a nice voice. I can see you going far, Ill check out your other videos later today.
Happy to hear that! I've still got some ways to go, but the dream is alive. 👍
I wouldn't PAY my WORST ENEMY to play this game.
@@StarHorder But what if your worst enemy was to pay you to play this?
pls tell me the name of the cow matchbox with sunglasses
"Milk Moo-ver," 2004, Hero City line. Peak Matchbox.
6:55 Had to check their Spotify playlist & you are right
I didn't even know there was a new Matchbox game avaialbe to play.Then again, when you're being compared to a more popular brand like Hotwheels, can you blame them (and this is coming from a Hotwheels fan going back to my childhood).
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 has dead servers? I couldn't find any game nor even upload my car paintjobs so I can use them
Really? Never noticed that myself, maybe it's a recent development.
Justice League cosmic chaos by outright games was pretty decent tbf
I didn't even know that matchbox was still around. After they lost to hot wheels a while back, I thought they gave up and were slowly phased out.
They've always been lurking in the background (for the most part as a more offroad and big truck kids alternative to HotWheels, especially through the mid-2010's) but have actually been doing really well as of recently. The current models they have are really good, a lot of real life cars, mostly city cars, not-so-crazy sports cars, and a lot of underappreciated classics.
😭this is like a baby vs a nuke not even close im sobbing itssss so unfair
Can't speak to the new games, but the first Hotwheels Unleashed used a stock music pack for its soundtrack; I've heard the same songs on RUclips videos. I wouldn't be surprised if the new one did the same.
What about the Cadillac Cimarron?
Personally, I'm a fan of any malaise era Cadillac, so most definitely Cimarron!
And yes, the music is stock. Doesn't stop me from liking it though.
It used stock music for the menu music as far as I know
All the race music are tracks made by Sharks in Venice, and even have albums named Unleashed for the first game, and Unleashed 2 for the second
It is open world which is nice.
We need another open world hot wheels game.
I mean, borderline open world, but yes, open world games are always the best.
Hello cartoonist, you remember my aftermarket honda? i made it handle more realistically if you wonder what i have done to it.
Don't remember an aftermarket Honda. From Brick Rigs, I'd presume?
I can't blame matchbox game for the lack of cars as they do have a lot of licensed car and few license cars though some of them are actual real vehicles.
Got me to laugh with that bait and switch
Didn’t know matchbox made games.,
The few that they do have are rather quite unknown, with I guess the exception of this new one.
3:05 whats thomas the train doing here?
He tends to make cameos sometimes.
Kool Kombi in HW Unleashed would have been fun
This game got the short end of the stick compared to Hotwheels
Also with hot wheels
They have a toy like weight to them
So if they go fast they will fly off the road
You reviewed 2 games
Yet you didn’t even play one of the games?!
I watched this entire video just to find out you didn’t even play the game? Makes this review seem disingenuous, other then that though it was a well edited put together video with some solid information just felt a little let down at the end );
Yeah, I'm not totally proud about it, but I still stand behind everything I said, I did my research well. Definitely a learning experience though, no more game reviews without owning the game myself.
@@cartoonist_key appreciate the response, and I agree with what you said, this definitely is a well researched video, and In future defo play the games you review
I’m subscribing C:
@@leachlurker3569 👍
dude that ai art is insane. thats like not even kind of good
Well technically hot wheels has its own kid Friendly RUclips channel and so does matchbox
Also dosent hot wheels have a new kids show on Netflix
I think it does, I've been seeing something about some kinda show on some of the HotWheels packaging.
Review Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem which came out yesterday but it was developed by 3DClouds
Saw that in pop up in my latest spam from Gamestop, I'm definitely considering it. It's not quite a Matchbox game though, so no guarantees.
It should have been more of a simulation or quest based game yeah... No idea why they made it arcade and compete with themselves
It's basically just a cash-grab that'll wind up in the Walmart bargain-bin because it's simply way to expensive for what it is.
Matchbox looks good sadly its like they didn’t give it all the potential it needed
But hot wheels unleashed 2 is fun and im happy to play it time and time and wish more dlc cars would get added seeing u put my favorite hot wheels fantasy car Custom Otto for it and id want it soo bad now
Fully agree, Custom Otto would have made an awesome addition, Redline or regular. Honestly, they're probably just working on a next title, I wouldn't be surprised if we see a HotWheels Unleashed 3 sometimes next year.
@@cartoonist_key yea and ill sadly say im gonna buy it
@@leviebert27 Not a sad thing in my opinion.
This game could have been so awesome bro, why did they have so few cars💀
They probably knew I had to rant about something.
I need to download this🤔
Believe it or not I actually like the environment in this game better sure the hot wheels game was realistic but it didn’t feel arcade enough 😅
Tbh, I understand where you're coming from, if it had a bit more polish, it totally would feel like the proper Matchbox world.
Of course it’s Outright.
Next game for both is a game called hot box or match wheels where you can race both match box and hot wheels together to find out who is the better toy car brand
Hot Wheels would totally win up until the point where the road disappears, then Matchbox would have the advantage.
the new hot wheels worlds best driver
I really, really, really dislike usage of AI, for its million negatives it has like 1 positive and even then it comes at the cost of replacing actual talent. I would rather have the Outright Games studio hire their janitor for the voices or get a guy from Fiver or something to do the music
Yeah, it just always comes off as lazy, no matter when and who uses it. I mean, all these companies have heaps of cash just lying around, they can totally hire somebody to physically do the tasks.
@@cartoonist_key Poor CEOs cant get their 10 yachts a year without cutting those costs!
(And it's worse *than I thought)
Thanks for pointing that one out, chocolate bar and a half to ya! 👍
No way you can be saying the soundtrack in hotwheels unleashed is good, it consists of like six unlicensed royalty free songs I’ve heard like a million times. In fact, I feel like if the soundtrack was more varied, it would help hide how much track and map reusage is in this game, but since it doesn’t all my memories of playing hotwheels unleashed’s campaign are a blur with no stand out moments or “milestones” so to speak.
Personally, I just really like it when a game has music that doesn't have lyrics (with very few exceptions), and I personally really like the Unleashed soundtrack, I have the majority of it in my own playlist. Everybody's gonna have a different take on this though, you stick to yours and I'll stick to mine.
@cartoonist_key yeah the songs are good, it's just that they are very common choices for copyright free song choices so I've heard them a lot
Local multiplayer IS real multiplayer.
Was loving the video till I saw your subscriber count I can’t let gang see me liking a video by a small RUclipsr 😔☠️ gotta get you more subs ong
We'll get it in to some respectable numbers really soon, that's the plan!
hey its the funny lego game man
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THEY FOUND ME
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ps4 graphics?
To me it looks like it could be late ps2 AAA or early ps3 budget game graphics.
I was being a bit generous, tbh. I wouldn't know for certain since I've always been one of those PC nerds.
matchbox WOULD use ai generated content.
Well, Mattel, probably, Matchbox themselves, no they wouldn't, they're all old school car enthusiasts with the brand at heart over there.
Than*
Then Vs. Than still trips me up at times.
@@cartoonist_key then is a time word, than is a comparing word
@@Inexpressable I know, the issue is I do it without thinking and it's almost impossible for me to notice through my proof-reading.
Man, the matchbox fell off hard. They used to be good.
I mean, as far as games go, yes, yes it did. Though the actual cars themselves have been good, lot of great licensed vehicles I never expected to see as a diecast.
Reviewing a game you haven't played...
I ain't payin' scam prices, I'll play it once it goes for a decent sale.
looks like shit, way more generic than the hot wheels game.