Anki Overdrive: Fast & Furious Edition Review: The same amount of origin, but with 100 % more diesel

Anki is one of the biggest names in electronic games at the present time, for a good reason; It is one of the few companies that brought robots to children. All this began by introducing it for the year 2014 for “Anki Drive”, a more modern race in the car racing that added weapons and artificial intelligence. “Overdrive” was released in 2015 as a settings of leadership, and has proven that it was a success in the market. After all, it’s the first ANKI product that I heard about.

Now, ANKI released a Fast & Furious version of Overdrive, which introduces the Dom Torito crew and cars in this mix. I was playing with the group for a few days, and it has been proven to be a very fun game. Given all the technology full of it, I tend to believe that it deserves 169.99 USD. In addition, who does not like where Diesel?

Outside

As you may imagine, the excessive version: Fast & Furious Edition is mainly just a significant increase with a quick and angry theme. This is the most obvious in the application, which contains technical offers for the F & F team along with custom sounds, cars, which are models of users in The fate of anger. There are also some Fast & Furious brands on three pieces of three curved tracks, and the individual “Power Zone” piece, which is incredibly easy to place thanks to the small magnets integrated into the ends.

Two cars are included: Ice Dom and MXT International Charger for Hobbs. Cars have more dimensions than real things, which gives them a look of the cartoon, but they are still giving quickly and angry. They have a wide range of lights in all ANKI cars, which certainly gives a more future feeling. Only the rear tires are a super stick, with bare plastic fronts. This is likely to allow to facilitate rotation. My review collection came with another new car called Nuke Phantom, which, as all additional cars do, will cost $ 50 very slope.

Other things in the box consist of twelve pieces of studies (which are somewhat difficult to reach), two pieces of bridge, and a car charger that can simultaneously juice four cars at the same time, and tire cleanliness (a sticky pillow that takes dust from tires). Oh, and we cannot forget the fancy poster, which features the same drawing on the square.

Technology

If you are not accustomed to anki, you are likely to consider that $ 169.99 for two cars and some pieces of plastic track is ridiculous. Fortunately, there is a lot of packed technology within this group that justifies this price. Each car contains an infrared light and camera that can read information below the path, which includes the current position of the car, the four lanes, and the start/end line. The location of the car is sent via Bluetooth with Android or IOS connected.

Talking about it, you can use your phone to control cars. The Fast & Furious version requires its own version of the Overdrive app to use, as it brings unique modes and sounds. In controls, there is a suffocating pass bar, brake, as well as weapons openings depending on the situation in which you are located or to what extent in the game. To change the corridors, you can simply tilt your phone to the left or right. Cars have momentum as well, so don’t stop immediately when you leave the suffocating.

Site data is broadcast 500 times a second between cars to obtain accurate weapons data, and cars have lights at the top that can flash red, yellow or green depending on the healthy level in which cars are located. This light is also used to show the battery level when it does not drive cars, as well as showing the car connection. There are also rear lights that appear when you press the brakes, which is an elegant touch, although they do not actually match the rear lights of cars in real life.

Car batteries last about seven or eight races, and then you will have to return them to the shipping berth. The fun will resume quickly, because the cars take only about ten minutes to rechar in full.

Experience

Watching some gaming cars that are not under the full control of the track may not look all exciting, but it’s more fun in the person. A mixture of your personal track, lights, and weapons make a wonderful game.

The app contains three situations of one player: the campaign, the open play, and the test path. In the campaign, many quick and angry characters challenge you and disrupt each other with various weapons. In open play, there are six sub -forms: sweat, battle, battle race, hill king, acquisition (which requires separate “supertruck”, and time trial. In the test path, you can do what you want.

I was mainly playing the campaign, as well as some multiple players later in this period (which eventually proved to be a defective experience). Each win gets a certain amount of cents (an individual currency option, but on what is fine), which you can spend on promotions in the store. There is even a constantly changing goals page. The app really makes the game as a suitable video game.

What really distinguishes over the excess of you from regular opening cars is fighting. Each car comes with a group of its own capabilities; For example, ICE DOM charger has a machine gun, while Hobbs’ MXT has spike strips. This adds a lot of excitement to the races, and even the campaign situation has events around it using these weapons to remove artificial intelligence x Number of times. You can display your own health on the screen, and you can see how the other car is going by looking at the light at the top of the car. The majority of promotions in the store are linked to weapons, which only show the extent of the specialization of weapons in the excessive universe.

You don’t even have to be behind the steering wheel (phone?) To estimate how wonderful Overdrive system. Before each race, the cars will take a fully independent test to set the path, even if it is not changed. If the path design is changed, the cars will take a few rolls. As you advance or change the layouts, you will notice that cars sometimes work on the path if they do not retreat during the rotation; Unfortunately, the handrails are very weak and do not hold the path well.

When the car loses control and gets out of a rival, it is able to return quickly on its way as long as it does not move away from the actual route cutting, which unfortunately is not very common. It is a pain to reach it and return the cars to the path when they escape, but this is a kind of problem of the first world. I would like to say that the only downside for the implementation of the product is the amount of the floor area occupied by the path, but it is very easy to dismantle and reassemble it to the point that it is not an issue.

It can be said that the Multiplayer mode is one of the largest points of sale in Overdrive. Yes, it is just small cars revolving around a path, but adding friends and family puts a competitive aspect that cannot be described in this mix. You can play in all the above conditions (my favorite is sweat and battle), which is great. Unfortunately, the experience is hindered by mistakes, which you can read below.

Complaints

There are some annoying problems that I faced. Sometimes my phone refuses to get to know the cars I was racing with in the previous event while trying to enter a new event; However, turning off cars and getting out of the application, then running and reopening them will solve the problem. I also faced problems with the inability to continue the race after running, even when applying it. This was sometimes angry, so we hope it will be worked soon.

A common scene, unfortunately.

In multiple players, cars often separate randomly after they were background. When this happened, the car will continue to roam the path slowly without any control and with a green light light at the top, and I must leave the game. This is uncomfortable for clear reasons.

In addition, I would like to see more fast and angry compounds that have been added to the ANKI group because the current collection of future Racecars does not really fit with F & F Motif. ANKI informed me that this is considered, but we have to wait and know if anything comes from this.

Classification /10

Anki Overdrive: Fast & Furious Edition

ANKI’s Overdrive is still a great product, and angry and angry version makes it better only if you are a fans of the movie series. It is easy to prepare (wonderful magnetic track pieces) and fun to play thanks to placing its campaign in the video game.

If you have got the dough to buy your son (or for yourself, I will not judge) a group, go to it. This would make a great birthday or Christmas gift, and fun will continue if you buy more high -end/high -range cars or expansion groups. I will keep the problems mentioned in the “complaints” section, but it is likely to be fixed through programs. Just remember that the additions can be added quickly, so watch the old wallet. And if you do not want a quick and angry feature, you can always get the standard version for $ 20.

You can order ANKI Overdrive: Fast & Furious Edition for $ 169.99 / $ 229.99 of CDN on ANKI, and will be officially launched on September 24. In the United States, it will be for sale in anki.com, Best Buy, Target, and Toys “R” US, and in Canada, it will be sold at Best Buy, Amazon, Indigo.CA and Toys “R” US. ANKI plans to spread to the countries of the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and the North.