Race your way to victory!

Get your X-Tool parts and driving gloves and get ready to race!  Mechanix Racing brings the line of Hot Wheels Mechanix cars to the PC for racing and adventure excitement. You can collect car parts and X-Tool points on different racetracks to further customize your cars. These Mechanix parts give better performance to each car - you can add wings to fly over obstacles or off-road tires to drive full-speed through a series of mud patches!

Choose a Mechanix Car and hit the racetracks to compete for first place. You will begin with a choice of only 6 Cars. Unlock additional Cars by collecting X-Tool parts or by finishing 1st on each race. Avoid the obstacles, or equip your Car with upgrades to drive through them!  Before you can play the Championship track Asteroid Belt, you will have to unlock all 12 cars. So put the pedal to the metal and go for first place.

Race Option and Track Selection - Once you pick the Race option, you will select the track you want to race on. Initially there are three tracks available - Urban Wasteland, Tiki Jungle, and Pluto Mines. If you do well on these tracks (finishing first or collecting the required amount of X-Tools) you will unlock the other three tracks - Construction Site, Beachway, and Moon Base. If you complete the first six tracks, you will unlock the final track, Asteroid Belt.

Select Car - Once you select your track, you will have to select your car. Initially you can play as one of the following cars - Track T, Cat-A-Pult, Screamin? Hauler, Silhouette II, Sol-Aire CX4 or the Splittin?s Image.  As you do well on  the tracks, you will begin to unlock the other cars to make them available.

Configure Vehicle - Pick up blue Mechanix Tool Boxes on the track to unlock some of these add-ons for your vehicle. Here?s a list of the things you can add to your car for better performance.

Paint - Don?t like the default color? Then change it to something more to your liking. You must collect the different paint jobs for each car.

Tires - Select from Pontoon, Spikes, or Off-Road tires. Pick the ones that best suit the track you will be racing on.

Engines - Select from 50HP, 100HP, or 150HP engines. The bigger engines will get you better speed and acceleration.

Wings - Upgrade your vehicle with either short, medium, or long wings. Wings help your car when they go airborne - so if the track has a lot of jumps, add better wings to help you get better air and control.

The Race - With the track picked out and your car selected and configured, you are finally ready to race. The main path is clearly marked with checkpoints. As long as you hit the checkpoints in order, your car will power up - giving you additional speed. Miss a gate, and your car will fall back in power to where it started. Miss three gates and the race is over. Also, if you miss two gates in one lap, you will fail and the race will be over. 

 

• Windows 95, 98, Me

• Pentium II 233MHz with MMX processor

• 4 MB Video Card  (Note:  It is highly recommended that you have a 3D Hardware Accelerated Video Card that is 100% Direct 3D compatible)

• 32 MB Available of RAM

• 100 MB Hard Drive space

• 8X CD-ROM drive

• DirectX 8

• 100% DirectX compatible Sound Card