Common Sense Note
If you need to identify and inventory your Hot Wheels car collection, locate some new play sets, or buy accessories, you'll love this site. Otherwise, steer clear.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Jean Armour Polly
Toy manufacturers should be able to market their products on their sites. What's funny about this one is that Mattel very carefully labels two small "advertisement" boxes--while the rest of the site is pure products, links to sales partners, and marketing of both!
There are only two games available. They rate from "This is dumb" to "What were they thinking?"
In the first category, you find a large dinosaur surrounded by a highway cloverleaf. You point your mouse at cars as they pass, and T-Wrecks slobbers over to them and gobbles them down. Really fun. Not.
In "Crush Crashzilla," use the arrow keys to drive your monster truck around (or through) various hazards and get into the red zone of the speedometer to win. You won't be driving on a speedway track, mind you, you'll be careening through traffic, running stop signs, bisecting tractor-trailers, making accordion pleats in innocent sedans, and busting through barns with enough force to send the chickens into the lower stratosphere. And when you hit the hot dog stand, there's going to be ketchup all over the highway for miles around. At the end of your journey, should you survive, you'll accelerate into the Monster Truck arena, where Crashzilla awaits. Will you be going fast enough to crush him? This part is an anticlimax--after all the carnage left behind you, does anyone really care about Crashzilla?
Neither game has sound controls so you can't turn off the music, nor is there a way to quit the game before time runs out.
This is a missed opportunity to create edutaining games of value featuring a popular brand. Surely Mattel can do better.
Reviewed: 01/06/2004
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