Product Description

Interactive Hot Wheels fun! Race your friends. Shift your Hot Wheels experience into high gear. Become the ultimate extreme racer! The HotWheels.com Turbo Driver is an online game controller that gives boys access to Race The World, an exclusive racing game. It also works with more than 20 cool games hosted on HotWheels.com! The player works with 8 different Car-Tridge vehicles, one of which comes with the controller, with the other 7 sold separately. When loaded into the controller, the Car-Tridge shows up on screen and enables a boy to race with all the attributes of that exact car. Each car works best in one of 8 environments in the game, so choose the best one and conquer each level... to become the ultimate extreme racer! Not compatible with Mac computers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4250 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Mattel
• Model: N1709
• Released on: 2008-06-01
• Dimensions: 11.00" h x 2.50" w x 9.00" l,

Features

• This game controller gives boys access to "Race the World", an exclusive online 3D racing game, and also works with more than 20 other cool games hosted on HotWheels.com
• The player works with 8 different Car-Tridges (one comes with the controller, 7 are sold separately). Each Car-Tridge, when loaded into the controller, shows up on screen and enables a boy to race with all the attributes of that exact car.
• Each Car-Tridge, when loaded into the controller, shows up on screen and enables a boy to race with all the attributes of that exact car.
• Choose the best car-tridge to race the terrain
• Only works with HotWheels.com

From the Manufacturer
The HotWheels.com XR Player is an online game controller that gives boys access to "Race the World", an exclusive 3D racing game, and also works with more than 20 cool games hosted on HotWheels.com. The player works with 8 different Car-Tridges (one comes with the controller, 7 are sold separately). Each Car-Tridge, when loaded into the controller, shows up on screen and enables a boy to race with all the attributes of that exact car. Each car works best in one of 8 environments in the 3D game, so choose the best Car-Tridge and conquer each level of the game to become the ultimate Xtreme Racer.

Customer Reviews

Can't get it to load
The CD installed fine. The Race the World download took a while, so my kids were eager to play by the time it finished. Every time we try to 'Race the World' we get a black screen then it blips off. I've tried uninstalling both, restarting the computer. The turbo drive controller works on the website. My computer has plenty of memory space. As Jem noted in a prior review, there is little support for the product. There's no info, tips, or contacts on hotwheels.com. So I'm looking to you for help. Any ideas?

I May Never Get My Nephew's Attention Again
I handed this game controller to my eight year old nephew over Christmas break to keep him entertained and didn't see him again for several hours after his father helped him connect it and start playing. Relatives came, relatives left- I don't think Max noticed as he was too involved in navigating turns and listening to the music of the game. I asked him how he liked it and without blinking or looking from the screen he told me it was really cool, a lot of fun, and could I please move as I was blocking the light. I think he liked it.

Fun Computer Game
My 9 year old son got this for his birthday along with some other video games and he plays with this almost every day. I have even played with it from time to time. We only gave him the controller and he is already talking about getting the shark and tank cars.

My wife and I did find all the cars at such retailers as Wal-Mart and Target. Cars were under $5.00 each at those stores. With the controller and cars our total cost was around $70.00 which is a little more than a Wii game. The added fun is the cars.

I read some reviews about having trouble getting the disc to download but we had no trouble at all.