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Take The Wheels!

Take The Wheels! is a fresh, brand new take on the arcade racing genre! Using asymmetric thrust to pilot your hovercar (think rowing a boat, but with rockets!) race across a variety of worlds, from luscious forests to searing deserts. Play online or with your friends in this exciting take on racing!

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Misdirection Studios
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Misdirection Studios
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About the Game

Take The Wheels! is a fresh, brand new take on the arcade racing genre! Using Using asymmetric thrust to pilot your hovercar (think rowing a boat, but with rockets!), race across a variety of environments, from luscious forests to searing deserts. Play online or with your friends in this exciting take on racing! Take The Wheels! supports online play as well as local split-screen play! Use a variety of powerups to get the edge over the competition and power your way to victory!

Features:

  • Up to 10 tracks on release! Set across multiple locations!

  • Singleplayer and local multiplayer (split-screen)

  • A control scheme that is very counterintuitive to most traditional (and modern) racing games, but master very quickly! (and insanely fun!)

  • 5 powerups to mess with your opponents and defend yourself with! (with more on the way!)

Demo out now!

The demo features:

  • 3 Time Trial racetracks with online leaderboards

  • Singleplayer

  • Same control scheme that is counterintuitive, but insanely rewarding to master!

  • The boost powerup! Rewarded at every odd numbered checkpoint! Which not only grants you a higher top speed and acceleration, but additional grip to make far tighter turns


    Note: The game is best played with a controller. It can be played with keyboard and mouse, but controls can feel less '"fine" (e.g. it is harder to gradually steer around a corner on keyboard and mouse verses a controller).

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