Things on Wheels

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Things on WheelsTemplate:Efn is a 2010 racing game developed by the indie developer Load Inc. and published by Focus Entertainment. The game was released on May 12, 2010, for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade and has been met with a negative reception for its gameplay and graphics.

A Downloadable contnet (DLC) of the game was released in August 8, and in January 2011, it was patched a problem in which players who downloaded content couldn't get achievements unlocked and added them to their gamerscore.

The game itself alongside the DLC was removed from the Xbox 360 Stores on July 29, 2024, along with over 220 digital titles on the Microsoft's system, making it no longer been purchasable. And wasn't included to be Backward compatible with Xbox Series X/S.

Gameplay

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Gameplay screenshot.

In Things on Wheels, players control remote control cars in racing competitions.[1] While racing, they may choose to collect power-ups, such as shields and a freezing ability.[1] Single-player mode tasks players to race against a CPU player. Outside the game, players may use a sandbox mode to freely learn tracks.[2]

Development and release

Following the completion and release of Load inc.'s Mad Tracks (2006) port for the Xbox Live Arcade, studio began development of the project.[3] With it's innovation in racing game genre been non-linear track design.[4][5][6] In addition to game's szie of 150 megabytes along with Track editor that wasn't featured in Xbox Live version of Mad Tracks, due to initial limitations of game size in XBLA at the time.[7]

In April 2008, a short teaser trailer was released. Acordding to Art Director of Load Inc. Herve Nedelec, said that the length of the trailer were short intentionally, but long enough to get a feeling of where it's races and the discovery of the huge house inside and outside.[8]

Microsoft Windows version of the game was cancelled, despite been planned.[3]

Release

Game was released on Xbox 360 at Xbox Live Arcade for 800 MS Points on May 12, 2010.[9][10][11][12] A Downloadable DLC of the game was released in August 8, and in January 2011, it was patched a problem in which players who downloaded content couldn't get achievements unlocked and add them to their gamerscore.[13]

Removal from Xbox Stores

The game and it's DLC was removed from the Xbox 360 Stores on July 29, 2024, along with over 220 digital titles on the Microsoft's system, making it no longer been purchasable.[14][15] And wasn't also included to be Backward compatible with Xbox Series X/S.[15][16][17]

Reception

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Multiple reviewers felt negatively towards the game's graphics.[1][2]

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References

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