
Milestone Interactive has been making licensed motorcycling titles for as long as there have been video games, motorcycles, and licenses. The Milanese studio’s first release in the genre was EA’s Superbike World Championship in 1999, and although it’s had dalliances with four wheels in the intervening years, anybody who plays MotoGP knows that this studio is the Polyphony Digital of bikes – an artisanal craftsman of rigorous two-wheeled simulations that will punish you, corner after corner, for even minor shifts in weight and brake pressure.
So I was a bit surprised when, out of nowhere, Milestone released Hot Wheels Unleashed.