![]() The Spruce Home Improvement Review Board.For the sheer excitement and endless possibilities with track and race designs and the ultra-easy app, the Anki OverDrive wins PC Mag Middle East's Editors' Choice nod. The added variety of play and the ability to race against AI-controlled cars really adds to the experience, and makes Anki OverDrive a compelling new way to race. You might however have to face sticker shock when you want to add more cars or tracks. The app and the entire system is so easy to understand and play around with, that even my 3-year old was able to figure out everything after a short tutorial.Īt AED 899, the Anki OverDrive Starter kit might sound a bit expensive to some - but it really is a wise investment and will appeal to many, including hobbyists. I know, because my 6-year old and 3-year old became hardcore fans of Anki OverDrive in an instant. In addition to adults, kids will definitely love. The more you play with Anki OverDrive, the tougher your car gets and therefore you’ll be choosing tough AI opponents - it’s extremely delightful. Upgrades on offer include weaponry, special items, speed boosts, weapon ports and more – it’s an exhaustive list of kit. These points can be traded in at the garage for over 100 upgrade. The app is very intuitive to use - it gives you a sense of progress, rewarding you with point for driving style and competency at the end of each challenge or race. The jump is definitely worth the extra cash. There's a range of different options like more straights, more curves, a jump, a cross-over, and a dead end. But for it to really become limitless, you need to buy add-ons to the starter set. We also used a couple of everyday objects to help give us height in sections, such as building blocks, some Lego, a couple of school books, and so on. When it comes to the track layouts, the options are limitless. An image of your build appears progressively on-screen as the cars travel around and, when done, they drive themselves to the starting line. Before the race, the infra-red camera loaded cars need to take a scan lap to communicate with the layout of the race to the app. The basic race is a 15 lap event, you can select more laps or switch into one of three other game modes with added variants too. The cars are capable of learning the track once you're set up and ready to go. But you’re alone, you can control one car and set up to four others into AI mode to race against you. So, if you have enough friends and each has a smartphone or a tablet, you can race head-to-head. Next, you need to download an almost 500MB app onto your either your smartphone or tablet, charge the cars, and then it’s, go time! A maximum of four cars can be raced on the Anki Overdrive track at one time. Putting the track together is made super simple as each end is loaded with magnets, so you can get it done one handed. The starter kit also includes ten pieces of track (four straights, six curved and a pair of risers) and from this you can build eight layouts. The starter kit as mentioned earlier, comes with two cars - Ground Shock and Skull - allowing you to play against a friend. All of the additions of course, will appeal to kids and more mature gamers alike. We can safely say that Overdrive is a huge leap forward for the company, so much so that it almost feels like a complete overhaul of the original Anki Drive in every way. The Anki OverDrive shows a lot of promise - we loved every bit of it!Īnki OverDrive is an improvement over the company's very own Anki Drive kit. The pricing of these accessories range from AED 70 to AED 300. The company was also awesome enough to send us two additional cars, an expansion track kit and a collision course kit.
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