Building an elaborate home track for four-player showdowns will easily cost hundreds of extra dollars beyond your initial purchase, but I figured expansion was the key to prolonging and amplifying the Anki Overdrive experience. But even if you’re on your lonesome, you can control one car and set up to three others as robotic AI opponents.

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I. gives you complete control over the cars so they can and do go off track if you steer them too quickly. The claims of this being a video game in real life may sound lofty, but this is exactly what you’re getting. Anki’s latest connected car-racing experience is lots of fun right out of the box, but the expansion kits disappoint. I'd sometimes have to follow my son's car around and shoot it directly from behind several times before his car was disabled.The Supertrucks add an exciting dimension to Anki Overdrive races, but they also lead to more crashes. No, they’re not physical projectiles or attacks (I can dream), but rather virtual volleys that resonate within the app. You can choose to play in Tournament, which pits a single human player against a series of different A.

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The cars also tend to spin out and/or come off the track frequently, which often means the race needs to be restarted. After connecting to the Anki Overdrive app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device, they’ll do a slow lap or two around the course and learn the layout. Additional track pieces, including jump sections, banked corners and crossings, are available separately.

Then there’s a superb King of the Hill mode, which is a kind of digital tag where you have to evade your opponent for a cumulative number of seconds. In the game, you use your phone or tablet to drive real robotic cars on a highly customizable track and shoot each other with virtual weapons. However, the company has recently ceased product development and are no longer manufacturing new rotors. It’s also about so much more than racing, with virtual weaponry for disabling your opponents and earning cash to upgrade your vehicle.