While human opponents, especially new players, are fairly easy to dispatch, the AI-controlled cars are brutal. They only last for around 20 to 25 minutes on one charge, and take eight minutes to fully charge, which means there will be many lengthy breaks in your play time because the battery packs aren't easily removable. Each one is apparently weighted slightly differently to give them slightly different handling characteristics, although we couldn't feel the difference. The cars are brightly coloured and despite being made of plastic, feel reasonably well-built. There were occasions where a car would find itself going backwards or taking a shortcut, but within a few seconds it would recognise its error and return to the correct racing line. It's impressive that with four cars on track, they didn't get lost or fall off too often. These moments of destruction aren't exactly spectacular, but they are signposted by the victim's iPhone screen turning red and an appropriately destructive-sounding audio cue. If you land enough shots on the car in front of you - which will be slowing down, speeding up and moving from side to side in order to avoid your aggression - that car will become briefly disabled, stopping on track for a few seconds before carrying on. If your car's optical sensor can see the rear of a car in front, the shot will be a hit. Whether a shot fired from your car's weapon hits or not is based on line-of-sight. Initially, it's a bewildering task, especially once you've taken into account your weapons and abilities, but it didn't take us long to feel like seasoned professionals at balancing the energy required to use the weapons while positioning the car correctly to take a shot. Instead, you use the iOS app to control both the speed and the line which you machine takes by using an onscreen slider and by tilting your phone left and right. Each car knows where it is on the track thanks to sensors mounted to its underside. Shipping is free and it should be with you before Christmas to give to the kids in your life, including yourself.The cars make their way around the track at pretty high speed but you don't have to worry about keeping them from flying off the road. Right now, it sits as the number 1 sold remote control vehicle toy on Amazon with an average rating of 4.3 stars. It's a racing track with the obvious phone connection, where you can upgrade your cars and their capabilities, build the track as you want with the different elements, and even expand on it with more cars, track parts, and players. The kit includes 2 cars, 6 curved and 4 straight track pieces, 2 riser pieces, 1 charging system, and 1 tire cleaner.The Anki Overdrive Starter Kit was released in the fall of 2015 for $150 and has dropped in price a couple of times to $120, but it's now down to $99.99 on Amazon. Now, toys have to use batteries, be smart, connect to your phone in some form or another, and be expandable to suck you further in their franchise.But as far as these kinds of toys go, Anki's Overdrive is kinda cool. A small toy car, a plush bear, heck even a new eraser or pencil sharpener counted. The definition of a toy nowadays is a lot more complicated and advanced than when I was still a kid.
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