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Hot Wheels Velocity X

Hot Wheels Velocity X (subtitled Maximum Justice on the Playstation 2) is a Hot Wheels game published by THQ and developed by the now-defunct Beyond Games for Gamecube, Playstation 2, PC, and Game Boy Advance. All versions have virtually the same gameplay, excluding the GBA version which followed a different story and had different cars. This page mostly covers the first versions.

Gameplay

The game is a fairly standard racing and vehicle combat game. Every mission is timed (excluding Joyride) and gameplay is split across five worlds - Monument City, Turbine Sands, Crankshaft Bay, Burnout Glacier, and Underworld.

The player's car is capable of stunts and turbo boosts, as well as the ability to collect and fire gadgets. Ammunition and turbo boost charge is usually acquired through stunt points and bonus point pickups.

Vehicles

Velocity X features a large roster of Hot Wheels cars, all from between 2000 and 2002, around the game's release.

Each vehicle was measured with a specific statistic, with one possessing a mastery of each stat.

Speed: how fast the vehicle can go.
Armor: how resistant the vehicle is to damage.
Grip: How capable the vehicle is of making sharp turns.
Stunt: the car's stunting capability.

Starters

*Must be unlocked by pairing the Game Boy Advance version on the Gamecube.

Unlocked by Adventure

Unlocked by Challenge

Unlocked by Gears in Joyride

Unlocked by Hidden Key

Unplayable & Removed Cars

Cabbin' Fever
Semi-Fast
Sling Shot
Sweet 16 II
Speed Blaster (As seen on one of billboards at Monument City)
Grave Digger (As seen on one of billboards at Monument City)

Game Boy Advance Cars

Purple Passion

Gadgets

Ripper Wheels: Deploys spikes from the player's car rims and damages nearby opponents. However, this also lowers grip.
Armor Repair: Resets the vehicle's health to 100.
Oil Drum: Flings an oil barrel at an opponent to deal damage and make them spin out of control.
Laser Cannon: Fires a blue beam that deals high damage.
Sonic Boom: A loud sound blast that sends out purple soundwaves to deal damage around the user's radius.
Atom Blaster: A machine-gun like gadget that deals damage.
Freon Bomb: Fires explosive freon that damages nearby opponents and destroys nearby scenery.
Energy Shield: Makes user immune to all damage for a short while.
Jet Boosters: Gives the player a boost in speed; also damages nearby opponents and destroys nearby scenery.
Super Zapper: Fires a lightning bolt that electrocutes its target, dealing damage.
Magnet Mine: Fires a magnetic bomb that sticks to the nearest enemy vehicle, dealing major damage.
Doom Disks: Fires three pink-trailed disks that can deal extreme damage.
Quantum Annihilator*: The ultimate, and final weapon, a red-and-gold recolor of the Laser Cannon. Slowest to charge and costs the most ammo to shoot, but unleashes the most destructive force in the form of a slow moving, orange fireball that explodes on contact with walls and does AOE damage.
Only used in Mission 14, but replaces Laser Cannon with the Laser Upgrade cheat.

Adventure

The Game's 14-mission Adventure is split across all five levels of the game. It's main purpose is to tell the story of the game's world, as well as unlock cars and joyride maps.

In the PC and Console versions of the game, the story reveals the usually faceless, voiced player's driver as Max Justice, a 17 year old and son of Peter Justice, a brilliant inventor. Max's father's lab is robbed and bombed, leading Max to travel the various outlying areas of Monument City in order to hunt down a criminal gang, revealing a long and bitter past between his father and a mysterious man in the process.

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 [[File:Hot_Wheels_Velocity_X_artbox.jpg|thumb|This is The Hot Wheels Velocity X Gamecube artbox.]]
 == Hot Wheels Velocity X ==
-'''Hot Wheels Velocity X''' (subtitled '''Maximum Justice''' on the Playstation 2) is a racing/action video game. It was released for Gamecube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and PC. All versions have virtually the same gameplay, excluding Game Boy Advance.
+'''Hot Wheels Velocity X''' (subtitled '''Maximum Justice''' on the Playstation 2) is a Hot Wheels game published by THQ and developed  by the now-defunct Beyond Games for Gamecube, Playstation 2, PC, and Game Boy Advance. All versions have virtually the same gameplay, excluding the GBA version which followed a different story and had different cars. This page mostly covers the first versions.
 == Gameplay ==
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 * [[MS-T Suzuka]]
 * [[Sooo Fast]]
-* [[At-A-Tude|At-a-Tude]]
 * [[Super Tuned]]
-* [[Overbored 454]]
+* [[Overbored 454]]*
-* [[Twin Mill II|Twin Mill 2]]
+* [[At-A-Tude|At-a-Tude]]*
+* [[Twin Mill II|Twin Mill II]]*
+<nowiki>*</nowiki>Must be unlocked by pairing the Game Boy Advance version on the Gamecube.
 === '''Unlocked by Adventure''' ===
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 * [[Flashfire]]
 * [[Deora II]]
-* [[Rigor Motor]](Playable and Unlockable Not On The GameCube Version)
+* [[Rigor Motor]]
 * [[Shadow Jet]]
 * [[Jet Threat 3.0]]
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 * [[Speed Blaster]] (As seen on one of billboards at Monument City)
 * Grave Digger (As seen on one of billboards at Monument City)
+=== '''Game Boy Advance Cars''' ===
+* Purple Passion
 == Gadgets ==
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 * '''Magnet Mine''': Fires a magnetic bomb that sticks to the nearest enemy vehicle, dealing major damage.
 * '''Doom Disks''': Fires three pink-trailed disks that can deal extreme damage.
-* '''Quantum Annihilator*''': The ultimate, and final weapon, a reskin of the Laser Cannon. Slowest to charge and costs the most ammo to shoot, but unleashes the most destructive force in the form of a slow moving, orange fireball that explodes on contact with walls and does AOE damage.
+* '''Quantum Annihilator*''': The ultimate, and final weapon, a red-and-gold recolor of the Laser Cannon. Slowest to charge and costs the most ammo to shoot, but unleashes the most destructive force in the form of a slow moving, orange fireball that explodes on contact with walls and does AOE damage.
 *Only used in Mission 14, but replaces Laser Cannon with the Laser Upgrade cheat.
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 The Game's 14-mission '''Adventure '''is split across all five levels of the game. It's main purpose is to tell the story of the game's world, as well as unlock cars and joyride maps.
-In the PC and Console versions of the game, the story reveals the usually faceless, voiced player's driver as Max Justice, a 17 year old and son of Peter Justice, a brilliant inventor. Max's father's lab is robbed and bombed, leading Max to travel the various outlying areas of Monument City in order to hunt down a criminal gang, revealing a long and bitter past between his father and a mysterious man in the process.
+In the PC and Console versions of the game, the story reveals the usually faceless, voiced player's driver as Max Justice, a 17 year old and son of Peter Justice, a brilliant inventor. Max's father's lab is robbed and bombed, leading Max to travel the various outlying areas of Monument City in order to hunt down a criminal gang, revealing a long and bitter past between his father and a mysterious man in the process.[[Category:Video Games]]
-== Beta Content ==
-Some things in the beta version were left out in the final release.
-* A left out point message saying "You've been Darylized"[[File:Hot Wheels- Velocity X PlayStation 2 Gameplay|thumb|330x330px]]
-** This was likely just a placeholder, or a joke by devs.
-* A different sound effect and model for the Sonic Boom gadget.
-* A trumpet-like sound for when you landed a trick.
-* Game title was spoken by Max Justice on "press start" screen.
-* Different HUD.
-* Different arrow color.
-* Various landing particles.
-* Pickup for Super Zapper was yellow.[[File:Hot Wheels- Velocity X PlayStation 2 Gameplay 2002 08 08|thumb|330x330px]][[File:Hot Wheels- Velocity X GameCube Gameplay 2002 01 30|thumb|330x330px]]
-[[Category:Video Games]]
 [[Category:DisContinued Cars]]