![]() ![]() Now you can floor it and take the lead for the remainder of the race.Īll of the above is done with your smartphone or tablet with a few simple controls. To deliver the final blow and pull away from your enemy, you may need to slow down to crawl, get in line with them and drop a depth charge to stop them in their tracks. ![]() Firing back with your tractor beam brings your opponent back into range will allow you to take them down with something like a plasma cannon. Once you’ve been reeled in, you are now under fire from a short range missile attack. You start off at full speed and jump ahead of your opponent, only to look down and see your being pulled in by a tractor beam. The race to an observer may be rather boring to watch, but being in control of one of the cars is a lot of fun. Once the track scan is complete, this is where the real fun began for me. The cars will now know exactly where they are on the race track. To do this, the Supercars are equipped with dedicated CPUs and IR camera scan the specially coated track 500 times per second. I would have preferred to flip it, giving speed controls to my dominate hand.īefore you start racing, each car needs to learn the track configuration you have setup. I was forced to use my left hand to control my cars speed. My only gripe with the app was that I could not flip the controls horizontally on the screen. The controls of the app while racing is very easy to figure out. – Tournament – Battle the AI through various challenges. – King of the Hill – Hold the lead longer than the rest of the pack to win – Battle – Take our your opponents, scoring points to win Once that it is out of the way, the app will prompt you to place the cars on the track and choose from one of the following game modes. Launching the app on your phone or tablet then prompts you to place your Supercars on the charging base so they can sync with your device and perform any needed updates. Whereas, Ground Shock packs a lot less firepower but can use his speed to stay far enough ahead to avoid weapon blasts.Īfter setting up the track, which clicks together using magnets, you are ready to go. ![]() Skull, for example, is not the quickest Supercar, nor does he have the greatest defense, but his firepower packs enough of a punch to take down nearly any opponent. Anything from zipping around you on the last turn or disabling you with a flurry of weapon attacks from the onset of the race.Įach car has a unique set of attributes and arsenal of weapons to use during a race. Your opponents also use AI to understand your racing habits while it plans out how to track you down and disable you.Įach car and virtual commander can consider more than 50,000 possible actions to defeat you on the track. So how exactly does artificial intelligence drive this “toy”? Well, you have a lot of input, and control over your own Supercar, but the cars you are racing against will use their AI to scan the track, allowing them to set the best racing course. The Overdrive app is available on devices running iOS 8 and up, and Android 5 and up. Once you have unpacked and set up your track in one of 8 possible configurations, you will need to head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to download the Anki Overdrive application. – 1 charging base, which accommodates up to 4 cars – 2 Robotic Supercars named Skull and Ground Shock ![]() Inside the Overdrive starter kit, you will find the following. Thanks to the folks at Anki, I have now had the opportunity to test out the Overdrive Starter Kit. Overdrive, as I have explained it, is akin to a Hot Wheels track on steroids combined with Mario Kart. It started with Cozmo, which is giving the NES Classic Edition a run for its money in the battle for top toy supremacy this holiday season.Īfter I had learned about and fell in love with Cozmo and Anki, I discovered their other AI-powered product, Overdrive. I’ve been talking a lot about Anki’s products over the last few months. ![]()
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