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what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today we are checking out something that I'm sure is going to be quite fun to test out this is the Anki overdrive which is an incredibly sophisticated racing game which includes these little guys here these little little cars which move around a track very intelligently and there's an app that goes along with it so you can control various things within the game I've actually looked at the previous version this one looks a lot more interesting now added the ability to build your own track use these various accessories to send the track up over obstacles I've got the starter kit over here and then I've got some accessories let's jump inside get a brief overview and go from there the starter kit features ten Anki overdrive flex track pieces that allow you to build and rebuild up to eight epic battlefields so here you can see this this is stuff you can build right out of the box without any accessories different game modes race battle time trial tournament multiplayer and team and as you can see here it's installed on these two devices it'll work on iOS and Android of course you can use it on a phone or tablet I'm moving these are the two cars that are included in the starter kit you have the ground shock as well as skull as you move through the game you're gonna also unlock new things upgrades and so on so let's go ahead and crack this baby open skull red gray there's also a new charger you can now charge for vehicles on one little dock 20 minutes of play from around an 8 minute charge mmm this little guy is actually for the tires I believe you sort of run them over like this get the junk off and get yourself some some fresh traction a power brick here USB on one end power on the other here a couple little risers again if you want to build up the track in a section and want to give it a little incline that's cool here are some track components what's cool about these is they're fairly durable flexible look at this they attach magnetically you don't have to be worried about clips breaking or anything like that just kind of like this just line them up I mean that's brilliant magnets make everything better you're encouraged to continue to change around your track and change around a situation you might just do that and never actually get to the game a couple more vehicles this guy's called nuke and this guy's called thermo Wow the old-school version of that which is like a zip tie around the thing into the thing nightmare what kind of dude is getting amped up about packaging Jack that's who hey Jack how about this packaging that makes four total look at that squadron I'm gonna go with this guy ground shock let's go ahead and set it up and and test it out do a little bit of look the gameplay okay so we are messing around with a couple different construction scenarios couple things to note real quick on your first build don't build anything super complicated because there is a qualifying round in that round you can't use one of these which is this intersection piece here another thing I noticed on the jumps you want to line up your lifter pieces on these white sections here to get nice clean jumps and also you want to have a straightaway before the jump happens so the cars can build up some speed they've been charging let me give you guys a little bit of a demo you can see here I've defeated some people already here's the qualifying round battle and so on and you keep moving through the game this way the vehicles are on a track and essentially the way this works this is where they will scan the track and understand all of the turns the intersection over here the start point and what not so you can see they just did the jump and see in the scanning they now know that there's a jump there if you want to go up on a couch for example or attempt some kind of steep incline at a higher speed you can see they scan at a relatively slow speed so do the scanning down here and this is sort of the intelligence of the game and the vehicles is that they can essentially go around this track a couple times and then figure out exactly what they're working with so I'm gonna get moving now he's gonna try to disable me because we do have weapons and I have a couple of upgrades but he hasn't shot me yet and you can switch lanes just by nudging the controller in this case a phone in one direction or the other see he just shot me I'm gonna slow down let him pass and now I'm going to try to disable him with my weapons I just remember if you do use your weapons in this case it can decrease your power and make it easier for you to be disabled so you got to be kind of careful about when you use your weapons now you also want to try to get to the inside of turns if you can oh no both guys off now if they do fall completely off the track you can just place them back on like this give them a little push now as you play and continue to progress the weapons available to you change as well as the upgrades for them you can also pause the game so I've just done right now kind of like a video game in fact and then pick it up where you left off what you're going to want to do every so often as well is wipe down a track so the other thing you're gonna want to do is use that little sticky pad to clean off the tires every so often it's sort of like it makes oh we did a little twist and still landed it hit that oh you jumped over no no I've been disabled and I assume he's about to win now he may have just won yeah there you go I'm impressed with this thing I think the ability to construct your own track to design your own track is a huge deal the enjoyment only gets amplified when you involve other people locally because then when you beat them you can laughs right in their face as they are present my guy just missed his jump I think it's going to be cool to experiment with this and send it in different directions here around the office and also share it with people in my family who I think are really going to appreciate this they have it Anki overdrive if you guys want to know any more information about it check out pricing and availability I'll have links down in the description and that's about it that wraps it up thanks very much for watching and I'll catch you guys on the next episode later normally if I cared about my opponent I'd let him back on the track but in this case I'm happy to let him sit there as my wonderful blue car succeeds in victory