All of the new cars were designed by Hollywood car designer Harald Belker, whose vehicles have been seen in the films Minority Report (2002), Tron: Legacy (2010), and Total Recall (2012).Īnki was founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduates, and it has raised more than $50 million. And two more cars have yet to be revealed. Other cars, Nuke, Thermo, Guardian, and BigBang, will be sold separately. Two cars, dubbed Skull and Ground Shock, will be in the base kit. Eight expansion track packs and more cars will be available for purchase. The starter kit also has a four-car charger, two risers, and a tire-cleaning kit. The base starter kit will come with two supercars and 10 track parts, and you can buy accessories that will give you the ability to build elevated tracks or add guard rails.
You’ll be able to cross-play with cars controlled by either iOS or Android devices for the first time. The company is trying to push those boundaries again with Anki Overdrive, he said. In Time Trial, players try to beat the clock, and in King of the Hill, players try to hold the lead position in a race the longest.Īnki’s Boris Sofman, chief executive, said in a statement that Anki sold out early during the last holiday season because it was an original concept in entertainment.
The game has new modes such as Time Trial and King of the Hill in addition to the Battle and Race modes from Anki Drive.
There’s also a speed title that gets the cars to speed up and a corner title that enables cars to take turns at top speed. The track types include an intersection where the cars may crash into each other and a tile that causes the cars to do a 180-degree turn.
You’ll be able to create eight different tracks with the starter Anki Overdrive kit, and up to 20 if you buy track accessories.
The modular tracks will also work with the older Anki Drive cars once they’ve had a software upgrade. This is one reason why each car has a camera and a 50-megahertz computer in it. The cars scan the track 500 times a second for the markers that will tell it to change its racing behavior and enable it to steer precisely on any track configuration. The markers tell the cars what they should be doing, such as speeding up or getting ready for a sharp right turn or a jump. Each segment of track has markers underneath the faux black pavement, which the cars can see through but the human eye cannot. sophistication, but it was made easier by the design of the tracks, which uses a special ink and optics technologies. smarts to try to beat other cars and take your car out using weapons and other tricks. You can configure the tracks any way you want, and the supercars will be able to drive on them without crashing. commanders and their crews can drive those supercars in the game’s campaign mode, and you have to square off with them to advance your own achievements. The upgraded game features a rich, in-depth campaign where players challenge a diverse cast of more than 25 “commanders” to become champion of the Anki Overdrive Tournament. So now you can route the cars around the furniture in your living room, rather than finding a big space to lay out the oval track.īesides launching modular tracks, Anki is also releasing a set of robotic “supercars” that can race around the tracks. You can easily snap the track pieces together via magnetic connectors. Anki Overdrive’s biggest feature is a modular race track, which you can take apart and reassemble as you wish.