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Developer - Anki, Inc.

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Home page - anki.bot/overdrive
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Anki Drive From CES 2014

Published on Jan 7, 2014

Greg Kumparak visits Anki and talks with CPO Mark Palatucci about their new product, Anki Drive.

 

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AnkiDRIVE Antics!

Published on Nov 27, 2014

 

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Anki Drive's next upgrade

Published on Feb 10, 2015

AI-powered remote control car maker Anki today unveiled Anki Overdrive, the next generation of its play sets that lets kids (and the adults who inevitably have to play with them) create their own tracks from various tiles. Kyle Russell checks out Anki Drive's new cars and tracks.

 

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Anki Overdrive - Every Car & Weapon - BigBang, Guardian

Published on Jul 2, 2015

We have an up close look and all the cars for the launch of Anki Overdrive. Not only in the hand but also on the track in the new King of the Hill mode with the new Anki Overdrive app.

Here's the full run down of the cars:
SKULL – The car’s Pirate Core lets it sail across the track at high speed while its cannon rips through enemy hulls.
GROUNDSHOCK – Its PowerStation Core electrifies the track with split-second maneuvering and lightning-fast attacks. Don’t get in its way.
THERMO - Its Magma Core engine is old-school meets future. Using hyper-charged internal combustion, it not only burns up the track, it projects fire at anyone in range.
NUKE - Its Fusion Core can be charged up to unleash ultra-high energy blasts that tear through normal shields. Its cool exterior masks an unstable explosive interior.
GUARDIAN - The car’s Siren Core keeps the pursuit of victory going at full volume. Its piercing sonic attacks go right through armor and cause challengers to lose control.
BIGBANG – This armor-plated heavyweight’s Graviton Core creates massive shockwaves that send foes flying off course.

 

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Racing the robot cars of Anki Overdrive

Published on Jul 21, 2015

The name Anki may be familiar to some of you. It was the surprise guest at Apple’s 2013 World Wide Developer’s conference where it unveiled Anki Drive, a robotics-based race car game the combined an iOS App control system with a real track and electric toy race cars. The $200 final product, which arrived in stores that October, was pretty impressive. It featured an oval-pre-printed rack and two cars that could read the road, see each other and connected via Bluetooth to the Anki app.

With Anki Overdrive, though, Anki has gone more than a few steps further, creating what may be the best possible version of the classic slot-based, physical racing games. Each $150 started kit comes 10 pieces of straight and curved flexible track that snap together magnetically. There’s also some elevation pieces, a four-car charging base and a tire cleaner. During my time with the set, we must have done three or four different configurations. I only wish the slot systems of my childhood had been so easy.

As with the original set, Anki Overdrive includes two cars, though all the light-weight, palm-sized racers (additional ones cost $49 a piece) now benefit from the design chops of Harald Belker, the designer responsible for the look of the vehicles in Tron Legacy and Batman and Robin (you can’t blame him for the quality of those films). Anki’s cars include their own personalities and driving styles. Skull, for example, is a high-speed racer that features a canon. In Anki Overdrive, the “commander’ you choose in the app further modifies the driving style, whether you’re controlling the cars, or not. Anki representative told me that these new virtual race car drivers make it feel like you’re racing against a human instead of the computer (though, if it’s just you, you are racing against a computer).

 

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Anki Overdrive - Everything We Know Unboxing - Price & Release Date

Published on Jul 2, 2015

We talk to Hanns from Anki about the new Anki Overdrive game. He takes us through everything we know about the game. Cars, Commanders, the new Game app, upgrades, weapons, tactics, price and date.

Cars and Weapons (SKULL and GROUNDSHOCK are included in Starter Kit):
SKULL – The car’s Pirate Core lets it sail across the track at high speed while its cannon rips through enemy hulls.
GROUNDSHOCK – Its PowerStation Core electrifies the track with split-second maneuvering and lightning-fast attacks. Don’t get in its way.
THERMO - Its Magma Core engine is old-school meets future. Using hyper-charged internal combustion, it not only burns up the track, it projects fire at anyone in range.
NUKE - Its Fusion Core can be charged up to unleash ultra-high energy blasts that tear through normal shields. Its cool exterior masks an unstable explosive interior.
GUARDIAN - The car’s Siren Core keeps the pursuit of victory going at full volume. Its piercing sonic attacks go right through armor and cause challengers to lose control.
BIGBANG – This armor-plated heavyweight’s Graviton Core creates massive shockwaves that send foes flying off course.

The Anki OVERDRIVE Starter Kit will retail at ?149.99 including VAT and will come with two supercars and 10 separate modular FlexTrack pieces, allowing gamers to build eight different battle courses. Players will also be able to expand their battlefield by adding expansion pieces to the starter kit to build massive megatracks with endless variations and new gameplay possibilities. Expansion track packs and accessories vary between ?9.99 – ?29.99 per pack and expansion robotic supercars retail at ?49.99.
Starter Kit contents and expansion sets available:
Starter Kit – (2) two robotic supercars – Skull and GroundShock, (4) straight track pieces, (6) 90 degree curved pieces, (2) riser pieces, (1) four-car charger, (1) tire cleaning kit
Corner Kit – (2) 90 degree curved pieces
Speed Kit – (2) straight track pieces
Collision Kit – (1) 4-way intersection piece
Launch Kit – (1) take off piece, (1) landing track and (3) trestle pieces to create the ultimate jump
Rails Kit – (8) guard rails ensure the chaos of battle stays on the tracks
Bank Turn Kit – (4) Race around corners at faster speeds and pull some serious G-forces.
Elevation Kit – (4) riser pieces to elevate the battle field

 

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Anki Overdrive - Unboxing, Track Building & Robot Car Testing

Published on Aug 24, 2015

We unbox and play Anki Overdrive ahead of the game launching and the app being released. All sort of crazy tracks from a gargantuan collection of track pieces.

The new Anki Overdrive game lets you snap together your own circuits before setting the Robot Cars loose to do battle. From there you then trigger a range of different game modes (Battle, Race, King of the Hill) as you progress through the game's story.

There's multi-player and campaign modes as well as a host of computer AI drivers to take on. Each car has it's own special weapons and can be upgraded via the app.

 

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Rule the racetrack with Anki Overdrive

Published on Sep 19, 2015

Build your own modular racetrack for these app-controlled cars.

 

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If Hot Wheels and Sphero Had a Baby, It Would Be Anki Overdrive

Published on Sep 26, 2015

Anki Overdrive combines the nostaligic toy race car fun of Hot Wheels with the smartphone control and artificial intelligence of Sphero. It's fun, really fun, but not without a few wrong turns.

 

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Super robot race cars

Published on Nov 27, 2015

Thanks to Anki for sending us Anki Overdrive!

 

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Unboxing Anki Overdrive

Published on Nov 28, 2015

 

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Anki OVERDRIVE :: Real Robot Battle Racing

Published on Dec 9, 2015

 

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Anki Overdrive 1.1 - Super-Sized, Day, Night & Garden Track [Day 2]

Published on Dec 14, 2015

Anki Overdrive 1.1 brings us teams and we look at an expanded Anki track setup including new packs for:
- Rails Kit
- Riser Kit
- Corner Kit
- Speed Kit
- Banked Turn Kit
- Collision Kit
We play inside in the day time, in the dark at night and in the garden for some dusk outside action -- even in the mist and rain.

Anki Cars and Track provided by Anki.

 

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Anki Overdrive vs Real FX vs Scalectrix ARC ONE/AIR

Published on Dec 24, 2015

We take a detailed look at Anki Overdrive, Real FX and Scalextric ARC AIR to discover the best car racing game to get.

We compare what these racing toy games have to offer in terms of:
- Track
- Cars
- Controls
- Apps
- Characters
- Modes

 

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Anki Overdrive MegaTrack Winner - Nerf, Skylanders, Lego Track Combos

Published on May 28, 2016

We announce the winner of our Anki Overdrive Megatrack winner and review some of the amazingly creative entries from families across the world.

 

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Anki Supertrucks & Big-Rigs Interview

Published on Jun 22, 2016

We talk to Tommy Liu from Anki about its new Supertruck Big-Rig expansion for Anki Overdrive.

He confirms that you can race two trucks in all the game modes, and also that the trucks are more powerful to be able to pull their trailers.

"We changed the motors and added a second gear reduction for more torque so it would feel like a truck."

"There's a lot of work that went into modelling the truck and how it handles on the track. We had to change our AI path-finding so it could plan the best place to use the truck weapons."

"The user interface detects if you have a truck connected. The Takeover mode will be greyed out unless you have a truck. We also customised the screens so you can see more easily which car you are driving."

 

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Anki Overdrive X52 Supertruck blasts opponents off the race track

Published on Oct 25, 2016

One of the newest Supertruck vehicles in the Anki Overdrive racing set can attack other cars in a new Takeover game mode that is controlled using either a smartphone or tablet. CNET's Joseph Kaminski and his son Jordan battle each other while testing out the toy car set.

 

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Anki Overdrive Supertrucks - Freewheel unboxed, review, and play takeover!

Published on Oct 25, 2016

Today we unbox the new Anki Supertruck Freewheel! We will go over the new weapons, rage, armour, speed, etc. Finally we try out the new Takeover game mode!

 

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Anki Overdrive Fast & Furious Unboxing Adventure - w/ Ollie & Thom

Published on Aug 18, 2017

We visit the Anki offices to check out the new Anki Overdrive Fast & Furious set. This Starter Pack comes with:
- Dom’s Ice Charger
- Hobbs’ MXT
- 3 straight pieces
- 1 Power Zone track piece
- 6 90º curved track pieces
- 12 guardrails
- 2 riser pieces
- 4-car charging platform
- Tyre cleaner

Coming in September, here'd the official blurb:
"Anki OVERDRIVE pits you against Artificially Intelligent Supercars in a pulse-pounding game of speed and strategy. And starting this autumn, gameplay is about to get even more furious. This special edition brings the Fast & Furious crew into the world of Anki OVERDRIVE. Drive Dom’s Ice Charger or Hobbs’ MXT, race against characters from the films, and build more excitement into your track with a new exclusive track piece."

Anki supported this video including access to the toys and office.