Trike Wars

Motor tricycles round the barangay at midnight on New Year's Eve, grabbing fireworks from crates and firing them across the streets. One hit flips any trike. Flipped drivers are back on their wheels two seconds later at the edge of the neighborhood, and the player with the most knockouts when the clock strikes midnight takes the win.

Grabbing and firing fireworks

• Drive over any wooden crate on the street to grab a firework. A slot in the corner rolls through your options and lands on your weapon.
• Q fires whatever firework you carry. Hold reverse alone while pressing Fire to shoot behind you.
• Flipped trikes return after two seconds with brief protection drawn as a glowing shield. Firing ends your own protection immediately.
• In the final ten seconds before midnight, all knockouts count double points.

Driving and drifting

• Steer with your heading. Up accelerates, down brakes and reverses.
• Hold reverse while turning at speed to drift. Your tyres smoke and lay skid marks as your tail slides out. Hold the drift to charge up, then let go for a burst of speed.
• Hold B or the eye button to glance over your shoulder and watch who is following you down the road.
• Space or the horn button rings your trike's bell.
• Hold E to spend your Boost bar for a burst of speed. The bar refills over time, charging faster whenever you fall behind the leader.

The fireworks

• Rocket (kwitis): Locks on to the nearest rival ahead with a red targeting ring, then steers through turns to chase them down.
• Firecracker belt (Judas belt): Rapid-fire crackers that track along your target's line. Five pops within three seconds flip a trike.
• Pinwheel (trompillo): Three spinning fireworks circle your trike. They flip any rival you ram, and each charge can absorb an incoming rocket or cracker before bursting.
• Big bomb (Goodbye Philippines): Lobs a sticky bomb that fastens to a rival's roof. Pass it on by ramming another trike before the fuse detonates.
• Bamboo cannon (kanyon kawayan): Blasts a wide fan in front of your handlebars, knocking out anyone close and shoving those further back.
• Mine (trianggulo): Sits armed on the asphalt, flipping anyone who rolls over it.
• Snappers (watusi): Scatters crackling poppers that cause any passing trike to spin out.
• Spark turbo (luces): Blazes invulnerability and maximum speed, flipping any vehicle you touch.
• Shield: Deploys a protective dome that repels attacks for several seconds.