Microsoft's Zone service as well as the GameSpy Arcade were alternate ways to play this game online.
On consoles the game is played via split screen, while on PC one can play the game via TCP/IP online or in your local network. The player limit on the console versions is four players, while the PC version allows for up to twelve player races. Single Races are just like the races in single player mode, with the computer players being replaced by human players. Your position on the map is given away on the other players' HUD as long as the star is in your possession. Other players can take the star away from you by bumping into you. The winner is the player who manages to keep the star until his or her timer runs out. Every player has a countdown timer, and when one player has possession of the star, the timer counts down. The goal in this mode is to obtain a star, which is placed on the map.
In Battle Tag mode you start in one of four Arenas, which are reworked versions of the single player maps. The multiplayer mode in Re-Volt consists of two modes, Single Race and Battle Tag. This has led to the other cars being completely ignored for the purposes of competitive multiplayer. In multiplayer matches and overall, Toyeca has the best combination of speed and handling, and is unquestionably the best car to use.
While there is a large variety of cars in the game, one car is particularly notable for being the best, namely the Pro car Toyeca. For instance in order to unlock all of the Advanced Cars, a player must complete the Silver Championship, find all of the practice stars in the new tracks in the championship, and place first in a single race on each one. As one completes challenges for specific levels of tracks, new cars are unlocked. Re-Volt has thirty-four cars (not counting custom cars) in the PC version of the game, all with different attributes and sorted into five classes, Rookie, Amateur, Advanced, Semi-Pro, and Pro. Every player uses the same small, very light, wind-up car. In Clockwork Carnage, the player races against twenty-nine other AI opponents. There are twenty stars hidden throughout the map, and the Clockwork Carnage mode is unlocked when all of the stars have been collected. The stunt arena is a map exclusive to this mode, and features a loop, many jumps, and a large halfpipe. By attaining these challenge times, players unlock new cars. This mode gives the player a set challenge lap time to beat. Collecting these stars unlocks more vehicles. There is a star hidden in a hard-to-reach location of each level.
In this mode, there are no opponents or obstacles, and the player is free to drive around the track at his or her leisure. In this mode you can drive the tracks reverse, mirrored or both at the same time against the computer AI. Each victory in a championship unlocks new cars and the next set of tracks. There are four different championships to beat: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Although you have a fixed number of laps to race you are allowed to choose the difficulty of the game. The player completes multiple races in order to unlock the next three tracks, earning points towards a total based on their finishing position in each race. The game features six different single player game modes: Championship Like many similar games, there were powerups your car could collect to either give yourself an advantage or slow down an opponent. Re-Volt is a racing game in which players take control of a variety of remote controlled cars (24 in total) and race them on 14 tracks featuring realistic environments such as museums, toy stores, gardens, and suburban neighborhoods.