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Wreckfest ps5 review1/6/2024 Previously, I’ve only dabbled with Wreckfest and that’s because it was on the Xbox Gamepass program. Yeah, I never really got into GT Sport and for that very reason. Destruction is welcome and encouraged, with fun being the order of the day, not “sporting behaviour” like in GT Sport, where the slightest nudge of a fellow player will get you a voice message from a middle-aged man about how to play the game properly. Instead, it’s a place where arseholes like me can prosper. Wreckfest is not a gentleman’s game, not by any stretch. For more information on scoring, please read our Review Policy.Wreckfest has been given a next-gen update and it’s being doled out as an exclusive to PS Plus members. Wreckfest review code provided by publisher. It awes with flying debris, but rarely exhilarates. The destruction is technically impressive, but oddly distancing. If this component is solid at launch, though, it could give Wreckfest legs (or, ahem, wheels?) in the months after release.īut, for now, Wreckfest just doesn’t live up to the promise of its name. There are a variety of multiplayer options for fans of racing and demolition, however, as I was playing during the pre-release period, I couldn’t find a match in any of them. This is fun, but not nearly enough to keep me returning to the game. Of course, you can always just play the demolition derby sections over and over again, setting up custom matches on custom courses. Between the driving and the loads, playing Wreckfest feels substantially more sluggish than a racing game should. And, on a handful of occasions, these load screens went from long to infinite, forcing me to close the game and start it up again. I routinely sat through minute-long loads as I waited for a race to start. Not the racing itself, but the portions in between races. Problems for the Pit CrewĪdditionally, on PS4 at least, Wreckfest is slowed down by technical issues. More than one crash was caused by an obstinate camera that refused to allow me to see what was coming next. You can’t nudge your view up as you careen down a steep hill or slightly to the left as you take a hairpin turn. While you’ll control your perspective with the right thumbstick, as usual, moving it switches the view entirely, to the front or to the side. Maybe that’s a personal preference? But, other aspects of Wreckfest’s controls make it difficult to navigate its courses, even if you do like the way it feels to accelerate and brake. Compared to the fast, dangerous driving in a game like Grand Theft Auto V-where you constantly feel like you’re on the edge of disaster- Wreckfest feels like it’s underwater. The cars never really feel like they’re going very fast, even at top speed. The problem is that, as cool as “Demolition Racing” sounds, actually driving rarely feels good. Wrecked cars become damage-causing obstacles on subsequent laps. Boundaries-whether constructed of stacks of tires or wooden slats-fly apart when cars drive through them. The destruction is still impressive here. Each car has a visible health bar and can be taken out with repeated ramming. Many of the rules of the demolition derby still apply. And, unfortunately, it asks players to spend the majority of their time in Career mode engaging with it in this way. Wreckfest is less successful as a racing game. By the time a match ends, you’ll be swerving around the steaming wreckage of dozens of your vanquished opponents. But, these battles become a war of attrition. In a car or other larger vehicle, you’re significantly safer. To wreck a lawnmower, you just need to flip it and knocking an opponent over is always satisfying but you need to watch your flanks because you’re just as vulnerable. Whatever vehicle you pilot, using it to destroy each and every competitor is a good time. These demolition derbies are the star of the show. Wreckfest contains two very different modes: a racing mode (that essentially feels like the NASCAR Heat series but with tracks that demand turns in directions other than left), and a demolition mode that allows players to smash vehicles into other vehicles. And, at times, it delivers (with excellent destruction and physics along the way)! But, all too often, the game Bugbear Entertainment has produced feels sluggish, fiddly, and unrewarding. But, in execution, Wreckfest just doesn’t fully live up to the colorful weirdness of its premise.
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