Upgrades to vehicles can substantially alter the handling, whether it's through better performance or a stronger chassis that's better at taking damage. Some are heavier and more sluggish, while others are lighter and can corner better but suffer more in collisions. Tires slip and slide through the dirt but scream for grip on the tarmac, and you can almost feel them flexing as the car rolls through the corners.Įach type of car, from the hulking school bus all the way down to the miniature two-door Killerbee, feels different to drive. The transition between different road surfaces is sublime, and regardless of whether you're driving with a top-of-the-line racing wheel or a gamepad, the sensation of sliding around a corner, catching the rear end, and gassing it all the way out feels superb. When you do manage to escape the chaos and settle into a good driving rhythm, Wreckfest shows off some wonderful driving physics. But while this kind of repetition would normally be grating, the act of racing is so good that it takes the edge off. There's no rewinding time to fix your mistakes, either you'll need to restart the race if it all goes south. A bad landing off a jump could destroy your suspension and send you into a wall of concrete that shatters spectacularly upon impact, and that's your race done. Longer races become tests of survival, as all it takes is one bad collision to put a car out of contention (or at least change how it handles). But with realistic conditions, things get a lot tougher and a bit more spectacular too. On normal, you and your opponents can survive more than your fair share of hard hits, making heavy impacts much more forgiving. Landing a perfectly timed swipe that puts an opponent into the path of an oncoming car and watching the resulting destruction behind you looks just as great as slamming a school bus into a pack of Minis.ĭamage in Wreckfest has two settings: normal and realistic. Each mode not only offers some variety in destruction but is also visually spectacular in its own right. There's also the occasional lawnmower derby, which shows off the game's slightly twisted sense of humor.
Other event types include demolition derbys, where you try to turn your opponents' cars into cubes of twisted steel by smashing into them as hard as you can, and elimination-style heat races that normally take place on a closed figure eight track or an oval. It can be spectacular to watch from a distance when tailing a pack of cars or during a replay, but equally brutal when you're the one involved in it. They're also where the game's marquee destruction engine shows off its capabilities as cars fly off the course through wooden fences and tire barriers, sending debris scattering into the air and across the road.
Race starts are a gorgeous, chaotic mess that can feel like running a gauntlet as cars jostle and barge for position. Most career events are a simple race to the finish where you'll have a handful of laps to hunt down the opposition and score as good a position as possible, giving you a chance to serve up mayhem while slicing through the field. In addition to XP, rewards are doled out regularly in the form of performance parts along with credits to buy new cars and parts with, so even a poor finish, which will happen, never feels like wasted time.
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Wreckfest's career mode is made up of five different championships, each consisting of various events-from multi-race championships to one-off demolition derbys-that each gradually unlock as you gain XP and increase your driver level. Wreckfest succeeds where it matters, becoming one of the most surprising and gratifying racing games of the year. Showing off its impressive soft-body collision system that lets colliding cars twist and crush with brutal realism and some fierce AI, every event is brimming with satisfaction. After a four-year stint in Steam's early access, Wreckfest has hit the track with surprising confidence. If there's anything to be learned from a game like Wreckfest, it's that thrashing around old bangers, running opponents into concrete barriers, and threading the needle between a group of crashing cars can, even in 2018, be brilliantly fun.
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