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Next Car Game [Review of the game]

Guys, let’s help Stopgame pay attention to the fact that the game is now officially called Wreckfest. This is not her “second name”, but the main. Of course, many can still remember this game as NEXT CAR GAME, but now this name will only remain in the memory of fans. Well, the release date of the game is not defined. Of course, we can say that with getting into early access, the game already count that you have come out (someone somewhere, I don’t remember where, said well: “You can get the game from early access, but you cannot get out early access from the game”), but all the same. And, the game also has a publisher, ThQ Nordic Call.

All with this finished.

The next car game

Wreckfest – This is a long -suffering game in the genre of survival races from BugBear Entertainment. These guys are primarily known for a series of games Flatout And Wreckfest is a formal heir to this series. At least because of this fact the game is worth paying attention, but that if you don’t even know what it is Flatout? I will try to answer you to this question.

To begin, perhaps, this game has been in development for more than 5 years, and only a year ago it looked different at all and had some gameplay details, which were later cut out by developers, apparently due to the fact that they greatly complicated the game. And, honestly, what they proposed in return, I like it more.

The main feature of this game is a model of car damage. Its peculiarity is that, unlike other quite popular races, the car is deformed not according to the given templates, but what depends on where and what side was made with the object.

In the screenshots you see a game with low graphics settings. The game actually looks much prettier, but not with me.

Unfortunately, it should be noted that now this aspect of the game looks like the most unfinished. The fact that the car can be literally turned into an incomprehensible something is commendable, but now if you crash with sufficient force, for example, from the driver’s side, then not only the body and doors of the car, but also the steering wheel, the frame (if there is, but more on that) and the driver himself in addition. And not so much “dropped” as “stretch”. It looks unnatural, funny and sad at the same time … And the wheels are generally a separate topic for conversation with developers.

In other way, if the games of the series Flatout nonukcasinosites.co.uk/casinos-not-on-gamban/ They are quite frivolous, one might even say, “fan” arcade races, then Wreckfest – its complete opposite. Fan can also be obtained from the game, but here it manifests itself in steep accidents and in fact that you can finish the race on something remarkably reminiscent of the car. Otherwise, the game looks like a very serious race, starting with the fact that the races themselves take place on legal racing tracks and ending with the departure of the game in the home of the simulator. Damn, but there is not even nitro-accelerator in the game (so far).

Nevertheless, cars on the track behave well, these are not ironing on ice, and not cars from Dirt Rally, requiring addiction and thin settings for themselves and the track, this is something average, and this is good.

At the moment, the game has two game modes: Races and derby. They, in turn, are divided into several separates, but we will be honest, most of the players will play here only in the classic race and Last Man Standing in Derby. Unless Deathmatch may still be interesting, due to the fact that after the destruction of the car you are allowed to return to battle. Other variations, such as a team race and command Deathmatch, is purely for an amateur.

Each race or match in the arena brings the player experience and money. Experience increases your level in the game, which in turn gives access to new cars and details for tuning, and money allows you to buy these same machines and details.

The fleet in the game is made in the spirit of the first Flatout. Each car is old, dented and battered (and without headlights, this is important!). They are also divided into three classes, depending on power, but car tuning allows the car in all classes. So the class C (the slowest) after complete tuning of internal details can compete even with class A cars (the fastest), which cannot but rejoice.

You can also change the car not only in terms of its running characteristics, but also externally (which, however, also affects the same characteristics). Local customization of cars is quite extensive. You can not only change the wheels, bumpers, hood, spoiler at the car, but even put an enhanced frame, change the frontal, radiator grill or even remove everything that does not allow it to drive faster than a bicycle.
It is worth warning that at the moment not all cars are available for all customization options.

You can also paint cars, for this you even made a pale of flowers, but there are not so many options for car coloring at the moment. By the way, the current options are far from the first in the game. The developers changed the sets several times, removing the previous ones, and I would actually want all of them to return back to the game.

Subjectivity

Now let’s move on to the minuses that the game has at the moment. Firstly, this is an interface. It seems that the developer already has experience in creating a convenient and understandable interface for racing (we take the same Flatout) but what they did here at the moment not to describe in good words … In the main menu, the choice of a car and different tuning points have been divided for some reason, as a result of which if you want to improve a specific car, but in the races you participated on another, then you first need to go to your car choice, choose the necessary car, then get out of it and choose the necessary tuning or customization point. It’s not too comfortable ..
Further, the choice of the race in the « Completed Zeal ». Here, first you are offered to choose a location, then the option of a track or arena, then you need to choose a mode, configure the difficulty and start the race. Here, the player, who only enters the game for the first time, already at the first paragraph may have difficulties, because he is not in the know on what locations there are derby, but on which races.
I will not say “how could you do better”, this is quite obvious if you played in the above series or any other race with similar opportunities in the menu. And yes, you can get to understand all this and you can get used to it, but the sediment from the first impressions will remain.

The problems of the interface do not end there and I hope that it will become much better by the full release than now, but let’s go to something less critical. There are no complaints about the sound, to music too, but the fact that music does not play about the time of the race makes this race a little … boring. Yes, the game is played much more vigorously if you turn on some vigorous track against the background. Peppy tracks are in Wreckfest, But they play literally before clicking on the « Start » button.

Long -way to the finish

What else can I tell about this game … Yes, probably nothing more. These are races – games whose concept does not change from their birth. There is no point in saying something about the gameplay. Here is the car, here is the track, here are the rivals, the task is to come first, and in this case, still not to break the car to a deplorable state. All further depends on the skills of the driver. In the case of derby, the task is to survive.

In fact, I wanted to write about the game more positive, but it turned out that even its most important element, I managed to trample the mud with facts. But I personally like this game. Wreckfest – This is the first, in a long time, the race in which I want to play more than a couple of hours. This is eventually the ideological heir to the cult series, which is bent into 3 parts (Flatout 4 – This is just an attempt to stir up a corpse). Yes, not even the heir, Wreckfest – This is what the first should be Flatout. All those ideas that Bugbear could not be implemented in 2004, they tried to realize now. Yes, here even a track from an early prototype Flatout there is, not to mention some cars.

I sincerely believe in this project. I follow him almost from his very appearance on Kickstarter In 2013. I know about all significant changes in the game that have occurred in it since its launch in early access. They are enough for a separate blog. And yes, there was an option where in the middle of the text I would insert the opening spoiler with the history of development, but so far I am too lazy for such things.

This is what the main menu of the game a year ago looked like. As you can see, it was very similar to some menu from conditionally free games about tanks. Some opportunities could also hint that the game could become F2P. So in the game there was an opportunity to hire and pump the teams of mechanics, and the details of the tuning could wear out and they had to either be repaired for repair points, or replace it with new ones for the game currency. It was these mechanics that were cut out of the game in June 2017.

Damn, it turns out some kind of half-outlet-pole-blog already, let me finish.

In general, on Wreckfest It is worth paying attention. Yes, the main thing the element selling the game looks “unnatural”, but this is the best that you can see in a full -fledged game (it is better only in Beamng.Drive, but this is not so much a game as a techno-demo engine of the game, like Sneak Peak u Wreckfest respectively). Only 2 modes in fact, but so far even I can’t come up with something new in such a genre, and even more or less serious. And career, customization, interface, music in races – all this can be finished with release. The game is now being developed by a rapid pace, which made it clear that the presence of the publisher sometimes has a good effect on the development at least.

On this I will probably finish. Play Wreckfest, Make your opinion, write it in the comments, Subni … Oh, sorry, it was not there. Good luck and good games, gentlemen and ladies, and I will go, make my Roadslayer something that is not like Roadslayer.