Three Fields Leisure are accountable for many video games with “harmful” of their title: Harmful Driving, Hazard Zone, and Harmful Golf. However now they have a brand new racing sport within the works which eschews their earlier naming conference for one thing that’ll make you say with a wry smile and a shake of the top, “I see what you probably did there”. It is referred to as Wreckreation (you realize, like ‘recreation’, not Wreck-reaction, or Wreck–eation) and its reveal trailer appears a bit like if Burnout and Scorching Wheels went for a joyride collectively.
Not an enormous shock, actually, contemplating Three Fields are largely comprised of former Burnout and Want For Velocity devs, however Wreckreation undoubtedly has the stylings of Criterion’s basic racer. You’ve got acquired muscle automobiles zooming round crashing into one another, then doing the entire slow-mo “Takedown” of yore, the place you see the automobile clatter astray for a quick second or two. The racing? Yeah, it appears as anticipated, ditching realism for tight cornering and explosive arcade-style pace.
And then you definitely’ve acquired the world – 400 sq. kilometres of freeform sandbox racing – which is how the sport makes an attempt to distinguish itself from the competitors. You will oversee your individual MixWorld, an enormous map that you simply’re capable of jazz up with loops, jumps, and different obstacles like windmills and *checks notes* geese the dimensions of a gasoline station. And it appears such as you’re free to plonk them wherever, both creating elaborate Scalextric units within the sky or offroad impediment programs.
Judging by the transient trailer and tidbits of information on the sport, it appears enjoyable! It has a number of customisation choices from paint colors, glass colors and engine sounds, and it additionally has its personal FM radio dial with 16 completely different channels to choose from (or your individual Spotify Premium playlists if you happen to favor). The promise of blasting by means of participant created programs additionally has me cautiously excited. I simply must see extra, actually, and whether or not constructing utilizing its free digital camera view is straightforward and intuitive. Whether or not you are capable of peruse different individuals’s stuff with out it being a faff, or share my creations with others in a jiffy. If it will get these kinds of technicalities proper, then I reckon we’ll be in for a deal with.
There’s at present no launch date for Wreckreation, however you possibly can sustain with it over on Steam.