Wreckreation has been introduced by THQ Nordic and Three Fields Leisure, an open world racer the place you possibly can construct and create audacious, over-the-top tracks and circuits within the sandbox atmosphere. Evidently that is the brand new identify for Harmful Driving 2…
Wreckreation will likely be coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
Wreckreation takes place in MixWorld, a 400km2 open world setting that mixes racing with creation. The ‘dwell combine’ lets you construct and alter your racing monitor whilst you’re racing on it, and whereas there’s pals in the identical area as you. And it’s not simply boring outdated race tracks which can be sure by the bounds of actuality and physics. You possibly can drop audacious loops, ramps into the world, construct up into the heavens with race monitor that arcs by way of the sky, and throw all method of loopy props into the combination as nicely.
As a creation-based racer, Wreckreation will likely be constructing on a well-known feeling template for followers of video games like ModNation Racers, Trackmania, and even Grand Theft Auto On-line, however this will likely be customized constructed across the concept of creation inside a web-based open world (GTA On-line has all that heisting and capturing happening as nicely).
Right here’s the breakdown for what it presents from Steam:
- Combine Up The Leaderboards – Set information in seven alternative ways wherever and everytime you drive on each avenue in your MixWorld: Drift, Air, Close to Miss, Stunt, Crash, and the extra conventional, Time.
- Combine My World – An enormous, open world that’s yours to find and design. Place jumps, loops, half pipes, transferring obstacles, and extra virtually anyplace in your MixWorld. Not even the sky is the restrict!
- Combine My Automobile – Paint colours, finishes, wheels, increase flames, engine sounds, glass colours, tires, guide or stick – you identify it, you possibly can customise it. Every part will likely be obtainable from the start.
- Combine My Music – Radio stations are the unsung heroes of racing video games. Take heed to 16 completely different channels and get updates out of your MixWorld or stream your individual playlists instantly from Spotify.
- Combine All Modes – Whether or not it’s a easy race or a group stunt occasion the place catching probably the most air and touchdown the primary barrel roll will deliver factors to your group, you management the gameplay in your world.
- Combine It All – Within the MixWorld you could be a god! Management the climate, time of day and the site visitors! Discover vacancies and construct buildings that influence your world past their basis. The ability is yours.
The sport is coming from Three Fields Leisure, the studio based by Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward after their departure from Criterion Video games in 2014. The pair had led Criterion Video games by way of the creation of their breakout hit Burnout and its sequels, in addition to the shift to the Want for Velocity franchise within the early 2010s, however when EA determined to downsize Criterion (a choice they ultimately backtracked on), Sperry and Ward went their very own approach and based Three Fields Leisure.
Since then, they’ve been increase by way of a string of more and more bold video games, beginning with the destruction-focussed Harmful Golf, following it up with the Burnout Crash Mode-styled Hazard Zone, and ultimately releasing a full arcade racer Harmful Driving in 2019. Final we heard, they have been engaged on Harmful Driving 2, an open world sequel, however plainly this was only a working title for what has develop into Wreckreation – definitely, their official Twitter account retweeted some speculating about exactly that.
Regardless, Wreckreation is by far and away their most bold recreation so far, taking their model of crash-tastic racing in a brand new course with consumer generated content material at its core.
Supply: press launch, Steam