Wreckfest

Wreckfest — a dynamic racing action game with a third-person view from the creators of the original FlatOut (2004). In the game, you will control a car in a special arena where the main goal is to destroy your opponent by creating spectacular crash situations. The game offers a large number of cars, including both European and American models. Additionally, you can smash cars with friends in multiplayer mode.

Wreckfest is a survival racing simulator offering exciting gameplay with cars flying apart, many modes, a career, and multiplayer. It continues the ideas of Destruction Derby and FlatOut (2010) but on a modern level.

Compared to beta versions, the final build of Wreckfest pleased players with good graphics and almost perfect car physics, earning 85% positive reviews on Steam.

Wreckfest is a long-term project by Bugbear Entertainment, announced in August 2013 under the working title Next Car Game, and released for PC on June 14, 2018.

The developers failed to raise money for the game's development on Kickstarter, so they released an alpha version in Steam Early Access. The project caused a sensation and gained a large fan base, giving Bugbear the funds for development. At the end of 2016, it was announced that the game would be released for PS4 and Xbox One, with the release taking place on November 20, 2018.

Wreckfest gained fame for its realistic visualization of car destruction in crashes and collisions, thanks to detailed car models and deep physics calculations.

Each car has several groups of characteristics determining its condition: body damage, engine condition, transmission, gearbox, and handling, as well as overall health. Each parameter affects the gameplay.

The game features more than 50 different types of cars: passenger and off-road, rally and everyday, powerful and maneuverable, or balanced. There are no licensed cars, but there are similar replicas that motorsport fans can easily recognize.

For fun, Wreckfest includes a fire truck, a truck, a combine harvester, and school and city buses. Choosing them, the player changes the victory tactic from racing to ramming, creating chaos on the road and hindering others from driving normally.

There is no mini-map during the race, so you have to evaluate the track yourself, guess the trajectory and turns. All knocked-off parts, pieces of cars, and their remains stay on the track. Most races involve 24 cars.

Tuning is available, determining four basic settings — suspension stiffness, gearbox range, differential position, and brake balance.

Wreckfest uses a realistic physics model, but many cars have a high center of gravity, making them practically uncontrollable. A car can bounce from a small bump or "slip" on a puddle of water, causing it to swerve in any direction. There is no nitrous oxide in the game.

The game has four main modes and several additional ones:

Кампания предлагает выиграть 5 чемпионатов, которые проведут игрока от новичка до профи мирового уровня, и предлагают 10 разных гонок в каждом чемпионате. Мультиплеер организован проще — достаточно выбрать желаемый режим, после чего игра сама найдет лобби и выберет карту.

Зарабатывая за каждую победу деньги, игрок приобретает новые автомобили для своего гаража, прокачивает и тюнингует авто. За участие в гонке и агрессивное поведение на трассе дают очки опыта, который идет в копилку новых уровней. Чем выше уровень, тем больше авто, деталей и других элементов прокачки будет открыто.

В мультиплеере можно задать настройки, регулирующие правила заезда — для любителей честных гонок или для тех, кто хочет устроить трэш: поехать в другую сторону, чтобы сбить правильных гонщиков и просто шарахаться из стороны в сторону, встречая каждого игрока лобовым ударом.