Wreckfest

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

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

Compared to beta versions, the final build of Wreckfest pleased players with good graphics and nearly perfect car physics, which is why it received 85% positive reviews on Steam.

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

The developers were unable to raise funds for the game's development on Kickstarter, after which they released an alpha version in Steam's early access. The project created a sensation and gained a large fan base, allowing Bugbear to secure funding for development. At the end of 2016, it was announced that the game would be released for PS4 and Xbox One, with the release occurring on November 20, 2018.

Wreckfest gained fame for its realistic visualization of car destruction during crashes and collisions due to well-developed car models and deep physics calculations.

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

The game features more than 50 cars of various types: sedans and SUVs, rally and everyday cars, powerful and maneuverable, or balanced. There are no licensed cars, but there are similar replicas that motorsport fans can easily recognize as the originals.

For fun, Wreckfest includes a fire truck, a truck, a cleaning combine, school buses, and city buses. By choosing them, the player changes the victory tactic from racing to ramming, creating chaos on the road and disrupting others' normal driving.

There is no mini-map during the race, so you must assess the track yourself, guessing 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 present, defining four basic settings — suspension stiffness, gearbox travel, differential position, and brake balance.

Wreckfest uses a realistic physics model, but many cars have a high center of gravity, making them nearly uncontrollable. The car can jump due to a slight bump or "slip" on a puddle of water, after which it can be carried in any direction. There are no nitrous oxides in the game.

The game features four main modes and several additional ones:

The campaign offers to win 5 championships, which will take the player from a novice to a world-class pro, and offers 10 different races in each championship. Multiplayer is organized more simply — just choose your desired mode, after which the game will find a lobby and select a map.

Earning money for each victory, the player acquires new cars for their garage, upgrades, and tunes their vehicles. Points are awarded for participating in races and aggressive behavior on the track, which contribute to the accumulation of new levels. The higher the level, the more cars, parts, and other upgrade elements will be unlocked.

In multiplayer, you can set up rules for the race — for fans of fair racing or for those who want to create chaos: drive in the opposite direction to hit the right racers and just swerve back and forth, meeting each player with a head-on collision.