#Wreckfest reviews full#

You can build an absolute tank with every armour upgrade, costing you speed and cornering. Each one has a selection of paint styles, visual changes, armour, and engine upgrades. The unlicensed cars look suitably crusty. There’s no purity of racing lines and top end performance here, and the way you approach a track will depend on a delightfully chaotic blend of factors. The way Wreckfest forces you to approach everything about racing differently gives the most standard tracks an exciting twist. I enjoyed the standard races much more than I expected to. Lastly, there are special challenges involving unique vehicles including a lawnmower derby and a school bus race. Races are the more traditional, frequent events. Derbies are muddy death pits where you wreck other drivers, in a last man standing kind of deal or a deathmatch mode. There’s a selection of events split into the three categories that make up Wreckfest. You aren’t obligated to finish the career mode unless you want all of the unlockable vehicles.

A welcome feature is that single-player custom races will contribute to both as well. You escalate through tiers of events and vehicles to earn cash and experience.

#Wreckfest reviews full#

Wreckfest now includes a full career mode similar to those in most racing sims. It’s been a long four years for Bugbear, but they’ve finally unleashed their destructive delight. They’ve taken their time with development after bringing Next Car Game (as it was originally titled) to Early Access in 2014. Bugbear has lovingly crafted a racing sim following almost entirely in the footsteps of their own FlatOut series. Wreckfest brings us tyres-blazing back to the under-represented demolition derby style of racing.