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dkirschner's Wreckfest (PC)
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| [July 18, 2021 08:50:17 AM]
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Demolition Derby on PS1 was one of my favorite games. I've always wanted another demolition derby game. The Burnout series had elements of it, but it was great for other reasons too. But pure demolition derby is something I'd never seen again. So I was intrigued by Wreckfest, which promised lots of crashing and destruction.
The short of it is that while Wreckfest does have some demolition derby, wrecking actually isn't the game's focus. You'll spend far more time (in the career mode at least) racing. The good news is that the racing is consistently entertaining, but the bad news is that it gets extremely repetitive. In career mode, you earn points by completing events, and use those points to purchase and upgrade your cars. As you increase the class of cars and reach milestones of points, you move to the next league, where you just do the same thing to get to the next league. Do this through five leagues, each of which takes longer to beat than the previous one.
In the leagues, there are different types of events. The best, obviously, are the destruction derby ones or any other one-off weird event like trying to outrun a bunch of lunatic school buses with a three-wheeled van (and you win a school bus if you beat them...which I never managed!). Let's say that you need 2500 points to complete the league. The most fun events are always 100 or 200 points. You don't get points for repeating events either, so you've got to do most of the ones available. Want to get up to 600 or 800 points in an event? Well, you'll have to race. While destruction derbies are one heat, the race events are often somewhat grueling series of like 6 or 8 races, sometimes with 6 laps per race. And like I said, these just get longer the higher the league. So, you will spent FAR more time racing than running into people. Sure, you can wreck other cars during races, but the goal is to come in first. And some race tracks are really geared toward destruction--those are the best--but most are just races around tracks.
All this is to say that the game's emphasis on paper is spot on, but in practice, it's off. I made it through four of the five leagues, and you can see just what I mean about the career mode getting repetitive. On Game Pass, only 2.05% of players finished the fourth league and 3.66% finished the third league. The vast majority bailed after a short time in career mode. They probably went online, like I eventually did, to crash into real people. Online has some wild tracks! Why aren't these in the career mode?! I've spent a couple fun evenings with it, but just as often there is practically no one online to play with, which is really disappointing! I'm probably a bit late to the party as this came out a few years ago. But, I enjoyed my time with Wreckfest, both online and off. It kind of scratched the demolition derby itch, but I'd rather play Burnout. It did get me looking at other racing games and I discovered Forza Horizon, which sounds up my alley. Maybe I'll try that soon!
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dkirschner's Wreckfest (PC)
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Current Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored
GameLog started on: Wednesday 16 June, 2021
GameLog closed on: Sunday 18 July, 2021 |
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