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Wreckfest 2 announced with trailer abundant in fender-bending and newly rageful driversBugbear and THQ Nordic wheel out new take on Destruction Derbalikes
Bugbear and THQ Nordic wheel out new take on Destruction Derbalikes
Image credit:THQ Nordic
Image credit:THQ Nordic
Wreckfest 2 | Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Wreckfest 2 | Announcement Trailer
The game runs on a new version of developer Bugbear’s ROMU engine, which appears capable of more elaborate vehicular deformation effects - doors and exhaust pipes flapping loose, tyres unhooking and bounding away like rats fleeing a sinking ship that is actually a truck with a ludicrously elevated ride. It’s all enjoyably madcap, but I don’t get the sense the racing experience will differ excessively from the 2018 game, which John Walker (RPS in peace)thought was Top Work.
“There’s so much fun in this, and it manages to make failure an entertaining element of racing, which is a trick all too rarely pulled off,” he wrote. “Wreckfest is a splendid antidote to the po-faced severity of the current crop of Need For Speeds, Crews, and so on. It holds its own in that competition, while delivering something far more specifically its own.” I’d argue that Wreckfest 2 has less competition - both the Need For Speed series andThe Creware on the backburner, giving this juiced-up road-rager a clear run at our affections. Learn more of its wanton car abuse onSteam.
