Driving across the Pacific Northwest in a beat-up station wagon may not sound like a typical videogame energy fantasy, however Pacific Drive has fairly a bit extra up its sleeve. The run-based survival sport, which first debuted on the PlayStation State of Play stream in September final yr, has a brand new trailer out now that gives a greater sense of what this STALKER-inspired street journey by the irradiated forests of the Olympic Exclusion Zone has in retailer for us later this yr.
Pacific Drive is an upcoming PC sport set in Washington’s Olympic peninsula, a landmass coated principally in wilderness that sits throughout Puget Sound from Seattle. In Pacific Drive, it’s turn into a harmful exclusion zone following a mysterious catastrophe brought on by a secretive organisation referred to as ARDA. Now it’s stuffed with radiation and STALKER-inspired ‘anomalies’ that may take the type of hostile balls of scrap steel, menacing pillars of soil, and a large climate phenomenon referred to as the ‘Zone Storm’ that annihilates something in its path.
Every run in Pacific Rim has you venturing out into the exclusion zone in your trusty station wagon, which supplies some extent of safety from the hazards of the zone. On the market, you’ll discover scraps, elements, and new supplies to make use of again at your storage to restore and improve the automotive.
The zone modifications every time you head out, although, and also you’ll need to improvise: the station wagon can take a little bit of a beating, however solely a lot. You’ll must scrounge for elements from deserted gasoline stations, automobiles, and no matter else you discover on the market.
You possibly can’t sit nonetheless too lengthy, although, since you’ll entice the eye of anomalies – and ultimately, you’ll have to flee the damaging energy of the zone storm itself.
Happily, you’ll have the ability to analysis customisations in your automotive that improve its sturdiness and permit it to get you into areas that had been inaccessible at first.
There’s lots happening within the trailer: shades of Twin Peaks, Stranger Issues, STALKER, Alan Wake, and perhaps even a little bit of Forza are all on show.
Developer Ironwood Studios says the Pacific Drive launch date shall be someday this yr, and you may head to Steam to pop it in your wishlist now. You may also wish to try a few of the greatest racing video games on PC to ensure your driving expertise are on top of things.
