By Kieron Gillen on September 15th, 2009 at 11:36 am.
This demo accelerated out of – er – wherever demos accelerate from in – er – the recent past (“Yesterday”). It’s a truck-based racing-with-guns chaos thing and is out in a couple of days time. Is it any good? Well, that’s why they released this 600Mb-or-so demo. Go have a nose. To get a taste, you’ll find the trailer Jim linked to (and was mean about) beneath the cut…
15/09/2009 at 12:00 poop says:
this game really grinds my gears!!
15/09/2009 at 12:18 kikito says:
optimus prime ftw rofl
15/09/2009 at 12:20 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
That looks so insanely geeky…man, meh want. Trucks with guns, helicopters, cockpit view AND PC only? Wow, just wow…
15/09/2009 at 12:33 ZIGS says:
I noticed the game is very slow, hopefully, you’ll be able to fix this with upgrades and stuff like that. Otherwise the gameplay is pretty solid
15/09/2009 at 12:56 Simon Jones says:
I love that the rainbow is an actual physical item in the world that you drive past. Brilliant.
15/09/2009 at 12:57 hydra9 says:
I like what I’ve played, though yep, there’s not a huge feeling of speed at this point, and the default guns are pretty weak (Upgrades will help on both counts). The in-cab view gives me warm fuzzy memories of Quarantine. And it’s ridiculous fun to do the mission where your character gets pissed off and has to work off his anger by driving headlong into any innocent motorists he sees. Pro Tip: The game looks so much better if you turn off a couple of the blur and haze-type settings.
15/09/2009 at 13:19 fulis says:
Reminds me of an old game called Ignition
Anyone remember that?
15/09/2009 at 13:24 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
Yep, I still have Ignition somewhere… it was fun to drive with the school bus and hear the kids screaming…crazy stuff
15/09/2009 at 13:30 Michael says:
Played a preview-copy some time ago and well… nothing special about this one. Clutch (from the same developers) was more fun and it had zombies. still Gear Grinder was kinda boring. Some of you may know it under the name “Sledgehammer” as it has been released in russia about 1 or 2 years ago.
15/09/2009 at 13:30 duel says:
looks like a mod of flatout2. One where they have added guns.
15/09/2009 at 15:22 James says:
Minor gripe: any chance you could state on posts, preferably at the outset, what format/s the game you’re talking about is for? It would make the site and RSS infinitely more easy to read for those of us a little pushed for time. Thank you.
15/09/2009 at 15:24 Alec Meer says:
There’s a very big clue as to what format each and every game we write about is on. I wonder if you can find it.
15/09/2009 at 15:42 James says:
Post eh
15/09/2009 at 15:51 Ben Abraham says:
For those of you a little pushed for time – check out the RPS banner tag-line “PC Gaming since 1873″.
15/09/2009 at 15:55 bill says:
Looks like (a not so good) interstate 76
15/09/2009 at 16:17 James says:
“For those of you a little pushed for time – check out the RPS banner tag-line “PC Gaming since 1873″.”
My bad. Strike me from the record.
15/09/2009 at 16:21 James says:
Though I suppose a Windows/linux clarification couldn’t hurt ;)
15/09/2009 at 16:37 shiggz says:
Remember “Hard Truck: Apocalypse”
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/apocalypticwars/index.html
IMO it started pretty fun but then quickly made all the same mistakes as Far Cry 2 did recently.
15/09/2009 at 18:21 Hodge says:
@James A thousand Mac users died inside when they read your comment.
That trailer just makes me want to watch Duel again.
15/09/2009 at 18:36 hydra9 says:
@shiggz:
It’s from the same developer. And while it’s a flawed game, it’s also one I have a lot of affection for :)
16/09/2009 at 12:25 maple story hack says:
Nice one, I will try it’s demo version soon.