Are you able to survive the street to hell?

We’ve seen numerous driving video games through the years, however for essentially the most half, their gameplay focuses on racing, demolition derbies, or navigating a big open world map. Pacific Drive is a brand new run-based, first-person driving survival recreation, the debut title from Seattle-based Ironwood Studios. The builders behind this new venture have labored on classics like Ratchet & Clank, Mortal Kombat, Name of Obligation, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and plenty of extra. Pacific Drive was revealed right now in the course of the PlayStation State of Play, and featured a heart-pounding drive by means of darkish, desolate woods. It appears there’s a thriller afoot, and the one option to determine it out is to drive in direction of it.

“Your automotive is your solely companion as you navigate a surreal and anomaly-filled reimagining of the Pacific Northwest,” says the outline on the recreation’s official web site. “Structured as a ‘road-like,’ every tour into the wilderness brings distinctive and unusual challenges, as you restore and improve your automotive from an deserted storage that acts as your own home base. With the automotive as your lifeline, you’ll unravel a long-forgotten thriller as you make your option to the center of the Olympic Exclusion Zone.”

Whereas a lot of Pacific Drive stays a thriller, I’ve to confess that this is without doubt one of the most original premises I’ve seen at these recreation showcases as of late. Authorities secrets and techniques, spooky monsters, and a few form of supernatural climate phenomenon? Appears to be like like a recipe for a basic, edge-of-your-seat journey. I’m normally fairly dangerous at driving mechanics in video games, so I feel I’ll most likely have to brush up a bit earlier than Pacific Drive lastly releases.

Pacific Drive will likely be coming to PlayStation 5 and PC someday in 2023. Till then, I’ll be looking out for any extra updates, as a result of that is actually one I’ll be trying ahead to.