Eh, it's pretty good as a PS+ game. Something you can play for a few days, maybe a week and then get bored of. Maybe with constant updates it'll stay alive, but right now the gameplay is kinda shallow. Those days you are playing it's really fun though, the fast-paced actions and destructive crashes feel satisfying.
There's a colourful cast of characters to choose from, most of which have a very palpable unique personality, right down to their running animations. Having their own specific hero vehicles with their own super abilities is exactly what a game like this needs to give it just that little bit more variety every match.
At first I thought the out-of-vehicle parts were really pointless and just kinda filler to try and be unique, but they do have a bit of a strategic element to them. Do you spend time collecting shards to get your hero vehicle faster at the expense of not gaining points right away? And you might find a point multiplier too.
It's a pretty weird decision to only have 2 solo modes and 2 team modes, when they could have doubled that by making the solo modes playable in team and vis-versa. I mean mayhem is basically the main mode of the game and was what all the advertising seemed to show off, but it's only playable as a free-for-all.
I can't believe that when this isn't a PS+ game they're trying to sell it as a full priced game lmao. That doesn't affect my rating because it's not the games fault, but just as a company decision, Jesus.
Edit: It seems this was misinformation I found online. It isn't a full priced game.
It also locks the story mode behind damn microtransactions. Apparently they plan to put the premium currency as a reward in the game, but as of right now that's not an option. And it's a shame because each character's story helps flesh them out, even if it is basically just two cutscenes sandwiched between 7 special event matches. Those event matches are pretty neat though, types of gameplay style you can't find elsewhere in the game, including a Crazy Taxi inspired mission.
I'm hoping the game gets new updates fast, otherwise I don't know if I'll even be booting it up again.
March 12th 2021 edit: Replayed the game again and got bored super fast. Lowered my rating from 2.5 to 2 because it honestly feels even more shallow than I remembered. And they've now added legendary skins which cost 1,000 premium currency. The only way to get that currency? Real money, or get 150 from weekly challenges. 7 weeks of challenges for a SINGLE legendary skin.
There's a colourful cast of characters to choose from, most of which have a very palpable unique personality, right down to their running animations. Having their own specific hero vehicles with their own super abilities is exactly what a game like this needs to give it just that little bit more variety every match.
At first I thought the out-of-vehicle parts were really pointless and just kinda filler to try and be unique, but they do have a bit of a strategic element to them. Do you spend time collecting shards to get your hero vehicle faster at the expense of not gaining points right away? And you might find a point multiplier too.
It's a pretty weird decision to only have 2 solo modes and 2 team modes, when they could have doubled that by making the solo modes playable in team and vis-versa. I mean mayhem is basically the main mode of the game and was what all the advertising seemed to show off, but it's only playable as a free-for-all.
I can't believe that when this isn't a PS+ game they're trying to sell it as a full priced game lmao. That doesn't affect my rating because it's not the games fault, but just as a company decision, Jesus.
Edit: It seems this was misinformation I found online. It isn't a full priced game.
It also locks the story mode behind damn microtransactions. Apparently they plan to put the premium currency as a reward in the game, but as of right now that's not an option. And it's a shame because each character's story helps flesh them out, even if it is basically just two cutscenes sandwiched between 7 special event matches. Those event matches are pretty neat though, types of gameplay style you can't find elsewhere in the game, including a Crazy Taxi inspired mission.
I'm hoping the game gets new updates fast, otherwise I don't know if I'll even be booting it up again.
March 12th 2021 edit: Replayed the game again and got bored super fast. Lowered my rating from 2.5 to 2 because it honestly feels even more shallow than I remembered. And they've now added legendary skins which cost 1,000 premium currency. The only way to get that currency? Real money, or get 150 from weekly challenges. 7 weeks of challenges for a SINGLE legendary skin.