Pacific Drive, introduced earlier at present, is that uncommon recreation that you just take a look at and say, hrm, I don’t suppose I’ve ever fairly seen one thing like this earlier than.
Developed by Ironwood Studios, Pacific Drive is ready within the Pacific Northwest, and has you and your trusty outdated automobile—they name the sport a “road-like”, very cute—driving round some sort of bizarre alien/anomaly-filled panorama. It’s described by its creators as a “run-based, first-person driving survival recreation”, which suggests you’ll mainly be spending numerous the sport driving frantically to your life, as you’ll be able to see within the trailer beneath:
Alex Dracott, Founder & Artistic Director of Ironwood Studios, says as a part of the sport’s announcement:
We love bizarre science, tales from street journey adventures, and we’ve at all times been intrigued by the darkish and mysterious worlds from video games like S.T.A.L.Ok.E.R. or books like Annihilation. In Pacific Drive, we’ve been capable of deliver these passions collectively by creating an journey that can take you deep into the center of the Pacific Northwest using in an historical station wagon that, over time, can turn into your individual considerably modified 80’s sci-fi machine to improve, discover, and danger the hazards of the Zone with. The staff at Ironwood has been working passionately to make that concept a actuality. After three years of labor, we couldn’t probably be extra excited to share Pacific Drive, and we’re thrilled to be working with PlayStation to take action.
Whereas the staff are “working with PlayStation” on the sport, with Pacific Drive due on PS5 subsequent 12 months, there’ll even be a PC model launched across the identical time.