Pacific Drive, introduced earlier right now, is that uncommon recreation that you simply 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 about within the Pacific Northwest, and has you and your trusty previous automotive—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 implies you’ll mainly be spending a whole lot of the sport driving frantically in your life, as you may see within the trailer under:
Alex Dracott, Founder & Inventive 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 all the time 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 in a position to convey these passions collectively by creating an journey that may take you deep into the guts of the Pacific Northwest using in an historic station wagon that, over time, can change into your personal considerably modified 80’s sci-fi machine to improve, discover, and threat the risks 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 presumably 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 yr, there’ll even be a PC model launched across the similar time.