Pacific Drive, introduced earlier at present, is that uncommon sport that you simply have 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 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 sport”, which suggests you’ll principally be spending a whole lot of the sport driving frantically in your life, as you possibly can see within the trailer beneath:
Alex Dracott, Founder & Inventive Director of Ironwood Studios, says as a part of the sport’s announcement:
We love bizarre science, tales from highway journey adventures, and we’ve at all times been intrigued by the darkish and mysterious worlds from video games like S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. or books like Annihilation. In Pacific Drive, we’ve been in a position to carry these passions collectively by creating an journey that can take you deep into the guts of the Pacific Northwest using in an historic station wagon that, over time, can develop into your personal considerably modified 80’s sci-fi machine to improve, discover, and threat the risks of the Zone with. The crew 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 crew 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.