![]() I’d say the foot game isn’t as great as the vehicle game. You can use this opportunity to collect crystals to build your hero vehicle gauge faster, jump on vehicles and attempt to hijack them via a sort of rodeo minigame, or even knock other players on foot out with a charging attack. On foot, whether you’re just starting out or your vehicle got wrecked, forcing you to eject and escape, you can run around the field. And if you do well enough, you build a meter and can summon your character’s aforementioned hero vehicle with that character’s own unique abilities to cause even more carnage. ![]() ![]() There’s a decent amount of speed and fluidity to the game, so it can be tough, but once you get caught in a fracas or land that big blind-siding hit, Destruction AllStars provides some pretty glorious feedback. Inside the vehicle, you have forward and sideways ramming capabilities that give you a speed boost in the direction you toggle, which you’ll want to use to deliver massive hits to other vehicles to wreck them for points. Players start off on foot and must commandeer standard vehicles that appear across the arena, including buggies, roadsters, pick-up trucks, SUVs and vans. It’s a long road to the top if you wanna wreck n’ rollĪt its foundation, as should be blatantly clear, Destruction AllStars is a demolition derby game. I'm sure they might be coming, but it feels like a lost opportunity to not have them right out of the gate. I’ll chock this up to launch, but I want way better cosmetic rewards for how cool and outlandish these character designs already are. ![]() By leveling up and grinding with a character, you can unlock skins, emotes inside and outside the cars, and voice lines, but the skins are pretty much just color swaps right now. The only real bummer here in Destruction AllStar’s aesthetic is the unlockables. Each of the characters in Destruction AllStars are wildly varied, infectiously over-the-top, and have fun functionality inside and outside their vehicles. Get up close and let loose with her vehicle and it will launch cars with the power of sound. Then there’s Harmony, who is musical royalty with a sound blasting vehicle to match. Meanwhile, Jian is a prickly and dismissive child of privilege with a vehicle that can sprout spines like a hedgehog to keep him safe and do damage to foes. He’s leather-clad action hero in a tiger mask and his hero vehicle is a roadster featuring a massive set of circular spinning blades on the front of it that he can use to annihilate other cars. This is aided by the fact that the characters themselves are bombastic as all get out (that comparison to professional wrestling above is no joke), and their hearty personalities and themes translate to any vehicle for which they take control, not including having their own summonable “hero vehicles” that are an even further step above. The game is always at 60fps 4K pretty much without fail and handled itself well despite the sheer chaos going on at nearly all times. Right out of the gate, the aesthetic of Destruction AllStars looks drop-dead gorgeous with the PlayStation 5’s capabilities. Whether in solo or team modes, players pick one of the lively characters offered by the game's roster and jump into vehicles scattered around the arena to drive, crash, and wreck opponents in a collection of various game modes. The titular program is an arena spectacle featuring viewership and stadiums around the world in which drivers/superstars compete to be the best of the best. Welcome to the Wrecktangleĭestruction AllStars isn’t just the name of the game. Not quite Twisted Metal and not quiet Monday Night Combat, Destruction AllStars still elicits the good feelings that came of those things and packages it in a distinct glitz and glam that is not only foundationally solid, but has fantastic potential to grow, with just a few speedbumps to get past along the way. It’s a gameshow/sporting event fashioned around superstar drivers competing in an arena of car combat. It only takes seconds of playing or even looking at what Destruction AllStars offers to see this game is all about the spectacle.
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