Dead Static Drive

I knew the writing in this had juice during the character origin section, where one of the options is: "Equity Trader: Contributes nothing. Lecherous and guilty. Slick suit, dead eyes, and a wallet full of other peoples' money." I also like that there's things happening which have nothing to do with you, that make the world feel alive: like finding something monstrous squelching along dragging something unseen off into the night. I'm very curious to see how it all goes: there's a good chance this has some very distinctive vibes and I'm just scratching the surface.

Boy howdy, no wonder the devs kept mostly radio silent for the past... years. They knew what kind of nothing burged they had on their hands, in short what you see on the screenshots is what you get, a posterchild of style over substance. The Bad: - lackluster driving experience - no car engine sound - ubiquitous firearms in all places except where you would expect them to be like in the trunk of a cop car, to the point you don't care to pick them up or even search for them - royalty free level of synthwave music, nah scratch that, synthwave from a half assed commercial aping synthwave aesthetic - picked mechanic for when my car inevitably breaks; ride around and a encountered scripted sequence where your car breaks (just what I planed for) and MC says "it's fubar, can't fix it" (you what?), I run off to steal another car and are met with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ car whiz waiterss that materialized in the nearby bushes, mind you the only person that can fix your ride because as my mechanic MC himself said "im don't know that much about engines", cool player choices who did you learn from, telltale games? - really bad inventory controls - rigid and early developement like player animations - any little shift in elevation forces your player to do a annoying stuttering jump up action, which is a big deal when the whole map is clutered with all sorts of ♥♥♥♥ - body type 1 body type 2, nuff said - New hot of the press bug! with the latest update if you press ESC anywhere ingame you get sent to the map screen and the only way to leave it is to go back to title screen and load your game or Alt + F4 The good: - you didn't ♥♥♥♥ up the performance, bravo Worth the wait 7/10 - IGN