I played literally all of it that's out so far. The TLDR; there's no substance whatsoever, every single fight is the same and the different "biomes" are just a couple trees, and different colors. I got baited by the good reviews likening it to vigilante 8, or twisted metal. It has almost nothing in common with either of these aside from it being vehicle combat.
The first, and most damaging issue this game has is its open world: It definitely is an open world, way too open. Instead of having obstacles to drive around, and using that to change up the combat and game play, its literally just endlessly open. this leads to combat being "Hold down gas and fire, and repeat" there is no tactics to it, cause there simply cant be. What's unfortunate about this is, unless they completely scrap what they have and start totally over, there is no solution to this.
The second issue this game has is its difficulty: Like the first issue, this one cant really be solved either, because of the openness of the map. the game is so easy, you can literally just sit in one spot with the weakest vehicle, and not even come close to dying. i suspect this is because you cant have this game be difficult, cause there's no way to be better when the entire combat system is quite literally "hold shoot button". No cover or obstacles for you to drive around and out maneuver, no guns, or repair items to find to help, just a flat/ rolling hills map you just drive straight and full speed, holding down two buttons.
The third is the vehicles: this game features a customizable car system, and that's great, i love being able to build my own thing, but that's where the good ends. The only differences between the cars are things like speed and health, as well as how many guns you can have, a very very simple system. This leads to most of the cars just being worse versions of the others, once you get to late game, you pretty much only choose from 2 or 3. There are no specials, or anything unique to any of the cars, so there's literally no reason (other than nerfing yourself to make it harder) to use ANY of the cars you got early to mid game. The same issue comes up with the weapons, there's a lot of different weapons, but they may as well just be the same thing, and just like with the cars the early game ones have nothing useful or special about them. so unless you just wanna nerf yourself, there's no reason to use 3/4 of the weapon roster
The fourth issue is the combat: I know i already touched on this, but man... it is legitimately the single most shallow combat system I've ever played. Given there are no obstacles, or cover, and the game was made to be "fast paced" you just do 3-4 "missions" where about 10 weak enemies spawn out of nowhere and come in at the speed of ♥♥♥♥. You then quickly kill them, rinse and repat 4 times, and you've completed a "mission". you have to do this 3-4 times to unlock a "boss" fight. the bosses are largely just spongey regular enemies, aside from a couple exceptions, although even those don't change up the combat at all. Since they are such spongey health pools, its takes a couple minutes to kill them. Since you're guaranteed to be in an open field or desert (that's all this game has) this very quickly devolves into you and the boss driving around in a circle holding down two buttons, for about 3-5 minutes. I ♥♥♥♥ you not, almost every boss eventually ends up doing a nascar maneuver where they just drive around in a circle going full speed, with you behind them doing the same.
It really sucks, because no one has even tried to make a vehicle combat game like vigilante 8 or twisted metal, and i still love both those games. i really wanted to like this game, that's why i played till the end, but unfortunately it just ain't it.
