Pacific DriveIronwood Studios’ road trip deep into the heart of the paranormal received an in-depth gameplay trailer on Thursday, giving further insights into how players will build, modify and maintain theirs Griswold station wagon and use it to survive the horrors of the Olympic Exclusion Zone.
Announced at PlayStation’s State of Play online event in September Pacific Drive looks like an extraction style survival horror driving game, that is, like nothing else we’ve seen before. Players start in a garage, tune and repair their vehicle, then venture onto a Pacific Northwest highway where an extremely paranormal BS is going on.
Players can exit the car to collect supplies and resources that build up their ride; Of course, there is a big risk involved. The safest place is behind the wheel of this wood-paneled grocer, even with strange out-of-dimensional things darting around, lightning flashing everywhere, and road hazards ripping through your steel-belt radials (or slant).
As players progress, they can customize the car with helpful mods like additional fuel tanks, wind power generators, armor and other upgrades to survive the next run.
And the next run is what Pacific Drive seems to be everything. “Your journeys will take you through challenging terrain, with each area harboring its own set of nightmarish anomalies,” said Ironwood’s Blake Dove wrote in a PlayStation Blog post
Pacific Drive in other words, looks like a challenge that’s both scary and deadly. The game will be released later this year for PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. It will be the first standalone title for Ironwood Studios in Seattlewhich has supported us in triple-A projects in the past BioShock Infinite, inFamous Second SonAnd resistance 3.
