FAST & CURIOUS

Repair, improve and pilot a quirky station wagon in survival game PACIFIC DRIVE

By Chris Livingston

With sincere apologies to the Magnum Opus from Mad Max, the Saud Kruger Orca passenger liner from Elite Dangerous and Arthur Morgan’s horse, I have a new favourite ride: the station wagon in Pacific Drive. It’s amazing. It didn’t look like much at first: just a typical late ’80s family wagon with wood panelling and a hatchback trunk. But over the course of the last 35 hours I’ve turned it into an armour-plated, radiation-resistant tank positively bristling with sci-fi gadgets. And it’s only a little bit haunted. Those upgrades (and the ghosts in the shell) are the result of barrelling through a hellscape of nightmarish weather, crumbling roads, and more horrifying anomalies per square mile than the entire STALKER trilogy combined. Pacific Drive, the debut game from developer Ironwood Studios, is a…

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