Pacific Drive, introduced earlier immediately, is that uncommon recreation that you simply have a look at and say, hrm, I don’t assume I’ve ever fairly seen one thing like this earlier than.
Developed by Ironwood Studios, Pacific Drive is about within the Pacific Northwest, and has you and your trusty previous automotive—they name the sport a “road-like”, very cute—driving round some sort of bizarre alien/anomaly-filled panorama. It’s described by its creators as a “run-based, first-person driving survival recreation”, which implies you’ll mainly be spending a number of the sport driving frantically to your life, as you’ll be able to see within the trailer under:
Alex Dracott, Founder & Inventive Director of Ironwood Studios, says as a part of the sport’s announcement:
We love bizarre science, tales from street journey adventures, and we’ve at all times been intrigued by the darkish and mysterious worlds from video games like S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. or books like Annihilation. In Pacific Drive, we’ve been capable of carry these passions collectively by creating an journey that can take you deep into the guts of the Pacific Northwest driving in an historic station wagon that, over time, can turn into your personal considerably modified 80’s sci-fi machine to improve, discover, and threat the hazards of the Zone with. The workforce at Ironwood has been working passionately to make that concept a actuality. After three years of labor, we couldn’t presumably be extra excited to share Pacific Drive, and we’re thrilled to be working with PlayStation to take action.
Whereas the workforce are “working with PlayStation” on the sport, with Pacific Drive due on PS5 subsequent yr, there’ll even be a PC model launched across the identical time.