Pacific Drive lends you the keys to a sci-fi journey full of exploration, racing, survival, and says GO! What appears to be a hectic peddle to the metal adventure is more casual. Sightseeing, recording anomalies, and uncovering the mystery in your machine will be the main chunk of gameplay. While downtime needs to exist for scavenging, repairing, and other in-zone actions, the formidable zone threat is mostly all talk. Though moments when the zone begins to quickly close in behind you are great, they're short, only at the end of a route, and afford you plenty of time & sometimes control on when to activate the countdown. In this case a game absent of difficulty choices may leave those wanting more of a challenge hungry.

Setting was well chosen, and its change throughout the different biomes each brought about a good share of uniqueness. Whether it was the size of the zone, different terrains, elevation, anomalies, weather, day/night, enough alterations were made to keep two zones on your journey from feeling too similar. Car maintenance was solid, through fixing statuses with kits, swapping old parts out for new, and tracking down the root cause of quirks via diagnostics, all added depth to your vehicle. Exploration can fairly reward those who come prepared. Be it removing armored parts off an abandoned car to use yourself (avoiding the higher cost construction from scratch), or locating a recently launched escape pod with contents you may not have unlocked access to yet; both examples kept my faith in exploring the zone being worthwhile.

Progression through the upgrade tree was encouraging for my anchor energy collection efforts, but disappointing for the high cost rare resource requirements of some item recipes. Unlocking something new, but having no clue what a resource was, where it came from, or if you needed certain tools to harvest it was frustrating. In a dissatisfying series of events I never upgraded my engine as other tools and gear required the same resources, and just when I had hoarded enough a main mission item came forward requesting construction which sapped my stash dry.

Pacific Drive has its share of bumps, both on the road and in-game, but ultimately was enjoyable. If you're interested in a casual driving action game consider picking it up.

Pacific Drive lends you the keys to a sci-fi journey full of exploration, racing, survival, and says GO! What appears to be a hectic peddle to the metal adventure is more casual. Sightseeing, recording anomalies, and uncovering the mystery in your machine will be the main chunk of gameplay. While downtime needs to exist for scavenging, repairing, and other in-zone actions, the formidable zone threat is mostly all talk. Though moments when the zone begins to quickly close in behind you are great, they're short, only at the end of a route, and afford you plenty of time & sometimes control on when to activate the countdown. In this case a game absent of difficulty choices may leave those wanting more of a challenge hungry. Setting was well chosen, and its change throughout the different biomes each brought about a good share of uniqueness. Whether it was the size of the zone, different terrains, elevation, anomalies, weather, day/night, enough alterations were made to keep two zones on your journey from feeling too similar. Car maintenance was solid, through fixing statuses with kits, swapping old parts out for new, and tracking down the root cause of quirks via diagnostics, all added depth to your vehicle. Exploration can fairly reward those who come prepared. Be it removing armored parts off an abandoned car to use yourself (avoiding the higher cost construction from scratch), or locating a recently launched escape pod with contents you may not have unlocked access to yet; both examples kept my faith in exploring the zone being worthwhile. Progression through the upgrade tree was encouraging for my anchor energy collection efforts, but disappointing for the high cost rare resource requirements of some item recipes. Unlocking something new, but having no clue what a resource was, where it came from, or if you needed certain tools to harvest it was frustrating. In a dissatisfying series of events I never upgraded my engine as other tools and gear required the same resources, and just when I had hoarded enough a main mission item came forward requesting construction which sapped my stash dry. Pacific Drive has its share of bumps, both on the road and in-game, but ultimately was enjoyable. If you're interested in a casual driving action game consider picking it up.