Friday Timewaster
Crossout is your chance to get your Mad Max on.
The game reminds me strongly of the old Steve Jackson ziploc bag game Car Wars from the early 1980s. Essentially, you bodge together cars from whatever you can scrape up, then take to the post-apocalyptic wasteland to beat up on bad guys, (or good guys, if that's your thing).
The gameplay is entertaining and quite brisk. PvP matches last no more than three minutes each, meaning you don't have the emotional investment of a 20- or 30-minute match only to watch it all go down the drain because your teammates are donkeys. It's three quick minutes of glorious blazing guns and whirling saw blades, then on to the next match. Win or lose, you'll still have fun.
PvE consists of various five-player co-op missions which tend to last slightly longer, in the 5- to 10-minute range. They come in a variety of flavors: escorting a truck full of valuable scrap; stealing a McGuffin from one side of the map and transporting it to the other side while under constant attack and dodging minefields; point defense missions. There are several modes, all providing a unique challenge. All of the enemies in PvE co-op are by definition AI bots, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
Finally, there are deathmatch and racing modes, which are pretty much what they're labeled as. Good luck designing a winning race car; the competition is fierce.
The real star of Crossout, of course, is the vehicle construction. As you level up you'll find more and more parts which you can use to assemble ever wilder and more destructive vehicles, limited only by your imagination and the parts you have on hand. Whether it's a dune buggy with light machine guns or a Leviathan-sized truck with drones, flamethrowers and rocket launchers, they're all fun to play. You are matched by power level of the vehicle you've assembled, so you'll never be overwhelmed by more experienced players.
One of the more enjoyable aspects of the game is actually quite passive: looking at what other people have come up with. It's amazing to me how you can give a thousand people the same set of parts to work with and you'll get a thousand completely different interpretations of how the pieces should fit together. Some are crap, some ingenious, and some are just quirky, but they're all unique.
Hey, it's free. If you love cars and you love guns, (and what red-blooded American male doesn't?), you should give it a whirl.
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The game reminds me strongly of the old Steve Jackson ziploc bag game Car Wars from the early 1980s. Essentially, you bodge together cars from whatever you can scrape up, then take to the post-apocalyptic wasteland to beat up on bad guys, (or good guys, if that's your thing).
The gameplay is entertaining and quite brisk. PvP matches last no more than three minutes each, meaning you don't have the emotional investment of a 20- or 30-minute match only to watch it all go down the drain because your teammates are donkeys. It's three quick minutes of glorious blazing guns and whirling saw blades, then on to the next match. Win or lose, you'll still have fun.
PvE consists of various five-player co-op missions which tend to last slightly longer, in the 5- to 10-minute range. They come in a variety of flavors: escorting a truck full of valuable scrap; stealing a McGuffin from one side of the map and transporting it to the other side while under constant attack and dodging minefields; point defense missions. There are several modes, all providing a unique challenge. All of the enemies in PvE co-op are by definition AI bots, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
Finally, there are deathmatch and racing modes, which are pretty much what they're labeled as. Good luck designing a winning race car; the competition is fierce.
The real star of Crossout, of course, is the vehicle construction. As you level up you'll find more and more parts which you can use to assemble ever wilder and more destructive vehicles, limited only by your imagination and the parts you have on hand. Whether it's a dune buggy with light machine guns or a Leviathan-sized truck with drones, flamethrowers and rocket launchers, they're all fun to play. You are matched by power level of the vehicle you've assembled, so you'll never be overwhelmed by more experienced players.
One of the more enjoyable aspects of the game is actually quite passive: looking at what other people have come up with. It's amazing to me how you can give a thousand people the same set of parts to work with and you'll get a thousand completely different interpretations of how the pieces should fit together. Some are crap, some ingenious, and some are just quirky, but they're all unique.
Hey, it's free. If you love cars and you love guns, (and what red-blooded American male doesn't?), you should give it a whirl.
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