Wreckfest's latest update adds Carmageddon tracks and zombies

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Wreckfest's latest update adds Carmageddon tracks and zombies

Exactly what it was missing

Wreckfest is a racing game that's as much virtually slamming into scenery every bit conscientious cornering, so today'southward tie-in with Carmageddon is a perfect match. It'southward a gratis update which adds two new tracks, Dour City and Devil's Canyon, from the original zombie-smashing racing game, besides as the Eagle-R car and swarms of pixellated zombies to burst.

Here's a brief trailer of it in action:

I played a bunch of Carmageddon dorsum when it was showtime released, or at to the lowest degree its demo. I liked it at the time non for the ability to make zombies (or robots) go pop, merely for Dour City, which felt as close to an open 3D world to drive effectually every bit I'd seen at that indicate. Information technology wasn't the start 3D racing game I'd played - that was probably Screamer - but it was the first where you could do more than than just drive a fixed way around a loop.

I'm glad that the update keeps the zombies every bit pixellated sprites, rather than modernising them into 3D. I don't really want to kill a bunch of things in Wreckfest, and the retro zombies makes the killing cute while ticking the nostalgia box.

I've also played a agglomeration of Wreckfest, early during its early on access journey. It doesn't get equally far as BeamNG.drive with its soft torso simulation, but it's a more than accessible and arcadey style to make motorcar metal crumple. THQ Nordic bought Wreckfest's developers Bugbear in November 2018, and acquired Carmageddon the following calendar month, making this update a friction match fabricated in the boardroom. Want to place bets on Bugbear'south next game being a full Carmageddon reboot?

As well as the Carmageddon content, the Wreckfest update also includes some fixes, although the remaining list of known bug included in the update mail service is much larger.