Unfortunately, you won’t be meeting too many other players until you reach level 10. The piecemeal destruction of both enemies and yourself can be astounding fun. Sometimes your enemies will blast the wheels right off your vehicle, and while a three-wheeled war-truck still has a decent bit of control to it, a car with two wheels missing on the front is a useless metal corpse, one that can do nothing but fire impotently at passing targets in some vain attempt to keep fighting. It’s possible for all your turrets to get shredded off your hood, leaving you helpless. You rev around blasting parts of enemy cars away while trying to make sure your own bits don’t get shot off. The combat, once you unlock a few new guns (shotguns, powerful cannons, etc) is all sorts of Mad Max silliness. You only have a few minutes for each battle. You can win this way or by getting the most kills by the time the clock runs out.

Sometimes they ask you to capture the enemy HQ (a giant circle outlined on the ground) and sometimes to capture a neutral zone in the middle. These 8v8 battles take place across wide maps scattered with remnants of the old world – rusty ships, abandoned factories and so on. Enter a battle and win to collect experience and rewards (eg. Here is your car, it is a level 1 piece of rusty garbage. The music wouldn’t be the only thing I would consider completely out of place. By the time I left the deserts and shipyards of Crossout, I would be impressed but also impossibly frustrated. It felt like the folksy strumming didn’t belong in this high-octane rampage. That was only the first thing I noticed when I dropped into the workshop menu of this multiplayer scrapper from Targem Games.

It has a soundtrack made up of gentle guitar. Ĭrossout is an action game about building a terrifying car made out of swords and skulls and then driving around the wasteland, pumping other drivers full of lead. This week, he returns with multiplayer car combat game Crossout. Every week we dispatch Brendan to scour the post-apocalyptic wastes of early access and scavenge whatever games he can find.

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