Photo: Ironwood Studios
After seeing the enticing physical edition for the upcoming dystopian video game Pacific Drive, I started riffling through one of the finest catalogs for the best classic cars for that great American family road trip. I came to the unapologetic conclusion that the vehicle from this dystopian yet very promising first-person driving game is... drum roll, please, a Chevy Suburban. Sorry, Griswold family fans, it's not the 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire.
Pacific Drive is being developed by Ironwood Studios from Seattle, WA, and is set to release in Q1 2024 on PS5, Steam, and Epic Games Store. That's right; sadly, it's not on Xbox for now.
It's a "run-based" survival game set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. The reimagined area is shrouded in a mystery blended with science-fiction and heavy Stephen King vibes. As you drive-and-repeat your way to the heart of the Olympic Exclusion Zone, you'll unravel more of the story.
Run-based simply means you go on short missions or runs to get what you need, then hurry back to your garage that doubles as a main base. Then, you upgrade your gear only to do it all again, only more efficiently each time.
The catch is that every time you venture forth into the wilderness surrounded by a 300 ft. tall wall, you will do so with the help of your trusty station wagon, which you will incrementally upgrade. Think of it as your lifeline, as the devs put it.
To upgrade your vehicle, you will find some pretty gnarly stuff in your expeditions, but some you will have to tear apart right from the dead bodies of other cars. Mainly other '70s station wagons.
Survival isn't easy, and each mile of the way, you'll have to repair your damaged vehicle, swap some parts for better ones, and craft all manner of things to help you in your unsettling journey.
You'll also have to face a mysterious storm, but the best part is that you'll be doing all this while listening to an original score by Wilbert Roget II, who also worked as a composer on famous soundtracks from Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty: World War II, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Destiny 2: Forsaken, Mortal Kombat 11, and currently he's working on Star Wars Outlaws.
Now for the main attraction, the car heavily inspired by the longest-running nameplate in the world, the legendary Chevrolet Suburban. Let's say a 1970s model, why not? Granted, some design features don't perfectly overlap, but its Suburban roots run deep within the game design.
This baby was introduced in 1934 with a station wagon body on a small truck chassis. It wasn't the best car in the world when it first came out, but after a couple of tries from Chevrolet, it made history as one of the toughest things on four wheels out there. Some models even came with off-roading capabilities.
The six-cylinder engine variants for the 1970 Chevy Suburban had 250-cubic-inches with 155 horsepower and 292-cu-in that produced 170 horsepower.
As for the V8 versions, they started at 307-cubic-inches with 200 horsepower. Next, there's the 350-cu-in V8 with 255 hp, and finally, we have a 400-cu-in V8 that could deliver 310 hp.
It's an iconic vehicle, to say the least. It's too bad it's not featured as a mini model in the Pacific Drive Deluxe Edition in physical form. Maybe we'll see it as a larger-scale replica form in a collector's edition later.
It's a "run-based" survival game set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. The reimagined area is shrouded in a mystery blended with science-fiction and heavy Stephen King vibes. As you drive-and-repeat your way to the heart of the Olympic Exclusion Zone, you'll unravel more of the story.
Run-based simply means you go on short missions or runs to get what you need, then hurry back to your garage that doubles as a main base. Then, you upgrade your gear only to do it all again, only more efficiently each time.
The catch is that every time you venture forth into the wilderness surrounded by a 300 ft. tall wall, you will do so with the help of your trusty station wagon, which you will incrementally upgrade. Think of it as your lifeline, as the devs put it.
To upgrade your vehicle, you will find some pretty gnarly stuff in your expeditions, but some you will have to tear apart right from the dead bodies of other cars. Mainly other '70s station wagons.
Survival isn't easy, and each mile of the way, you'll have to repair your damaged vehicle, swap some parts for better ones, and craft all manner of things to help you in your unsettling journey.
You'll also have to face a mysterious storm, but the best part is that you'll be doing all this while listening to an original score by Wilbert Roget II, who also worked as a composer on famous soundtracks from Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty: World War II, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Destiny 2: Forsaken, Mortal Kombat 11, and currently he's working on Star Wars Outlaws.
Now for the main attraction, the car heavily inspired by the longest-running nameplate in the world, the legendary Chevrolet Suburban. Let's say a 1970s model, why not? Granted, some design features don't perfectly overlap, but its Suburban roots run deep within the game design.
This baby was introduced in 1934 with a station wagon body on a small truck chassis. It wasn't the best car in the world when it first came out, but after a couple of tries from Chevrolet, it made history as one of the toughest things on four wheels out there. Some models even came with off-roading capabilities.
The six-cylinder engine variants for the 1970 Chevy Suburban had 250-cubic-inches with 155 horsepower and 292-cu-in that produced 170 horsepower.
As for the V8 versions, they started at 307-cubic-inches with 200 horsepower. Next, there's the 350-cu-in V8 with 255 hp, and finally, we have a 400-cu-in V8 that could deliver 310 hp.
It's an iconic vehicle, to say the least. It's too bad it's not featured as a mini model in the Pacific Drive Deluxe Edition in physical form. Maybe we'll see it as a larger-scale replica form in a collector's edition later.
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