“Everything else is just a walking simulator” is only one instance of the bug-eyed posturing with which Skybound Games announce Notmycar, their try and snaffle a chunk of Fort-Legs pie with a free-to-play, automotive-based battle royale.
Notmycar takes the angle that, if the car-wrecks don’t carry all of the boys to the yard, possibly being massively obnoxious will. “Are you tired of the same games day in and day out?”, reads the YouTube blurb. Uh, the entire world says no? Still: I dig the idea.
Hold your nostril and provides this a watch:
This sneering, chest-puffing tack is a disgrace, as melding the pattern of the second with a destruction derby is fairly strong idea. I’ve at all times loved cars-wot-shoot, and being product of multi-tonne steel may simply be an efficient treatment for batroyale-curious sorts who’re cautious of getting ritually insta-murdered within the head from half a mile away. If Notmycar can go away the cod-macho posturing on the advertising technique door, I’d be game for this.
The turgidly testosteronal motif recurs throughout the Notmycar website (“buckle up, buttercup”), however I’m cheered by glimpses of automobiles with glider wings, cars with gingham paintjobs, cars that are obviously from Mad Max films and cars fighting amongst wind turbines.
Notmycar – a very horrible title, offered in a very horrible all-lower-case fashion we is not going to be using right here – involves Steam Early Access on April 5. It’s free to play, and plans on an early entry journey of round six months. It does appear unlikely that it may well go toe-to-toe with the large weapons, however then no-one noticed Apeleg’s titanic success coming.
And, whereas developer NMC Studios are newcomers, writer Skybound Games, a part of Robert ‘Walking Dead’ Kirkman’s multimedia empire, certainly has money to flash. But possibly flash it at a special advertising company, eh?
Nevertheless, I’m up for a trip in a gingham death-machine. Let’s see how this factor’s wanting in two weeks’ time.
