It breaks my heart that nobody plays DESTRUCTION ALLSTARS

The year 2021 has seen many successful games, but also titles that fell in disgrace at the press and / or the audience. For most of these luckless video games like Alan Wonder world or Football 2022 I can understand that quite well — at DESTRUCTION ALL STARS I'm helpless. In terms of action, presentation and innovation, the title makes some competitors loose in the bag. But the servers are empty, the matchmaking takes forever — why does Nobody play DESTRUCTION ALL STARS?

Hopelessly underestimated

Short Remembrance: DESTRUCTION ALL STARS is a PS5 exclusive of the British Developer Studio Lucid Games, which appeared in February as part of the PS Plus-LineUps and thus was available directly to the launch for free. Playfully, DESTRUCTION ALL STARS is based on the classic Arena Karambolage Chaos á la DESTRUCTION DERBY and can be quickly summarized: Behinds control and ram everything that comes to the bonnet. Who causes the most damage wins.

Hannes Ross ow @ greenhouse affect

If you ask Hannes which multiplayer game you should have not missed 2021, he simply imitates crude engine noise and explosions. Thus, he means DESTRUCTION ALTARS, which has impressed him with rapid action, a great cast in playable figures and great graphics sustainably.

DESTRUCTION ALL STARS had a decisive twist to offer. As soon as your own vehicle was driven to scrap, we have not left the competition for a long time. Instead, we are simply thrown out of the wreck, walking through the extremely dangerous arena, grab a manless spare vehicle and continues the brachial point hunt.

That sounds like a simple, but fun concept? Yes, that's it. The nuclear gameplay of Destruction All stars works — even perfect — and ensures a continuous adrenaline rush, garnished with clean 60 fps and effect-loaded NEXT gene presentation.

OK, Hannes, but why doesn't anyone plays when it's so good? I just ask myself. Also admitted, also in my test to the game I have not expressed little criticism. The single player campaigns are desert, sometimes the atmosphere is a bit sterile and the grafted monetization model locks some content such as single player campaigns behind a paywall — although DESTRUCTION ALL STARS costs 20 euros after all.

A multiplayer hit without giorzschaft

DESTRUCTION ALL STARS is far from a perfect game, I would never say that. But the failures that Lucid Games are cultivated are more concerned with the drummer, not the heart of the game: Mayhem mode. Just suck me off the nonstop action to avoid opponents and then scrap them with targeted attacks, satisfies a prehistoric need in me. I can and does not want to deny that I might be the greatest fun of my year in DESTRUCTION ALL STARS.

But the servers are hardly populated, the matchmaking can take minutes and the developers' inside looked pretty quickly forced to integrate bots with an update to the game to fill the matches. And yet it is hard to play in December 2021 undisturbed DESTRUCTION ALTARS.

And yes, I can understand if you bother microtransactions and slow game progress. But when I pass at Metacritic, the 62-he evaluation see and look into the justifications, then it often says that the boredom starts fast — that the fun action is only a straw fire that is rapidly small periphery is stifled. My fire is still burning lights and no matter how many times I fall into the arena, the adrenaline rush never tears off.

The charm to stand up at the top at the end of the staircase, motivates me even months later. But especially I have closed the lovable and various cast in playable drivers in the heart. So much personality and charm as the troupe around Martial Arts-Profi Rate, singer Harmony and Wrestler Ultimo Barricade bring, there are rare in multiplayer games.

Does the second scrap spring come?

But I still have hope for DESTRUCTION ALL STARS and LUCID GAMES. It would not be the first time that a game can only find itself after numerous updates and can inspire the crowd — you think there only no man's sky. For January, the developers have announced the next larger patch, which will make elementary adjustments and, for example, the complete (sometimes confusing) UI under hauled. With the All star pass and revised challenges, the game progress has become clearly flatter.

Allegedly — and here once again a renaissance could pose — should there be plans to transfer DESTRUCTION Altars yet to a Free2Play model. At least indicates a job tender. With a smaller entry hurdle and live service expectations, including new motivating content, DESTRUCTION ALL STARS could finally get into the right light.

Even for Lucid Games themselves, the undergoing response to DESTRUCTION ALL STARS could take a good end. Again, the rumor kitchen, the studio could have long since been working on another PlayStation Exclusive and revive a cult series again: Twisted Metal. Suitable for the announced TV series The car-Combat series is supposedly to take the foot again in the video game area again and here could Lucid Games genre-technically from the full draw.

Maybe that's not every day. Maybe the wave will soon come to PS5 owners who have nothing better than to play with me DESTRUCTION ALL STARS. Why, I firmly believe it!