Wreckfest – Derby Distinction

To conclude my trilogy on Demolition Derby games, I’m going to do things a bit differently. My final entry is Bugbear Entertainment’s Wreckfest which was originally released in 2014. But for those of us that waited for the game to arrive on consoles, we didn’t get our hands on it until the summer of 2019.Continue reading “Wreckfest – Derby Distinction”

Test Drive: Eve of Destrucion

This was it. The game I had waited the better part of two decades for. It may have taken until 2004, but I finally got my wish for a true demolition derby game. And more than that, it was a game filled with many of the gimmick style races that entertain short track thrill shows.Continue reading “Test Drive: Eve of Destrucion”

Destruction Derby – Almost There

By the mid-1990s video games were coming into their own. Nearly every genre was covered by this point, subdivided in countless sub-sections. This was especially true with racing games. Real racing simulations, cars with weapons attacking one another, arcade spectaculars and nearly every form of racing in-between – it had (mostly) all been covered.  Continue reading “Destruction Derby – Almost There”