![]() ![]() This of course resulted in the most coordinated teamwork in any competitive game I have ever experienced. What the developers instead chose was to allow for everyone’s controller mic to be turned on at the beginning of every round. They could have at least put the thumpy menu music in the background, but chose otherwise. Maybe even an occasional announcer will be heard, but for the most part you are met with the jarring feeling of an empty and desolate arena. Yes, there are sound effects for the crashes and your vehicle does go "vroom". As you enter a bombastic arena filled with thousands of fans and are poised to battle players from around the world you are met with silence. Beyond the generic thumpy music in the menu screen, there is nothing to be found in a match. Using the perfect segue of the Blue Man Group and Deadmau5, we need to talk about music in this game. Map diversity with varying biomes, like desert and snow, would go a long way to make the player feel like they are actually experiencing new locations and that this global competitive event is actually taking place around the world I’m simply asking for maps that don’t all just look like Deadmau5 fell into a cement mixer that was then poured over a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 skate park. ![]() Now I’m not asking for the developers to fill the stands with Showgirls or that the Blue Man Group needs to be the musical performance for the level to signal where you are at, but I wouldn’t object to it. ![]() Beyond the title bumper before the match, there is nothing identifying where you are. Destruction AllStars takes you to exciting locales all over the world, like Las Vegas and Tokyo, but you wouldn’t know it. But these moments are fleeting as once your car is damaged enough you will have to exit it and start your race on foot again to a generic truck.Ĭompounding the lack of gameplay diversity is the generic neon laced steel arenas that you find yourself battling in. It’s in these moments, with your special vehicle active, that the diversity of the roster is actually felt. These special vehicles range in abilities from invisibility cloaking to front facing saw blades. It’s only after the player causes enough destruction or collects enough shards that they can unlock their unique vehicle. Once inside a vehicle, you can begin your destruction journey in a generic truck or car that lacks any special abilities. Players can eject from their vehicles at any time to parkour on foot across the arena to collect shards or a new vehicle, but the best moments are spent in the drivers seat. When a player starts a multiplayer match they are on foot in front of generic vehicles that they must race to get inside before their competitors. Unlike Overwatch though, these characters never truly feel unique enough because the majority of your matches are not spent in their special vehicle. However, at the time of this writing, there are no announced plans to bring private lobbies to the game.ĭestruction AllStars has been released as one of this month’s free PS Plus games along with Control: Ultimate Edition, which recently won our Editors’ Choice award. In other PS5 news, an upcoming firmware update has reportedly been outed, while God of War is set to receive a big upgrade for the current-gen console.Destruction AllStars certainly pulls from the Overwatch playbook by creating a diverse roster of characters that have their own unique abilities and power ups. ![]() So will it be possible to play Mayhem and Gridfall with your friends in a party in the future? The only possible way to ensure that this could be done without it causing issues would be for private lobbies to be rolled out, where players could play with one another without gaining XP. If you party up, only the game’s team-based modes will be accessible to you, with the game requiring that you leave your party altogether if you wish to start matchmaking a game in either of its solo modes. As such, it isn’t currently possible to play Mayhem and Gridfall with your friends. This is to ensure that a party of players cannot enter one of these modes and rig the results in order to farm XP. ![]()
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