THQ Nordic’s open-world smash-em-up racer finally has a release date, and it’s sooner than anyone probably expected: Wreckreation releases on all current platforms in just over a month’s time on October 28.
The good news comes courtesy of the above release date announcement trailer posted on THQ Nordic’s official YouTube channel. While the 63-second trailer is short and sweet, it makes one thing abundantly clear: the world is your playground and you can do whatever you please.
If while watching the trailer, a sense of familiarity washes over you, it should as the developers behind Wreckreation, Three Fields Entertainment, was set up by three key ex-Criterion staff members who were behind Burnout: Paradise and several Need For Speed titles. So it’s safe to say that the spirit of Burnout lives on, even if Criterion Games isn’t making use of its name.
As a refresher, Wreckreation drops players into a 400 square kilometer (or 155sqmi) map called “MixWorld”, where players will be able to engage with speed challenges, stunts, and of course, fantasitcal crashes — all while exploring this vast open environment.
Not only that, players can take things one step further with the ability and, at any point, open the construction menu and create a “racing paradise”. Custom race tracks that ascend to the skies above, loops, ramps, jumps — whatever comes to mind, players can do it all. Without any need to concern oneself with being weighed down by anything. Even gravity.
If that weren’t enough already, the weather time of day, traffic density, vehicles and more can all be tailored at the touch of a button. Nothing is off-limits with Wreckreation, lending even more credibility to its Burnout lineage.
Everything can be shared with the community too, enjoyed all your own in solo mode, or players can invite their friends to race and crash in their creations as well. With more than 50 fictional-but-close-enough vehicles available, there will be no shortage of appropriate ride for whatever carnage ensues.
While we’ve yet to have anything approaching a hands-on — unusual in an era where titles are in Early Access for years at a stretch — it certainly looks to be entertaining enough. Nonetheless, the wait is almost over, as Wreckreation arrives, both physically and digitally, on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series consoles on October 28 at $39.99/€39.99.
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