

You have to wait for another round of cars to appear on the map in the hope of getting that SUV. When you take heavy damage, you will have the chance to jump out of your car and look for another one to drive. So if you’re lucky, you get to hop into an SUV, you’ll have greater car health points (HP) over the smaller ones like Sedans or something like a Volkswagen Beetle. You will either get a Sedan or an SUV after you land on the ground. You have to rush to the closest car and get it before another player does.

It’s all about timing, while you will take a little bit of time getting used to it before winning more games, Destruction AllStars is just fun when mindlessly crashing your car into another.Īfter you jump off the starting platform, you’ll have a couple of vehicle types to choose from. So if you have a better speed than your enemy, you’ll likely have a greater chance of inflicting damage to your enemy. It’s like a power slide that amplifies the attack dealt to your opponent.

You simply have to press the right analog stick to left or right or up to boost based on the direction you’re aiming at. It’s like bump cars with colorful cartoonish characters to choose from who have certain abilities that can boost one player’s winning chance. You can easily speed up and bump into an opponent’s vehicle to deal damage. The game tries so hard to have it all - the fun, mayhem, and competition - but Lucid Games fails to fulfill most of these in Destruction AllStars.ĭestruction AllStars’ gameplay is simple but hard to master. Despite having a great idea to showcase this as a PS5 exclusive that would attract more to subscribe to Sony’s PlayStation Plus, Destruction AllStars is simply just not the game that I expected it to be. Games like Destruction Derby is the epitome of destruction. You can watch the State of Play video, which also goes into depth about the in-game challenges, in its entirety below.A day long wrecking cars from left to right, I wanted Destruction AllStars, Lucid Games’ latest release, to give me the ultimate catastrophe among cars. Destruction Points will also be earnable later this year by way of completing daily and weekly challenges. Alternately, you can purchase Destruction Points using real money in the PlayStation Store. The in-game currencies include AllStar Coins, which are earned by playing online and earning experience points. Using in-game currency, you can buy character skins, character emotes, vehicle emotes, and shouts. The final mode is Gridfall, a deathmatch of sorts, where each character has a set number of lives and the last person standing is the winner.Īs you play, you unlock costumes and cosmetics to customize your AllStars and their rides. Stockpile is another team-based game centered on collecting gears, but you also need to focus on controlling the three banks in the arena. Carnado is an 8v8 team-based mode tasks you with earning gears by destroying or stealing your opponents' vehicles before banking them by driving your car into the carnado, destroying your vehicle in the process. While ramming another vehicle with your vehicle is the most obvious way to accomplish this, you can jump on top of a vehicle while you're on foot to either take over that player's vehicle or destroy it.Īt launch, Destruction AllStars delivers four game modes. Mayhem, which can be played single-player, is all about causing as much chaos as possible.

Your mission in Destruction AllStars is to enter a vehicle and cause as much destruction and carnage as possible. Don't get too attached to these vehicles, however, as the common vehicles are meant to be destroyed developer Lucid Games wants you hopping in and out of vehicles often, mixing up the vehicular gameplay with the on-foot parkour action.Īs you evade enemies, wreck vehicles, and collect items on the field, you charge your hero ability and hero vehicles to unleash moves like leaving a trail of fire everywhere you run or drive or going invisible to catch opponents off guard. You have access to three different vehicle types: one focused on speed and drifting, one focused on handling and agility, and one focused on plowing through the crowd through sheer brute force. Each character has their own unique abilities, as well as signature hero vehicles. Players choose from 16 distinct characters known as AllStars. PlayStation and Destruction AllStars studio Lucid Games have released a seven-and-a-half minute State of Play video for the frantic and colorful title, giving you a solid idea of what to expect when the game is released next week.
