Dead Static Drive
Right off the bat, you can tell that Dead Static Drive is absolutely oozing with style. The visuals are clean, vivid and sleek, and the irreverent tone suits it to a T.
It places you in a post-apocalyptic setting where gargantuan beasts are laying waste to society, and your desperate bid for survival is offset by the mundane realities of life: sometimes, dude, you’ve just gotta find a place to pee.
It’s goofy and chaotic, and driving the car can prove hilariously hectic.
Somehow, it can be more satisfying to utterly fail at your goal, careening off the road and tumbling down the hills, just barely surviving by the skin of your teeth, only to mistime your alight and get crushed under your wrecked vehicle as it rolls to a stop.
Dead Static Drive reinforces a nihilistic world view that life is expendable, and indeed, the potential allies you’ll meet along the way are just that. Briefly useful but ultimately just a means to an end. Hopefully they don’t end up double crossing you first.
Be sure to check this indie game when it drops next year on PC and Xbox One.
