GAME OF THE MONTH
Pacific Drive
Most driving games seem keen to fill our garages with hundreds of cars. But unless you’re a billionaire, that’s not a, a haunting PC survival game, gives you just one car and you’re guaranteed to fall in love with it. It’s partly because cowering inside this battered, wood panelled station wagon is your best shot at surviving the mysterious Olympic Exclusion Zone and partly because as the game progresses you’ll have built it into a formidable, radiation resistant battle wagon. Scavenging for parts is a tense, creepy affair as you leave the relative safety of your car to strip derelict vehicles, siphon fuel and explore abandoned outposts. In spite of its weirdness, captures the connection between human and automobile better than most videogames. Combine that with an atmosphere more foreboding than a dentist’s waiting room and you have all the makings of a cult classic.
