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15.02.2024 - 19:41 / thegamer.com / Pacific Drive
Pacific Drive's developers, Ironwood Studios, have shared a developer diary that reveals that its artstyle is based on a "twisting of the familiar" and leaving a distinct impression with a surreal world that's not too far from our own.
Although 2024 has already been a very busy year for gaming despite only being halfway through February, it looks like things are only going to get better from here, as there are a ton of unique titles coming out over the next few months. One such title is Pacific Drive, a survival game that uniquely focuses on maintaining a car and driving it around the Pacific Northwest.
With Pacific Drive being just around the corner thanks to its February 22 release date, its developer, Ironwood Studios, has started to share more about how the game's creation through developer diaries. The first of these, titled The Art of the Zone, dives into some concept art for the game that gives us a great look at how the world of the Olympic Exclusion Zone came to be and how it influenced the gameplay mechanics.
In the developer diary, members of Ironwood Studio showcase some early concept art for the game, with creative director Alexander Dracott starting things off by explaining that one of the key themes of the game's artwork is a "twisting of the familiar", with the Olympic Peninsula originally starting off "as you'd expect" before getting twisted and significantly changed.
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Dracott explains that there's a lot of the Pacific Northwest that matches with the Olympic Peninsula in Pacific Drive, from its deep forests to its moody rain and sense of isolation. This was captured in Pacific Drive and then built upon by a surreal side that's full of "unexplainable anomalies", something that you get a good taste of in the concept art for the game that's shown off in the dev diary.
Of course, while the world of Pacific Drive is a big focus of the game, something that's equally important is the station wagon that you drive around, look after, and upgrade. Foreground art lead and senior sandbox artist Jacob Stone notes that it was purposefully designed to be nostalgic but reliable, which is what led to the '80s-inspired wagon that you'll spend most of your time surviving alongside.
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When you get into your vehicle for the first time in Pacific Drive, it doesn’t feel any different than your average junker. Sure, it seems like it could fall apart any minute, but it somehow manages to stay mostly together… as long as you don’t run it into trees or through mysterious anomalies. It’s just an average car — until your friends on the radio start questioning how it exists at all. They say it should be impossible for a car to work in the Olympic Exclusion Zone, where the game takes place. The car also has some interesting characteristics: It’s able to take some technologically advanced upgrades like a champ, and despite being a 1950s station wagon, it can handle a paranormal storm with only minimal damage.
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Having already played a preview build of Pacific Drive, I felt confident going into my playthrough for this review. I’d learned a lot about this ornery but captivating driving/survival/roguelite game in those few hours — knowledge I thought I could apply from the get-go. I thought I could just start optimizing my resource collection and applying my understanding of some of its arcane systems. I envisioned a smooth run through the early missions as I explored the crumbling, glitching reality of the Olympic Exclusion Zone in the Pacific Northwest, and gradually reinforced my shabby station wagon against the wild hazards of this irradiated wilderness.