
The combat, once you unlock a few new guns (shotguns, powerful cannons, etc) is all sorts of Mad Max silliness. You only have a few minutes for each battle. You can win this way or by getting the most kills by the time the clock runs out. Sometimes they ask you to capture the enemy HQ (a giant circle outlined on the ground) and sometimes to capture a neutral zone in the middle. These 8v8 battles take place across wide maps scattered with remnants of the old world – rusty ships, abandoned factories and so on. Enter a battle and win to collect experience and rewards (eg. Here is your car, it is a level 1 piece of rusty garbage. The music wouldn’t be the only thing I would consider completely out of place. By the time I left the deserts and shipyards of Crossout, I would be impressed but also impossibly frustrated. It felt like the folksy strumming didn’t belong in this high-octane rampage. That was only the first thing I noticed when I dropped into the workshop menu of this multiplayer scrapper from Targem Games. It has a soundtrack made up of gentle guitar. Ĭrossout is an action game about building a terrifying car made out of swords and skulls and then driving around the wasteland, pumping other drivers full of lead. This week, he returns with multiplayer car combat game Crossout. Every week we dispatch Brendan to scour the post-apocalyptic wastes of early access and scavenge whatever games he can find.
