Wreckfest 9+

The game is *almost* perfect

I have this game on console, and for the this to be almost a direct port to mobile is nothing short of phenomenal.

The biggest issue is the automatic transmission. With it being a mobile game, you're extremely limited on the real estate to map out the buttons for the manual trans, and it makes it almost impossible to use as I’m not an octopus. The auto transmission only does two things; never down shifts when you need to so the car is lugging like a tractor, or does nothing but hit the rev limiter like it doesn’t have the ability to shift into a higher gear.

Everything else in the game is absolutely amazing, and yes I’m aware that the game has controller compatibility but that really defeats the purpose of it being a mobile game. This is the only racing game on mobile that has this issue, so it’s a big bummer that the game would be perfect if this wasn’t such a huge problem.

Wow

Summary: 10/10. Highly recommend.
Complete TL;DR Review: After about a week with this game, I had to come here to give credit since credit is clearly due. I’m completely satisfied and totally impressed with Wreckfest. The gist for any of you old folks like me who grew up with PS1, Wreckfest combines the realism and racing mechanics of Gran Turismo with crash and damage dynamics of Destruction Derby. All of course with modern day graphics and performance. I’m running this on a iPad 9th Gen smoothly and without issues. The secondary download does take a bit of space (something like 4-5GB). Scenery, shadows, vehicle damage and road debris all look fantastic. Tracks are great, although it can be tough to see turns or barricades for different version of tracks. It does chew through battery, but I would expect nothing less for a game like this. In fact, it plays and feels more like a console game than a mobile game. The on-screen controls suffice, but I found myself enjoying this so much and serious enough that I bought a Bluetooth controller, which enhances the experience and improves race performance. I haven’t needed to buy DLC since you earn credits to buy and upgrade cars and also win cars through career challenges, but I do expect I will purchase car packs eventually. The only recommendation would be online multiplayer play. It looks like the Dev is already working on that because there is a menu item for it. Absolute fun. Outstanding game!

Couple of Issues

Now, I have enjoyed playing it thus far on my 12.9 iPad Pro max using my ps4 controller. My biggest issue so far is…in the middle the middle of the race I want to change my controller configuration.? Well, you have it all there to be done but when I hit exit and save I’m still in the same configuration every single time! Now this may have been brought up in other reviews but I don’t care about other reviews. That’s their experience, this is mine and you guys collaborate them all together to fix your game so it performs as close to perfect as you can get. Next, I’m multiplayer mode…..what am I missing? There are no servers to join and I haven’t been successful making my own. Now I’m just a graphiX designer guy and love what I see so far. I’m just curious as to how I go about joining the multiplayer mode. I probably didn’t read everything that probably would have told me but who reads the instructions to anything these days. Anyway, I hope to hear back from you soon. Diggin’ It so far minus these issues. Thanks

P.S. I’ve bought every car you got and when I go into a tailored race like folk heroes and everybody else is in little cars, I’m in a police car. And the mini race or micro race I’m in a freaking monster truck. Multiplayer isn’t working, I didn’t burn up all that cash just to play with myself. Come on man. Fix this and I’ll give it a better review. Too bad I have to give it 5 stars to get attention

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your feedback! We have to look into the issue with changing the controller config mit game. Could be that we didn't test that because we assumed you only change that before the race. Online multiplayer isn't supported. If you have problems creating a server be sure that you gave the game access to local network permission in the device settings (you are asked that once in the game but perhaps that was clicked away and won't come up again). Kind regards,