One of the biggest problems is the experience should have been linear. However, it’s not long before the shine wears off and you see how thin an experience it really is. It’s very much ridiculous in a super fun, over-the-top kind of way that will make you grin ear-to-ear. And if you’re bored of whatever you’re driving (or it’s on fire), the action can be kept rolling by fluidly leaping from one vehicle to another what the game calls “air jacking.” If you’ve ever played Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice on PSP it’s very, very similar.Īt the start, Wheelman is an absolute blast. The former simply slows down time letting you shoot weak points for quick takedowns while the latter spins your ride 180 degrees to take out bogies on your six. The right stick foregoes the standard camera control for a left/right/forward ramming mechanic that breaks things real good and the d-pad activates two special moves called Aimed Shot and Cyclone Shot. While there’s standard car bashing, shooting of tyres (European spelling used in-game) and passengers in the driving action, some nifty abilities are at your disposal behind the wheel. Most of the time you don’t even need to be in something with an engine to quick-select, although certain side missions require it. A handy GPS map allows you to skip seeing the sights on the way to the killing by simply selecting the mission you want. The basic meat of the game has you running (driving is more appropriate) missions, in an open-world rendering of Barcelona, involving cars going boom-boom with a few on-foot, third-person shooter sections thrown in to mix things up. Think of it as the dream Michael Bay would wake from knowing exactly why he’s sporting morning wood. The focus of the game is action: be it on 4-wheels, 2-wheels or on-foot by bullets or driving heavy metal up someone’s ass. Then again, the story isn’t really something that will blow your mind or put you into deep thought afterwards, but more on that later. I’ve spoiled nothing about the story since it takes the game about 2 minutes to inform you Milo is not some questionable character selling his services to the highest bidder. Wheelman puts you in control of Milo Burik (Vin Diesel), an undercover agent sent to Barcelona to investigate gang activity and attempt to put a stop to it. There was even a point when, due to Midway’s financial hiccups, it looked like we’d never get to see Vin Diesel be fast and furious all over the streets of Barcelona until Ubisoft stepped in with its codpiece of justice to give a brother a publishing hand.ĭid the tumultuous development, delays and developer money troubles end up sending this to the junkyard or was the high-octane, Diesel-powered machine too strong to be stopped? Or maybe it’s like a Honda Civic? It was announced back in 2006, which may as well be a century ago in game land, slipping on and off the radar as it hit development delay after development delay. Wheelman is one of those games that many people had probably forgotten about.
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