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

Truly Amazing

Update I had an issue where I lost most of my cars which wasn’t cool, but when I restored my purchases, everything seems to be back to normal! Phenomenal game, one of my favorites ever on mobile. Update…… i’ve been loving this game and then I went in today and almost all my cars are not showing I’m on the last group of races but all of a sudden almost half my cars that I’ve unlocked, and Purchased are gone! It can’t be that the game reset because it still shows my correct level and everything but all my cars are gone! I don’t know if this can be fixed but I’m pretty disappointed. I always give a new big release at least a day before I throw out bad reviews because of trouble at launch. They fixed it promptly and I’m amazed how well this runs on my older phone. From what I can tell it’s all here and plays amazing. On my phone! What an accomplishment, hats off devs, best $10 I’ve spent in a long time, maybe ever. I may even purchase the DLC car pack because this is definitely worth $20 to have this on my phone. I’ll update if I run into any issues but so far not a single hiccup. So all you people with no patience…change your one star reviews, this is a 5 star app if there ever was one.

Hey

You know, I wish I can play multiplayer on this side on the app side of this game but you cannot. I’ve been playing this game almost about a year or two years now it be nice if you guys do an update because I’m running out of options I pretty much completed this game, it’s getting really boring by playing by the side on the mobile if you guys don’t have money to get the game, yeah don’t give me wrong. It’s pretty good because once you get online going through Xbox or the PC side on this game, people will eat you up. Big time at least it’s free on this side. It be nice if I could switch my profile over to the Xbox side, but I don’t have that option right now. I’m at level 80 on this side you guys need to do something with this game or come out with the second one for Wreckfest. I don’t know when Wreckfest number 2 comes out. but this side is getting really boring. Please do something or let’s have an option for us to move our profile over to an Xbox side.

Great game turned into Cash Grab

This is a great part of one of my favorite games but unfortunately it seems the developers are just looking to squeeze a little more money out of this game. When I paid $10 for a game, I expected to be the full content. Having purchased this game on Xbox marketplace and all the DLC’s it was sad to find out they want an additional $18 for the full vehicle list having purchased this game on Xbox marketplace and all the DLC‘s it was sad to find out they want an additional $18 in in app purchases to get all the vehicles with no overlap to the Xbox version. I love this game and have spent several hours and dollars supporting the advancement of this title. I reached out to the developers and they quickly let me know I would have to re-purchase all content I already own which feels like a cash grab for a port of a game that plays better on Xbox anyway. Some issues I have are with the frame rate drops, battery consumption and phone temperature. Would be a five star review had they showed any customer support but as it stands I would recommend not spending the money on the app and just buying the console or PC versions of this game.

Still Working out the Kinks

This game is AWESOME! However there are still some issues that have been there since day one that haven’t been addressed along with some new ones after the recent update. The most frustrating one during gameplay is the new 360 mirror. I love the idea in theory, but when you utilize the review button and don’t hit it precisely you will be staring at the side of the car when you’re wanting to see what’s behind you or vise versa. There is also an issue that has been a problem since day one… the paint shop. I will change the colors and livery of the vehicle, save, and start a race and the changes will not save. While it doesn’t effect game play, this seems like a very simple fix to a problem that has been there since roll out. This being said, and a few issues not being said, this game continues to be incredible. I absolutely love it!

Where’s the Quality Assurance prior to launch?

Absolutely disgusted that they would allow this garbage onto the App Store. Can’t even open/load. Crashes immediately. Whose ever in charge of this port, needs to be fired. It was already delayed from October 25 to November 15, but yet they still managed to put out this steaming pile of horse dung. Unbelievable!! Obviously I will be getting a refund. Their mobile port team needs to be dissolved. Gross and unethical to allow a non functioning game that cost $10 onto the App Store. Truly nefarious. ****Update***** Problems fixed. Developers reached out. This was my favorite game on console and I was disappointed with initial state of release. But all is right in the App world and now I can rate the actual gameplay. Great port by the way. Please allow capable devices to download texture packs for even better visuals.

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