Our favourite car-wrecking smash-a-thon, Wreckfest, will be available for the diminutive hybrid console on 21st June 2022.
After an initial reveal during a Nintendo Direct presentation in September of last year with a ‘Fall 2021’ target release date, things went awfully quiet.
However, now that a June release date has been confirmed, further details have emerged alongside a new trailer.
The game features a variety of hilarious vehicles, from combine harvesters to three-wheeled microcars and, quite literally, everything in-between. These can be driven across a lengthy single-player career or with friends online.
Visual fidelity
A ‘steady’ 30 frames per second is the target for offline races, which on the smaller screen of the less powerful device is the relative norm for racing games – Mario Kart 8 Deluxes‘ 60fps an exception rather than the rule. The key will be stability when a giant pileup is occurring.
Based purely on the slickly-produced trailer, the car detail seems to remain mostly intact and track-side furniture deformable such as tyre stacks. The vehicles look to crumple in a satisfying fashion, analogous to the existing PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Stadia versions.
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