I may not have my license, but that didn’t stop me from loving Pacific Drive

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Have you ever been lost in post-apocalyptic woods while being chased by explosive mannequins and hovering robots that can electrocute you? If not thenPacific Drive is set to change that. 

This action-adventure game is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland called the 'Olympic Exclusion Zone'. Armed with a trusty station wagon and a handful of scavenged materials it’s you against the world as you navigate all the weird, wonderful, and deadly mysteries this world has to offer. 

TechRadar Gaming got to sit down and play through a small demo of this upcoming game with Seth Rosen, the design lead for Pacific Drive. In this demo, we got to see just a snippet of everything on offer in this driving sandbox game. There were exploding ‘tourists’ spooky abandoned cabins, and a hell of a lot of electrifying enemies (literally).

Despite the real-world fact that I cannot, in fact, drive, a quality that will become very apparent throughout this article, Pacific Drive felt realistic enough to create heavy tension as the station wagon stumbled along darkened, misty roads, but simple enough that you don’t have to be a car mechanic to get your head around all the wonderful upgrades and expansions that you can make to your car.  

In my bravest moments, I ventured outside the protective shield of my vehicle into abandoned gas stations and rotted wood cabins to scavenge for materials that would become vital to my excursion through the Exclusion Zone. There weren’t a whole lot of materials to get your hands on in each location, so every single item mattered. I collected, rubber, nails, gas, and of course, some stylish clothes, all of