Pacific Drive Horror Survival Game Coming to PS5 Next Year
Sony uses its September 2022 State of Play event to announce Pacific Drive, a horror survival game that it's in development for PS5 with a planned 2023 release. Pacific Drive is being developed by Ironwood Studios, a studio based in Seattle, Washington comprised of developers who have previously worked on everything from the Call of Duty franchise to Sly Cooper to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Pacific Drive is Ironwood's first game, and Sony choosing to showcase it at the September 2022 State of Play suggests that the company has confidence in the project. Described as a first-person driving survival game, players in Pacific Drive explore the Olympic Exclusion Zone. In the world of Pacific Drive, the Olympic Exclusion Zone is a portion of the Pacific Northwest that was seized by the United States and walled off after government experiments caused «severe radiation, environmental collapse, and supernatural horrors.»
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The player character in Pacific Drive manages to get behind the walls and starts exploring the area to see if there's any truth to the spooky legends surrounding it. Players are able to upgrade and repair their vehicle using tools they loot in their journeys, though the roads change each time they venture out, similar to a roguelike game.
The Pacific Drive trailer shown at the State of Play shows off these various gameplay elements, with the player character referencing a map at their home base and venturing out in their station wagon. Along the way, they come into contact with all matter of bizarre phenomena, including dangerous storms, mysterious green goo that rises from the pavement, flying bug-like creatures, unnatural-looking
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