Destruction AllStars is a chaotic video game, but probably not in the way Sony intended. The hyper-stylized vehicular combat game is full of monster-sized cars, loud crashes, and bright colors. It also contains a 50-car pileup of ideas all built to take full advantage of the PlayStation 5’s unique features. From haptic feedback to integration with the console’s card feature, there’s a lot happening under the hood of this month’s PS Plus freebie … so much so that the game’s developer is already walking some of it back less than a week in. Destruction AllStars’ easy-to-understand arcade gameplay provides some satisfying destruction, but a bevy of bizarre design choices, underdeveloped ideas, and forced PS5 features leave this multiplayer game stuck in park. The core idea behind Destruction AllStars is simple: It’s a multiplayer demolition derby where players ram into other cars to amass points. It takes the smash-em-up gameplay of Burnout, but removes the actual racing component. When it...
Easy controls; Exciting crashes;
Lacking online modes; Undercooked abilities; Overbearing microtransactions; Distracting DualSense support;