The Wheelman (X360)

“An average game. For the most part you will be driving obviously, but there are missions where it's run and gun. That's a pretty concise summary of the game. There's also side missions which are all driving variants such as delivering packages,...”

“An average game. For the most part you will be driving obviously, but there are missions where it's run and gun. That's a pretty concise summary of the game. There's also side missions which are all driving variants such as delivering packages, street races, taxi missions, stealing cars, etc.

The driving is arcade style and cars take huge amounts of damage before they crash so if you're looking for a realistic driving game look elsewhere. You can ram other cars using the right analogue stick to damage them, although you can also use this ram to quickly avoid other vehicles.One of the nicest things in the game is special driving moves. If you've played Stranglehold then think about Tequila Bomb powers. As you speed and cause destruction, you fill up a meter, what you do with this meter is up to you. You can use it as a speed boost, or if you press forward you get a precision shooting mode, same with backwards on the d-pad and you spin your car 180 degrees and entire precision shooting.

The on foot aspects of missions are all cover and shoot, and as long as you make sure to stay in cover you should be safe. There's different weapons in the game but I reckon you could do the entire game with the basic pistol if you really wanted.

The game does get really repetitive, especially if you want to do all the side missions, there's no real difference to the gameplay throughout. There is a story to keep you interested but personally I didn't get into it much. Maybe worth a rent but I wouldn't suggest you go hunting it down. There's some more generic aspects to the game like finding all the stunt jumps and shooting statues hidden throughout the world but there's nothing particularly new or exciting that springs to mind.

This was a pretty lazy review but to be honest I don't feel like talking about the game much :P

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“Cool moves, but boring missions.”

“Cool moves, but boring missions.”

“This game is just plain super fun. The driving and crashing is a riot and the missions based gameplay is nice because you can make progress in 3-5 minute chunks, which is great for a gamer with young children always interupting. The airjack...”

“This game is just plain super fun. The driving and crashing is a riot and the missions based gameplay is nice because you can make progress in 3-5 minute chunks, which is great for a gamer with young children always interupting. The airjack mechanic is an absolute blast, I could just drive around for hours wrecking things and airjacking cars. Too bad this studio got shut down.”

“I know alot of people didn't care for this game. But for me it was pure fun. Something about driving a car around smashing the crap out of everything really appeals to me. This is definitely a rental due to extremely repetitive game play. ”

“I know alot of people didn't care for this game. But for me it was pure fun. Something about driving a car around smashing the crap out of everything really appeals to me. This is definitely a rental due to extremely repetitive game play. ”

“Wheelman is like the smaller, simpler, cheaper version of Saint's Row. An open-world mission-driven diversion filled sandbox game, focused more on the driving than the on-foot mechanics. Shame that the challenge curve is near unplayably broken.”

“Wheelman is like the smaller, simpler, cheaper version of Saint's Row. An open-world mission-driven diversion filled sandbox game, focused more on the driving than the on-foot mechanics. Shame that the challenge curve is near unplayably broken.”