The unique visual style of Wheel World, a relaxed nature and a delightful soundtrack promise the encouraging bike adventure in a world where they are more common than cars. But the gameplay itself, progression and barely narrative there breaks this promise with experience, which is becoming more and more frustrating and monotonous, the more you play. Racing on armpits, dull dialogue and an empty world made me wonder why the inhabitants of the world of the circle love to ride a bike.
The world of the circle jumps straight into the cyclist’s action, and the hero Kat will come across a special bike of ghosts responsible for helping dead ghosts to move from this world to afterlife through something that is called a great change. To do this, the executioner must assist the spirit again in the re -room of a bicycle capable of a great change with legendary parts, and the Wheel World formula does not last long: go to the open world, get a sufficient number of representatives to challenge the best cyclists of each area, filling out other races and win their legendary part. This is a basic premise, forcing players to interact with various signs of questions around the map, which are disclosed after the bell sanctuary calling in each area – is very similar to the customary formula of the Ubisoft tower – but it gets flat.
The open world is divided into several separate areas, including a forest location reminiscent of northwest Pacific, a vineyard similar to the Tosk, autumn coast and many others. In addition to visual changes, these locations do little to change the bicycle game. Sure, browsing vine in the vineyard slows you, and the forest area has greater height changes than the coast, but if you stay on the main path of each breed, they do not do much to change the formula. And this formula is rinsed and repeated. Different question marks on your map become one of three things: a race, a drone from a rarely mentioned Cyclorp company, which rewards your efforts to buy parts or supplier of bicycle parts.
Each breed begins with a conversation with a group of motorcyclists and although they are visually separate with a bizarre dialogue full of puns and pop-pop, there are no differences in how they race. I rarely lost the race and tried to find any challenge in them. Fortunately, additional goals, such as finding the hidden letters “kat” all the time, gave me something to do, while my opponents AI fought for keeping up. In the game built around races, this is particularly disappointing that races never threw me or surprised me. Even the courses themselves are uninteresting, except for an occasional jump. Even worse, the courses are reflected between the uninteresting and annoying, especially in the last area of the game, which introduces a lot of urban architecture and a lot of vehicles that disturb.
Physics of collision, whether with other drivers, vehicles or buildings, often feel broken and unfair. Coloring with another cyclist gently breaks the game, rejecting me from the course in a way that doesn’t make sense. Sometimes the executioner reflects from vehicles; At other times it crashes, and when you crash in the world of the circle, you will go back in seconds in the race, often placing you in the last place, even if the other seven races were so far behind, you couldn’t even see them. It was the only challenge I stood with: a breakdown, unfairly placed far far and have to go back to the first place. But the races are so uncomplicated that catching up the arrears was not a provocation.
Even the bike itself does not seem great; At best, it is useful, and when his physics seems, he seems to ride a bike through the mucus. There are many parts to find worldwide (one of the few reasons why you can discover a based path), and even more to buy from suppliers using tickets that you receive from completing concerts, such as finding hidden jumps, but no matter how I adapted my bike, I did not feel a diminutive variety in terms of activities. Collecting parts that made statistical bars get up the best, despite the fact that World World tries to force you to rebuild the bike in different ways; For example, the reconstruction of my bike for racing in the field can reduce my acceleration, but gives better grip, theoretically providing better experiences over gravel and dirt. My bike ready for the road still easily won off -road races and adapting my bike with different parts, which I quickly lost its glow.
While standard races around the world, which I finished to get a reputation, I got bored, I was hoping that races with the best cyclists of each region would present something more pleasant. But no; These breeds not only felt like different, I often laughed at those legendary riders who tried to remain overtaking other drivers. I laughed even harder when they hit the vehicle or construction and I bounce wild until they landed outside the screen. I am still not sure if it’s a function or a mistake. During the game I experienced many other problems, including gross pop-in, strange and irregular lighting and more; I hope that console versions achieve better results than Wheel World on my sturdy computer.
My biggest problems with history and dialogue were the most perceptible in these legendary races. After defeating the best driver of the Winnica region, she said something like, and I paraphrase here: “Oh wow, you beat me on your own pitch. You are a great race.” And then I would receive a legendary part and go to the next region. Despite all the best drivers, they feel a shadow of paper. Wheel World does nothing to justify his authority in this place focused on the bike.
The last minute turns tries to change the formula with the above -mentioned novel surroundings, but this is the worst of all, and question marks become the same elderly races, drones and suppliers. This leads to the finals of the game, which is disappointing and seems unfinished. I was shocked when the loans began to take place after four hours. It seemed that something was missing – the game really ended? Were his last moments? I must admit that Wheel World does little to build this finale or any of his narrative, be truthful, but the climax of this adventure fought like a pierced tire, not a triumphant ride, I promised with a great change.
However, there is one glowing point in the world of the circle and this is its soundtrack. This is a phenomenal selection of songs, the most critical attraction of every legendary race and something that I can’t wait to listen to when it is available outside the game. The curator through Portland and West Hollywood The Independent Music Factory of the Italians is doing it better, the Wheel World soundtrack is one of the best year. It is a pity that music was one of the few attractions, not complementary harmony to the rest of this adventure.
Wheel World is a combination of dull races and exploration, bad history and often clumsy game that has never been great. His unique artistic style and an excellent soundtrack lost on what is here, and putting on the game is more thrilling than anything that actually happens. When I crossed the Wheel World finish line, I didn’t feel anything about what I achieved, instead I am more excited to get out of this bike for good.
