

However, if your car isn't maintained, you can't do anything. Your station wagon is the only thing that can keep you safe when you're exploring the Zone. While most survival games focus on the player, in Pacific Drive, your focus is on the car. By returning to the garage, you can return to the shelter and then continue the cycle again. They decided that the garage would be a safe space for players to work on their car as they would take excursions into the Zone where they could grab resources. Ensuring you don't run out of gas and that your car can still run was an essential addition to the survival experience. Ironwood Studios found there was an overlap between resource management and the plate juggling you want from a good survival game. This was the initial seed of the game as a run-based driving survival game. These adulthood experiences in his station wagon provided a surreal vibe leading to Pacific Drive's inception. As an adult, he would take his station wagon to abandoned industrial sites and up tiny dirt trails.

Pacific Drive was inspired by creative director Alex Dracott's childhood experiences of taking trips via his station wagon around the Pacific Northwest. Tonight at the Future Games Showcase, Ironwood Studios presented a new developer diary for Pacific Drive. In addition, all new features of the more recent Xbox consoles work, including the ability to take screen grabs and record and share video of gameplay.// News // 11th Jun 2023 - 5 days ago // By Bex Prouse Future Games Show 2023: Pacific Drive The opening screen appears first then the game will load.Īll other aspects and features that would normally be available on an Xbox 360 or Xbox are available on the Xbox One/Series X/S too, including the hub on the former (which can be opened through a simultaneous press of the menu and view buttons on the Xbox wireless controller).

When a supported game is started on the machine, the current or last-gen console opens the emulator and, in all regards, the game works as if it was running on an Xbox 360 or 2001 Xbox. The Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S are able to play Xbox 360 and original Xbox games through emulation software that makes your console think it's a last generation machine for the purposes of playing classic games. How does Xbox backward compatibility work? But what games can you play from former console generations and how does it work? We explain all there is to know about the Xbox backward compatibility system here.
