Decimate Drive is a car-based horror game where cars turn rogue and start hunting humans, and your objective in the game is quite simple, i.e., to run away from these murderous cars and use hindrances, turns, and your wits to avoid becoming their food. The plain concept of being chased by bloodthirsty cars seems interesting on paper, but does it deliver enough chills and thrills to keep a gamer hooked? We have mentioned our thoughts down below to help you decide whether this game is your cup of tea or not. Here’s our review of Decimate Drive.
Decimate Drive Review
1. Seeing Tom chase Jerry is more exciting than this
Playing Decimate Drive is like eating boiled potatoes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The gameplay is incredibly boring and repetitive, and it makes you rethink, “Maybe my taste in games is bad.” You’re going to have more fun while mowing your lawn, trimming your beard, or even rewatching your favorite episode of Friends for the 100th time compared to playing this dull and yawn-inducing horror game. Decimate Drive is made up of 4 main ingredients, i.e., dumb cars that chase you, a haunting aesthetic of nighttime, random noises, and yawn-inspiring boredom.
Watching Mr. Bean perform his hilarious antics, Tom being outsmarted by Jerry, or even watching wet paint dry is way more interesting than indulging in the vanilla gameplay of Decimate Drive. Only God can convince me to play this game again.
2. A hauntingly beautiful but hollow atmosphere
The amalgamation of neon lights, a pitch-dark sky, a melancholic atmosphere, snow-covered roads and trees, and astoundingly beautiful shadows creates an overwhelming visual experience for the gamer. Amazingly addictive visuals, a calm melancholic atmosphere, and the haunting vibe of Decimate Drive more than make up for its lackluster gameplay. The breathtaking visuals slowly create a haunted atmosphere that makes you feel slightly uncomfortable, alert, and scared with the anticipation of the unknown. The map looks gorgeous enough to make you want to free-roam on it like it’s GTA. This game is like a gorgeous girl who’s boring – you are mesmerized by her looks but you can’t even stand 5 minutes of conversation with her.
3. The visual effects are the only saving grace
The smooth edges of the car illuminated by the street lights, a haunting aesthetic that makes you feel as if you’re being chased by a psychopath, chillingly silent snow-covered roads that amp up the game’s creepy quotient, and the beautiful use of shadows and lighting – it looks absolutely stunning even by modern AAA game standards. The famous saying “A book is judged by its cover” stands correct for this game, as you are only going to enjoy this book’s cover and not the contents inside. Without being too harsh, we would say that Decimate Drive is soothing for the eyes and feels mildly entertaining solely through its visuals.
4. Never has gore felt more cartoonish
The visuals of blood splattered on the snow are usually a scary sight to behold, but the concept of being chased by a dumb vehicle makes it feel more cartoonish, non-scary, and less visceral and murderous in its visual tonality. The gore in Decimate Drive looks unintentionally funny, and it seems as if it wasn’t well thought out by the developers. You can appreciate the developer’s efforts in aiming to deliver a murderous aesthetic, but the truth is that it just doesn’t hit or even land near the bull’s eye.
5. The vehicles aren’t scary at all
If a murderous movie villain is chasing you, then it must at least look scary, like T-800 from the Terminator movie, the entity from the first Predator movie, or like one of the mutated humans from the Wrong Turn movies, and not some adorable kid who looks harmless. The similar case of cuteness is evident in Decimate Drive, i.e., the cars look too endearing and non-scary to be taken seriously as a villainous creature thirsty for your blood. The cars in Decimate Drive are not nothing but a joke. These villainous cars would have felt more menacing had they looked similar to one of the Decepticons from Transformers.
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