(Preview game X360) The Wheelman

This vehicular melee idea puts the game closer to Burnout than Driver. You earn focus by popping wheelies on a motorbike or from drifting and colliding with street furniture. You can use that focus to boost your speed or slow time while you shoot your gun out of the window. One of the more unfeasible stunts is to swing your car 180 degrees, shoot the tires and radiator of the car following you, and then flip another 180 and carry on driving.

Which brings us to the plot. As a synopsis, it reads a bit like Need for Speed Undercover. You will control Milo Burik actually like Vin Diesel’s. You’re as a cop who has to work his way into the underground by driving fast and often. Player will drive into the Spanish Metro and chase a hijacked subway train. All this, to reach the thief who stole ‘potentially nation-breaking’ information, before he sells it to the gangs you’re working for. The focus tests have been positive, and you can see why, it’s instantly fun to play.

The Wheelman
Published : Midway
Developed : Tigon Studios
Genre : Action
Platform : Xbox360
Release date : February 16, 2009
Worth to wait : 90/100