14 DAY TRIAL // We've just received word that Buka Entertainment and Targem Games have announced a new racer for the PC. The game is called Sledgehammer, and it's really an action-racer. According to the folks involved with the game, Sledgehammer will create total chaos on your PC's monitor as it takes place on America's highways, where practically anything can happen - from getting shot while driving your car to getting crushed while riding your bike. The game is set for a presentation at GC in Leipzig, Germany.
If you're not from the States, here's how the Russians see it (not that they're wrong): "The American highways are more dangerous than ever? it doesn't matter if you drive a car, a bike or a truck, the chances of being shot, smashed, nailed and/or crushed are of 9 out of 10. Consequently, only the craziest or those with enough weapons dare to hit the road."
Basically, Sledgehammer is a "pure action game on wheels," as the game's developer describes it, but also a "festival of demolition and speed," in just one game. Of course, if you want to do anything more than just get killed, then your top priority is to drive the most powerful truck and destroy every opponent that you'll find on the road. Or... (you're going to love this) you can just enter multiplayer mode and challenge your annoying neighbor one floor above you.
The game's key features look a little something like this:
Hours of gameplay in the main campaign and 6 minigames in the single player mode.
Multiplayer for up to 8 players simultaneously in cooperative and deathmatch mode. Destroy huge trucks joining forces with your friends or become the best truck driver in a fight to death.
Upgrade your truck using the money you get from successful deals. Melee, light and heavy weapon, armor, nitro? make you truck an unstoppable machine of destruction.
Here's Sledgehammer's official website and HERE's the game's official trailer. Before you watch it, keep in mind that Buka Entertainment and Targem Games are all about gameplay. If the game's visuals don't exactly blow your mind away, the overall gameplay experience most likely will. The game looks like a hell of a lot of fun, especially in multiplayer.
You have a bunch of screens below too. Check them out!
