Iron Studio hasreleased an updateforPacific Drivethat should help anyone who felt the Olympic Exclusion Zone was a bit too unfriendly. The “Drive Your Way” update adds a slew of difficulty settings to fine-tune your experience, along with some other goodies.
Difficulty settings are always a good thing. Personally, I like playing at the default or mid-range settings (yes, even when reviewing a game), but I’m not going to fault someone for picking “I’m too young to die.” At the same time, if you’re a “Nightmare” sort of person, then you may also lift the difficulty for a harder experience.
I’ll give you the list of difficulty options, and then I’ll talk some more about what else is in the patch. Here they are:
Beyond that, there are some new cosmetic options. This is mainly the ability to paint the wheels and bumpers. However, there’s a new antenna topper and dangly thing. If that’s not enough for you, a new cosmetic DLC pack is available on the storefront.
Lastly, you can now add custom songs on the PC version. This is probably the most exciting part for me – or would be if I was planning a replay. When I played through it for review, I kept getting the same five or six songs on repeat. They weren’t bad songs, but I hate listening to the same thing over and over because it drills into my head. The credits listed, like, a hundred songs, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t hear a lot of them because every time I flicked on the radio, it was “Doctor Juice.”
There area lot of peoplewho lovePacific Drive, and I feel kind of isolated in the fact that Ididn’t click with it. It’s enough that it’s one of those situations where I know everyone has their opinion, and that’s one of the few redeeming qualities of humans, but I’m so far away from some that I can’t help but raise an eyebrow. It wasn’t the difficulty I had a problem with, it just felt substantially padded and inconsistent. I dig the concept, and I love some of the things they did with it, but when I pulled up to the end credits, I was just so aggravated.
Anyway, try it yourself, you might like it.Pacific Driveis available for PC and PS5. The Drive Your Way update releases today.
