Konami has its hands full in good order now . It has promising remakes of bothSilent Hill 2andMetal Gear Solid 3 : Snake Eaterin the works , but those are n’t the publisher ’s only upcoming game . In late years , Konami has revitalise its publishing effort to admit original titles from diminished studios ( see this summer’sCYGNI : All Guns Blazing ) . Its two coming behemoths should n’t overshadow one of those little projects : give up at All Costs .
The unveiling statute title from Far Out Games is a disorderly ode to classicGrand Theft Auto games(particularlyGTA 2 ) , but with more slapstick wittiness . It takes place in an alternating 1950s America where farm boy Winston Green lands a Book of Job as a deliverance man with a trustfulness getaway truck . It all sound slow - going enough , except for the fact that any and everything in the quiet townspeople of St. Monique can be destroyed .
I show the first 90 minutes ofDeliver At All Costsat a late Konami preview case and walk away smiling . It ’s already mold up to be a unambiguously entertaining vehicular drollery of erroneous belief . If it can keep escalate the creative laugh I ’ve seen already , Far Out Games could have a small - scale hit on its hands .
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Deliver At All Costsis a top - down driving game where player need to make more and more kookie deliveries across town in a beat - up truck . If that sound a little familiar , that ’s because this is a much fully grown version of a small viral hit . Before forming its studio , a few of Far Out Games ’ team members create a version ofDeliver At All Costsas a student game . They free it on itch.io for costless , where it gain the attention ofPC Gamer . That press hit led to a conversation with Konami who greenlit an expand version . While the originalDeliver At All Costs(now listed asDelivery Man ) was a speedy colonnade biz , this one is a 10 + hr dangerous undertaking with more narrative focusing and hand - crafted missions .
My demonstration starts when Winston Green hears an old - timey radio ad for a company cry We Deliver . They ’re rent a number one wood , so he heads to their offices only to get wind that he heard an outdated ad . Still , the company open him a chance and a pickup motortruck to try out the Book of Job . It ’s no well-situated task though ; Winston must complete totally nonsensical project that twist driving into a hilarious battle with physics .
In my first missionary work , I have to transport a box of fireworks in my motortruck bed . As soon as I put my metrical foot on the gas , all hell breaks loose . Fireworks start shooting from the back as I drive and cars bollix up in front of me . I ask to swerve to head off them , as well as stray pyrotechnic that can damage my elevator car . The mission immediately highlights the chaotic joy ofDeliver At All Costs : Everything is destructible . I can smash through any building , which collapses into 100 bit . When my car takes damage , watch out as its front bumper slowly crumples . I eventually lose a wheel and start skid across the pavement . I can even smash into pedestrians , send their consistence rag - dolling across the screenland . It ’s a riot .
All of that would escalate throughout my demo . My next mission would fill my motortruck bed with watermelons that I needed to hale around town . I ’d ask to safely deliver 20 to my address — but cathartic had a different plan . As I tug , the melon bounce around my truck bed and spill out if I swerve too recklessly . That ’s not the only affair that can break my mission . Whenever I make a walker , there ’s a hazard they ’ll get maddened and round the truck . I involve to make a careful but rapid outflow when an angry citizen starts smacking my motortruck , inadvertently shaking watermelons out . It ’s a comedically tense succession , like a slapstick version ofThe Wages of Fear .
The entreaty here is that St. Monique is an unpredictable sandpit that ’s prone to emerging accidents . In one mission , I have to labor a live Marlin around town . It wriggle in the back of my truck , sending my car jolt left and right circumstantially . I require to keep it calm by driving through barrels of Pisces the Fishes food or else it ’ll make a fracture for it . I learn that the surd way when I labour too close to a river and the hungry fish flops into the water , forcing me to restart my delegacy . When I recall that outcome to the developers , they laugh in mental rejection . Even they ’re surprised by their own plot .
Those areDeliver at All Costs ’ honest moment — ones that are more naturally laughable than its hokey writing . There ’s still some body of work to do on the presentment side before it launch . The build I played let in some poor - quality vox acting that sounded suspiciously robotic . I get the common sense that those might have been placeholder audio frequency ( or at least I hope ) , so it seems like there ’s some polishing to come .
So long as the rough bound get smooth out , Konami should have something unique on its hands . give up At All Costsis playfully nostalgic while still doing something that feels solely imaginative . It ’s the kind of creative left turn that fully grown publishers used to take more regularly , give me hope that the manufacture is starting to see the value in smaller games again .
