Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions Critic Reviews

The controls are nearly perfect. I have never played a driving game with such precise controls before.

The variety of play, including obstacle courses, photo shoots, midnight races and stunt driving is staggering. Wreckless is a work of art.

It looks like something fresh, something that could only be done on the most powerful machine around even though it follows the old school videogame formula of low brow fun and more low brow fun.

I am the type of gamer who likes a game that you can just pop in and play. And this is exactly what wreckless is all about.

With the opportunity to choose to "save" your mission replay to the Xbox's hard drive after every undertaking, combined with the absolute treat of watching this enhanced, multi-camera replay, Wreckless takes the concept of replay to a higher level.

The only thing that really hurt the game was the lack of options and multiplayer functions.

A fun ride with two or three frustrating bumps along the way – I’m just hoping for some deeper missions in the sequel.

Playing Wreckless is like being repeatedly shot out of a cannon.

Extremely fun...The main flaw in Wreckless is in the area of control. The car handling dynamics are extremely loose to convey the feeling of being well...Wreckless.

It's loaded with special effects and the vehicles all handle very responsively (crucial for a good driving game). If you can live with the fact that you won't be playing it for months then this is well worth looking into.

All this beauty is mildly tainted by the fact that there are a few glitches in the game. Now and again a car will disappear, and you can drive through trees.

Solid audio effects round out the aesthetic package, but the obnoxious music score is best left silent.

Worth revisiting to admire the outstanding graphics and thrash the various motors within an inch of their life.

If you do find a happy medium between the controls and the game play, you'll find yourself actually digging the game - but like most good games, the fun is over way to quick, With twenty missions total in the game, we beat about seven of them within an hour.

An excellent arcade title...My almost singular complaint is that, like all arcade games, it goes by real quick.

There are a few overly frustrating missions that will drive you absolutely nuts too. I found myself saying, "wow this is the sweetest game," during one mission and then, "jeeze, is this annoying," in another.

Through what I assume is some kind of mystical voodoo magic, the game cleanly details every frame of a 100-mph car chase without batting an eye.

The lack of a two-player mode (reportedly dropped due to shipping deadlines) and no ability to simply roam around the city without time limits and seek out its many hidden areas and shortcuts is nigh-on criminal, especially the latter.

As it stands it's a poorly put together title that is just a good-looking, rotten apple.

All this eye-candy comes at a price however, the game is plagued with clipping problems that are, at times, completely ridiculous.