Wheelman
The Wheelman is a PS3 game that falls under the Genre of Adventure and it was officially released on the 27th March, 2009 by its publisher, Ubisoft. The game is rated as T or Teen (contain violent content, mild or strong language, and/or suggestive themes) which means that it is suitable for players who are more than 13 years old by ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), while the game’s developer is Midway Newcastle and Tigon Productions.
The Wheelman enables you to play the role of Milo Burik (played by Vin Diesel), a highly skilled American driver who landed in Barcelona to do undercover work and also infiltrate the city’s three biggest gangs to gather intelligence surrounding of a covert heist. In the end, he stumbles upon corruption activities and chaos while trying to stay one step ahead of local law enforcement and rival gangs. Milo has numerous special abilities like performing “vehicle melees” by using the right analogue stick, swerving into enemies, ramming them from behind or air-jacking cars which is a move where Vin Diesel leaps from his moving vehicle onto the roof of the one in front, subsequently kicking out the driver and takes away the vehicle. Players can also use the aimed shot and cyclone moves (spinning your car 180 degrees), where it enables you to shoot at enemies in slow-motion from over-the-shoulder perspective.
Review
In the Wheelman PS3 game, the story started in the streets of Barcelona where Milo Burik starts working as a getaway driver for a lovely lady Latino bank robber. The Wheelman’s game provides players with skillful display of vehicle handling especially Milo’s melee maneuvers like wildly skid between traffic, smash into enemies like gladiatorial chariots and swinging into handbrake turns. During the game, players can choose specific route, streets, parkways, or footpaths, of the Barcelona city. Although the Wheelman PS3 game does not support online gaming, it provides more than 30 missions and around 100 side-missions which include a third person on-foot shooting section. This third person section can be used during a mission. The circle allows players to crouch behind a cover, while the trigger button enables players to lock-on, aim target, to re-load the ammunitions and also shooting. There are also optional side missions that extend the longevity and provide opportunity of increasing the focus meter, vehicle health, attack power, and performance. Meanwhile, the Fugitive missions will assign you in the middle of enemy territory and challenges you to try and escape to a safe location. Players can also enjoy the scenery around Barcelona city, for example the La Rambla which has a vibrant mix of market vendors, tourists and street performers in real life. In terms of music, it comes with a Spanish-influenced soundtrack for some of the game’s loading screens, and also an orchestra sound in every vehicle chase. During a mission, the music will be locked, but players can choose between seven radio stations when driving around town.
This PS3 games are developed to look and play like a movie in an entirely digital performance of car chases and on-screen collisions. It is generally a driving game where the action has been split between mission play, event and free-play, with the breakdown working out to about 80% of it enabling players to spend time behind the wheel or on motorcycles, while 20% will be on foot mission. Besides that, the Wheelman features a fully destructible environment that allows players to take advantage of all special abilities and in-game features, known as ‘Wheelman Moves’. This is in line with the game’s philosophy which considers vehicles as the ultimate weapons of destruction.
