Gameplay
The game is set in an open ended world modeled after Barcelona, full of destructable objects, alleyways, shortcuts through office blocks and a total of 31 story missions and 105 side missions. While most missions are driving-oriented there are also foot missions which are played from a third person and incorporated a crouching system similar to the one used in Goldeneye.
Among the vehicles used by Milo Burik in the game is the Pontiac G8, shown in released trailers for Wheelman. Reports also indicate that the Opel Astra will be a drivable vehicle. In the demo, his license plate says MRTL KM8T which is a reference to Mortal Kombat
Plot
The protagonist, Milo Burik (a digitized Vin Diesel), is a driver who comes out of his retirement to save a woman from his past which leads him to Barcelona, Spain, and right into the middle of a gang war.
Development
The video game Wheelman was first announced in February 2006 by publisher Midway Games as the second of three titles in a joint collaboration between Midway and MTV Networks. Midway Games collaborated with Tigon Studios to design the game. After multiple delays over the course of around 3 years, Wheelman was finally released in many "major territories" including America, Australia and the biggest European countries on March 24, and on a worldwide span on March 27. The game is published, as well as co-developed, by Ubisoft.
Film adaptation
Simultaneously with the announcement of the video game in February 2006, a film adaptation was announced with Vin Diesel in the lead role and Rich Wilkes, who worked with Diesel on xXx (2002), was hired to write the script. Paramount Pictures and MTV Films were announced to collaborate on the project. Production of the film, with no script written yet, was estimated to be 18 months away from February 2006. The film will be a sequel to the video game, which will establish the background. The movie is set to be released in 2009 alongside the game.
Reception
The game has receieved mixed reviews, many of the reviewers critisizing the game for falling short of story mode and lacking any sort of multiplayer optionality whatsoever. IGN's Greg Miler gave the game a 4.9/10, which by the site's rating scale is translated as "poor", stating that he was hoping for the game to be "to be a guilty pleasure, like 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, but it's just guilty of being a poor game." Gamepro, however, gave the game a high 4/5, calling the game "a GTA-meets-Burnout romp." Gamespot gave the game a 6/10 saying "Wheelman offers plenty of movie-style thrills, although it's hamstrung by terrible on-foot gameplay.
System Requirements:
Wheelman
Publisher: Midway Games
Developer: Midway Studios - Newcastle
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 9 GB Free
Video Memory: 512 MB (NVidia GeForce 7900/ATI Radeon x1950)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Suggested system requirements:
Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz,
2 GB RAM
graphic card 512 MB (GeForce 8800 or better)
15 GB HDD
Windows SP SP2/Vista
لعبه سيارات رائعه The Wheelman (2009) [MediaFire]
