Wearing its Mad Max: Fury Road inspiration on its sleeves, VROOM KABOOM is an intriguing concept. It?s a tower defense game, but it?s also sort of a driving game, and also kind of a card game. You can also play it in VR, because we?re looking at a dart board and firing a handgun at it. This free-to-play/premium game wants you to try it out based on its weird, hybrid concepts, but doesn?t quite have enough oomph to keep you hooked. Here?s why.
Gotta Throw Fast
In a round of VROOM KABOOM, you sit on one end of a long stretch of post-apocalyptic desert road, while your opponent sits on the other. You both have a couple of oil rigs, and because video game, one decides the other must be destroyed. To do this, each side sends various types of vehicles, weapons, and tools out via a customizable deck of cards. Pick a card, toss it out onto the road, and it turns into a rolling death machine, or a dinky little scooter or something. But this isn?t like most tower defense games, where you watch things play out from afar. Instead, you can actually drive the vehicles down the road, and pick up precious resources on the way to the end. There?s also an element of combat, as each vehicle has a trigger ability, and you can scrap with opposing vehicles to a certain extent. Make it to the end, and you can crash into one of the oil rigs to deal some damage. Rinse and repeat forever.

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