Destruction AllStars

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Spending — cosmetic purchases
FightingParty/CasualSports/Racing

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Stylized vehicular combat where cars smash and destroy each other in an arena; on-foot characters can be run down but there is no blood, gore, or human injury shown.

Spending cosmetic purchases
Low

Optional cosmetic microtransactions bought with a premium virtual currency for character and vehicle customization.

Spending pressure optional
Low

Cosmetic and currency purchases are optional and do not gate core arena play.

Who can reach your kid

Real-money spending

What it is

Destruction AllStars is a competitive vehicular combat game for the PlayStation 5 in which you pick one of sixteen colorful characters and their signature cars, then smash into rival vehicles to wreck them in a demolition-derby arena. When a car is destroyed the character leaps out on foot, dodging and rolling to grab a new vehicle or trigger a special ability, so the action stays fast and acrobatic. The combat is cartoonish and bloodless — the focus is crumpling metal and spectacular crashes, not injuring people. The game offered online multiplayer against other players and sold optional cosmetic items through an in-game currency, a feature critics flagged; its online servers have since been shut down, leaving only single-player modes.

How it's framed

The game frames its destruction as flashy sports entertainment — a televised 'stars and cars' spectacle where wrecking opponents is scored like a game show, with no real-world stakes, gore, or victims presented as suffering.

Details

Developer
Lucid Games
Publisher
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Released
2021-02-02
Metacritic 65critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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