"Whiplash - Crash Valley" ist ein Ragdoll Simulator.

Das Pinzip kennt man von leidlich witzigen Games wie den "Goat Simulator". Wir bewegen uns aus einer Third-Person Perspektive durch eine eher übersichtlich angeordnete Stadt und schmeißen Dinge und Leute um. Ein Tastendruck und unsere Spielfigur reagiert wie ein Ragdoll.

Ursprünglich entwickelt, um sterbende oder verletzte Körper in Videospielen darzustellen, ist ein Ragdoll Algorithmus nicht vorberechnet, sondern wird immer in Echtzeit von der Physik-Engine berechnet. Dadurch können Körper realistischer in sich zusammenfallen.

Irgendwer kam dann auf die wenig glorreiche Idee, dieses Prinzip in albernen Fun-Games zu nutzen, die vor allem bei den inhaltsleeren Youtubern auf großen Anklang stießen.

Was beim "Goat Simulator" aufgrund einiger kreativer Ideen noch zumindest zeitweise spaßig war, entwickelt sich in "Whiplash" zur Katastrophe. Und das liegt nicht am Setting, denn einen Crash Test Dummy als Protagonisten zu wählen ist durchaus sinnvoll und naheliegend. Das liegt an dem horrend kaputten Zustand des Spieles.

Und damit meine ich nicht die Ragdoll Physik, die so funktioniert (oder nicht funktioniert) wie sie soll. Richtig furchtbar ist der technische Zustand auf einer viel grundlegenderen Ebene.

Gleich in den ersten Minuten bugte meine Spielfigur aus dem Anfangsgebäude, aus dem man eigentlich mit einem Schlüssel entkommen sollte, durch die Decke aufs Dach. Kurze Zeit später fiel sie durch die Karte und ich konnte mir die Welt von unten ansehen. Dann war eine Einblendung, die über den halben Bildschirm geht, nicht dazu zu bewegen, wieder zu verschwinden.

Und diese Fehler sind kein Zufall. Regelmäßig fällt man durch die Karte oder buggt durch Wände. Zudem ist die Übersicht grottig. Gerade bei wilden Loopingsprüngen weiß man meist überhaupt nicht, wo man sich überhaupt befindet.

Bei sovielen Fehlern kann der Entwickler noch so viele Rampen, Mixer und Hindernisse aufbauen, es ist einfach nur nervig, diesen Müll ertragen zu müssen.

2/10 Atmosphäre
-/10 Story
5/10 Grafik
5/10 Sound
3/10 Spielmechanik
2/10 Balancing
3/10 Spielspass

Total-Crash.

ist dont starting the game give me the money back :(

Does not even work

I played a little while ago and when i started up it would keep on crashing my pc to the point where I had to do a memory wipe of all the things I did in the game (just get up to the screen of start) and I would NEVER recommend this game to ANYONE so if you come across this review then do not play.

The game crashes 1-2 minutes after playing.

Humble Bundle on sale at £1.74.

Seems like a decent deal, a fun ragdoll type game that would be fun. I should have known better lol

Twice i've installed this game and twice the game has monumentally crashed on me. Everything stops responding.

I've seen videos on YouTube of the game working, So some genius has had it working, but not me nor a few others.

Buy at your own risk.

( And if the developer is reading this, get your game sorted )

I finally bought this on sale, since this seemed very fun. Being a test dummy, creating havoc, doing stuff, a big world... It sounded better than Goat Simulator. The graphics looked very great too!

Unfortunately, no matter how much I tried to like this and think I did not like it because I first played it when I was tired and that my tiredness caused me to dislike it, I'd rather just return playing as a goat even though currently I have little to do aside from causing random destruction in Goat Simulator. Why? I have many reasons:

First of all, movement: Running is just too slow, and vehicles tend to be hard to control. It became boring.
Controls: Especially Ragdoll and Interact commands are very unresponsive, and I doubt it's because my keys would be broken; as I am writing this, I have no problem with the keys R and E, the letters appear to this interface just as all the other ones.
Collectible items and missions: The game does not remember which items I picked up last time and what missions I did. If you close the game (or it crashes), you have to start all over again. You get the achievements, but the game does not remember a thing.
Houses: As far as I saw, all the houses can be entered, but it turned out that they are literally empty. Some have small toilets in the corner, but some are simply 100% empty small rooms.
Gamebreaking bugs: While bugs are a part of the game, there are some that make you relaunch the game (which feels like a quite a slow process): The menu icons not disappearing, physics bugging so that you can't walk and thus are forced to be on ragdoll all the time, dummy getting stuck into buildings, ground, etc. so bad you can't move... Those bugs are not funny.

I really, really wanted to like this, and this has lots of potential to be great. However, I did not find this enjoyable. It's a shame that this became my first refund. :(

DanTDM was responsible for making me buy this game

This Game SUCKS! Always CRASHING after a min or two Not worth it. I bought this game for my kid and now I want a REFUND but steam doesn't have any response yet for my REFUND REQUEST for days sigh.

This game seems good at first sight. Like Goat Simulator, but with a dummy!
However, this game is bad.
I'd rather eat a pile of brussel sprouts covered in liquorice then think about this game in any more depth.

Obviously, it's a copy of Goat Simulator.
However, Goat Simulator had actual good physics. The people models are literally looping animations, which would be fine, if the animations didn't look like something Picasso would vomit.
The game seems to have many poor attempts at being funny. The dummy has a walking animation where instead of looking goofy, he looks like he had all of his energy drained from him and then forced to walk a marathon. His joints look like they want to detach from this walking disaster of awful attempts at comedy. On a bike, he claps, examines the bike, and "cries." I can tell that the developers had someone from ABC comedy make the attempts at comedy.
As for the character models, they just loop poorly made animations, and when they are hit or very slowly walked into, their entire body will explode inwardly, causing them to literally lose all control of any bones or muscles on their body. They will suddenly appear as if they had never just suffered being a failing suicide bomber if you walk away, which is easy, because models in this game disappear if you are not within 1.5 metres of them. This game seems to not be able to load anything that isn't close to the dummy, like the idiot is almost blind, and just sees anything big around him, like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ building.

In conclusion, ♥♥♥♥ this game, don't buy it, buy Goat Simulator and Hollow Knight, and maybe drink some tea, because making 100 cups of tea, boiling the kettle for every cup, would be more fun and more productive then finding something good about this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

Please, developers, kindly, eat a giant pile of ♥♥♥♥ off.