Auto Assault Preview

1Up brings us a quick preview of NCsoft and NetDevil's Auto Assault, after spending some firsthand time with the post-apocalyptic vehicular MMORPG. An excerpt to follow:
Auto Assault means it when it says it has "destructible environments" -- after a few timid moments of driving around things like walls, or people, or ancient ruins, we just started blowing them up. Virtually everything you smash into dust will yield quest items (for example, shattered glass), crafting items, or just loot to customize your ride with. We left the Biomek town of Root to go fend off the evil AI units in the neighboring area and had just a few moments of sparkles to gun the engine and avoid a meteor impact -- which promptly destroyed everything around it. If we'd ended up in the snowfield, we would have had to fight to keep control of the vehicle as it slid in the snow. All of this is even more important when you and your convoy of allies go to assault an enemy stronghold or seize an Outpost in PvP -- don't go looking for the gate in the wall; blast your way through and start running over defenders! Yep, PvP is entirely in cars, ala Twisted Metal.