Wheelman

Barcelona becomes a reckless urban playground where roaring engines, collapsing street furniture, and criminal double-crosses share equal importance. Wheelman casts you as Milo Burik, an elite driver pulled into a gang war that spirals from routine jobs into explosive chases across a sunlit, densely packed city. The tone lands somewhere between a B-movie action thriller and an arcade racer, with Vin Diesel’s presence giving the story a knowingly over-the-top edge. Rather than aiming for realism, it celebrates impossible stunts, hard impacts, and escapes that leave traffic in ruins.

Most missions keep you behind the wheel, racing to objectives, pursuing targets, fleeing police, or protecting allies through Barcelona-inspired streets full of alleys, ramps, plazas, and handy shortcuts. Cars handle with an accessible arcade feel, while signature moves let Milo leap from one moving vehicle to another, shove rivals aside with a damaging side-slam, or trigger slow-motion precision driving during dangerous maneuvers. Thirty-one story assignments are supported by 105 side activities, including races, vehicle deliveries, gang challenges, and citywide events that encourage learning the road network. On-foot sequences shift to third-person shooting, supplying pistols, shotguns, automatic weapons, and even rocket launchers for missions where a car alone cannot solve the problem.

Its best moments come from treating every chase like a stunt sequence instead of a cautious race: smash through market stalls, cut across construction sites, and turn an enemy vehicle into a wreck with one well-timed impact. Barcelona’s streets are not as deep or reactive as those in later open-world crime games, and the shooting feels more functional than refined, but the driving mechanics remain the clear attraction. Wheelman suits players who enjoy the arcade chaos of Driver: Parallel Lines, the cinematic vehicle action of Fast & Furious, or the early open-city style of Saints Row. Veterans of older action games will appreciate its unapologetically pulpy design, while newcomers should arrive expecting a brisk, slightly dated, stunt-first sandbox rather than a modern crime epic.