Wheelman game launch trailer

Wheelman starring Vin Diesel on Xbox 360Wheelman released to stores today and is available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. It releases in Europe on March 27th, 2009.

Wheelman stars a digitized Vin Diesel (likeness in all) who plays the character of Milo Burik. In the game Milo is a driver who comes out of his retirement to save a woman from his past which leads him to Barcelona, Spain, and right into the middle of a gang war.

The sandbox action game is set in an open-ended world that combines lots of driving with missions ala Grand Theft Auto. There game contains a total of 31 story missions and 105 side missions. A lot of the missions are vehicle based but the game also includes on-foot 3rd-person missions that includes a cover system similar to Gears of War.

One of the coolest features of Wheelman is a realistic city modeled after Barcelona, Spain with fully destructable objects, realistic alleyways that can be taken and lots of shortcuts through office blocks. The game contains a ton of real-life monuments, neighborhoods, and buildings such as:

* Arc de Triomf
* Avinguda del Paral·lel
* Casino Marina
* Drugstore Club
* Embaixada de Rumanía
* Las Arenas
* Plaça Colón, Barcelona
* Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
* Parc de la Ciutadella
* Plaça de Catalunya
* Plaça de la Monumental
* Sagrada Família
* Torre Agbar