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Playing Wreckfest while learning to drive was surprisingly helpful
- Playing racing game Wreckfest helped unknown author learn how to cope with their road rage while simultaneously learning how to drive.
- The game itself is aggressive, often involving destroying clapped-out bangers, and is a perfect method of letting loose the anxiety that can come with driving.
- It's about throwing away your fear of messing up in the most mortal way, the helmet-wearing drivers of Wreckfest can get squashed and compressed into funny shapes as the vehicle crumples impossibly around them.
- For many people, mass driving is a metaphor for the wilful ignorance of mortality that accompanies humans day-to-day; the fear of death is a rational phobia among drivers.
- Games like Wreckfest are perfect stress relief for the life confined not by the regulations of the road, but by fear, as players know that their avatars will never be hurt, so they can take risks that they wouldn't take in the real world.
- Wreckfest and other games in the same vein are an escape from overwhelming safety precautions, the risk of hurt or death, that can be completely forgotten in favor of smokily drifting around a corner like a scrambling cat skidding on kitchen floor tiles.
- Playing games like Wreckfest, which offers a chance to forget the safety measures while learning to drive, doesn't make the danger involved in operating a multi-ton vehicle for humans completely disappear, but it makes it easier for them to handle.
- Video games can teach players coping mechanisms to deal with real-world stresses such as driving in highly-congested urban environments.
- The game can be seen as perfect stress relief where players can ultimately drive around with no real rules.
- Galvanizing effects of video games can help players handle overwhelming stress and, ultimately, prepare them for real-world driving.
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