In what might be Rocket League's most concerning crossover yet, the one and only Lightning McQueen from Pixar's Cars is coming to the game.
Rocket League, for the uninitiated, is a game where you drive around as a car playing football. It's ridiculous, wacky, and when you get the hang of it pretty dang fun too! But up until now, there haven't been any crossovers where the car itself is alive. Sure, there was a Knight Rider crossover featuring KITT, a sentient car, but it's just a robot. Yet yesterday, developer Psyonix announced the Lightning McQueen bundle, which is adding in the iconic car portrayed by Owen Wilson in the original film (though no Wilson to be found in this particular bit of DLC).
The bundle includes the Lightning McQueen car, of course, which is the first car in the game to "feature dynamic expressions! Lightning will look around the pitch while you cruise the Arena, then narrow his eyes in focus as you approach supersonic speeds." This raises several concerns. Has Lightning McQueen been transported from another universe to take part in these games? Is he a particularly good footballer? And more pressingly, what does this say about the rest of the cars in Rocket League?
