Featuring 30 brutal concept cars, including muscle, agile, monster, buggy and SUV vehicles, racers compete across 10 fully destructible maps, in eight action packed gameplay competitions, including vehicle mêlée combat, demolition derby, group derby, plant the bomb, protect the convoy, chase, finding and escorting your team mate and checkpoint challenge.

Throughout competitions players compete across a range of destructible maps including a black market, stadium, factory, ship, backyard and various arenas and can also take control of environmental factors such as tornadoes to destroy opponents' cars. Players can also upgrade their cars in both the garage and shop.

To fuel the mayhem and carnage each car can be customized with innovative melee weapons including a flame thrower, sonic boom, blades, magneto pulsar and duel saw. 

Smash ‘N’ Survive features campaign mode, two player split screen and six player online multiplayer will be available in April 2012 as free DLC.

In total 19 missions are on offer in the single player and also there are various game modes available in Single Player and multiplayer modes for players to compete in and include the following gameplay competitions:-

• Check Point Race
• Mosh Pit which is destruction derby mode
• Boost Me Up which is pickup collection by performing various stunts
• Gang Wars which is team derby mode
• Find Your Mate which is escorting your mate to the safe zone from an enemy dominated place
• Plant Bomb which is planting and diffusing a bomb in enemy category
• Territory Control

Players unlock new stages and rewards as they progress through the campaign based on times they have achieved, as they compete in one of ten environments including the Stadium, Arena, Black Market, Junk Yard, Factory and Ship. Each new stage offers a new objective to be completed from surviving the onslaught attack of enemy vehicles in mosh pit to completing a set of stunts as you compete against the stop watch in check point. Later stages include planting and defending a strategically placed bomb and escort missions.