What’s the fun in nailing the first half of a level, only to discover than random physics outcomes have ruined your chance of completing the second half? Another level required me to survive a head-on collision between two opposing fleets of trucks.
Other times, I’d be jumping blindly over a cliff to land on some moving trucks below me, and some weird, unseen physics nonsense ten or twenty seconds earlier would have already knocked all my target trucks off another cliff. Sometimes I’d be standing glumly on the back of a truck, see an unfortunate crash take place in front of me, and simply reload the level to get a more reasonable setup for my planned jumps. Often Clustertruck feels like something I could get really good at, but sometimes, I’m playing a Clustertruck level and it strikes me as such profound physics bullshit that not only could I never get good at it, I’d never want to.įor example, there are levels where a randomly-occurring truck crash in the first two minutes of the level - a crash that behaves differently each time, depending on how the physics shake out - can dramatically affect your ability to make time-gated jumps. Me? I do not play Clustertruck with even graceful competence, much less mastery. Out of all the games I’ve played this year, it’s probably the one I’m most excited to see someone play with graceful mastery. I would love to see someone totally master its movement mechanics and just go to town on some of its absurd physics-hell levels. I spent a lot of my time playing with a huge grin on my face.Īnd I’ll give Clustertruck this: I cannot wait to see people speedrun this game. Legitimately, it is a great idea for an extremely silly game. You leap with powerful strength and speed from truck to truck, navigate their physics-hell crashes, gain extra points for leaping off midair trucks, and use a variety of equippable abilities and items to help you manage the chaos. Let’s get this out of the way: Landfall Games’ Clustertruck is a first-person platforming/bizarro-parkour game where the play area is made up of hundreds of of identical, bright-white, high-speed big-rig trucks.
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