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TERRA TECH
PC
Platform: PC Genre: Open World Design and Construct ESRB: Everyone Publisher: Payload Studios Developer: Payload Studios
Terra Tech is for one who desires a well rounded, and exceptionally enjoyable game
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saturated in the freedom to construct and battle for hours on end
erra Tech, by Payload
Studios is a fabrication,
and combat focused
open world indie game,
whose stage is set on a
hostile, and alien planet, taking a
unique approach to survival by
altering its focus in favor of
gameplay centered around
creations. It does an excellent job
of doing so though it’s
mechanics, and its inclusion of
side quests all while telling the
story of several corporations
spanning the globe who set their
sights on alien worlds in response
to humanity’s struggle regarding
sustainability. These corporations
heavily invest in numerous
prospectors, all competing with
each other for the ultimate
abundance of riches and glory.
The player serves as one of
the prospectors thrown into a
hostile environment following a
crash landing. The player is
incentivized to grow, mine,
construct, and vanquish in order
to become the greatest
exoplanetary prospector.
The player must use resources
within the environment to create
new parts for their expanding
fleet of vehicles, and produce
profit to serve the
aforementioned purpose, and
begins the game as a cab, an
extremely basic craft which the
player is encouraged to
conveniently upgrade during the
tutorial. This cab serves as the
center of operations of every
vehicle in the game, and must be
protected at all cost, or it’s
destruction will result in the
death if it’s associated vehicle.
The player is given an
expanding array of parts to
choose from to expand on their
cab, which are unlocked by
enhancing one’s license with their
associated corporation. Each
corporation in the game, of which
there are four contains its own
set of blocks which reflect their
company, and possess different
pros and cons in any given
scenario. The four primary
corporations in the game whose
licenses the player obtains in
chronological order are; GCO,
Geocorp, Venture, and Hawkeye.
GCO is a corporation with basic
technology that excels at being
average, and in-between in
regards to speed, combat
potential, and resource collection,
which makes it quite versatile and
adaptable to multiple scenarios.
Geocorp sets its sights on
mining, with large tools being it’s
forte, and neglecting “traditional”
forms of weaponry; and while
Geocorp lacks speed and is
limited to short range melee
alternatives, it excels in weight
capacity, and excavation. Venture
is quite superb when it comes to
speed, and puts much effort into
aesthetics (whether this effort is
in vain depends on personal
taste), however, Venture is
lacking when it comes to carrying
capacity, and health, while mainly
bolstering small arms fire.
This game also contains a
unique style of base and vehicle
construction, which incorporates
simple mechanics, and an
appealing approach to
fabrication. The game forces the
player to design, plan, and
engineer in order to work around
environmental obstacles while
generously supplying an
abundance of creative freedom
to the player. The entertainment
value and replayability of this
game is quite noteworthy due to
the vast amount of potential in
regards to crafting and planning,
which the player must tap into in
order to outsmart hostile
prospectors, and maximize
profits. The building aspect of the
game alone is enough to supply
the player with hours of
entertainment, and is still being
improved, as the developers
continue adding new content and
possibilit y into the game.
For one who desires a well
rounded, and exceptionally
enjoyable game saturated in the
freedom to construct and battle
for hours on end, Terra Tech is
quite an ideal game to invest
time in. While the game does
have its hindrances, they are
relatively few and far between.
Not only does this game already
play very well for the most part, it
still has not reached its full
potential, as Payload Studios is
attentively listening to their
community, adding new and
exciting content to the game
which has no sign of ceasing any
time soon.
7.8/10