While Clustertruck is still in it’s early alpha stages, it’s looking promising to be quite the time sink on many a gamer’s computer. I was trying to get to the next level to give a big “fuck you” to the game, and show it that I could. I wasn’t even trying to get to the next level for myself. Start the match skydiving face-first into a building and end the game by beating your opponents in a. I wasn’t trying to get to the next level for them. It’s because of this simplicity that I continued to play the game for a number of hours, way after my colleagues had stop caring about my progress. Care to retry and salvage part of your self respect?”. It’s a simple “You lose, you suck, you should feel bad about yourself. With hectic play, visual flair and an easy to use level. The sporadically iffy controls make the last level is a total pain in the arse bordering on the unfair, but with a one in 90 fail rate it just feels petty to even bring it up.
Much like Super Meat Boy or it's ilk, there’s no faffing around with menus or load times. ClusterTruck is a simple game, and it manages to flawlessly pull off almost everything it does. The added dimension of movement does mix things up a bit, but the real selling point of the game for me was how easy it is to retry. The only real assistance it gave was that I could briefly slow my pace to a snail’s crawl and give one last thought to my virtual wife and kids before being smooshed under the wheel of a two-tonne truck.Īt its heart, Clustertruck is a platformer, but instead of the traditional 2D or 2.5D, it throws you into a 3D fray with explosions and lasers (you know what they say every time a truck explodes, Michael Bay gets his wings). You are given a slight aid in the form of the ability to slow time for a very short period, however in my experience this ability was relatively useless and went unused for most of my gameplay.
If you try to summon Beelzebub through sacramental sacrifice to aid you in your sacred quest to reach the finish line, you’ll lose - you, nor anybody else, has time for that before falling off a truck. You have to throw yourself from the relative safety of one truck into the brisk morning air of uncertainty and hope your lucky stars that the gods of fate have smiled kindly upon you as you descend into, for lack of a better term, a cluster of trucks, hoping you find your feet landing on a solid surface.
The challenge arises when the trucks start to move and beautiful scenic routes are replaced with laser beams, swinging hammers, and the edge of an ice cliff. The premise is simple jump from truck to truck and reach the end of the level. Have you ever been sitting there, minding your own business, and had the intrinsic desire to destroy the blessed calm that once filled your very being and, in its place, insert rage, anger, and a modicum of self-worth? Clustertruck may be exactly what you’re looking for. Previews // 4th Mar 2016 - 6 years ago // By Kris 'Kaostic' West Clustertruck Preview
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