Clustertruck – Review

Clustertruck – Review

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Clustertuck is a simple concept put into an enjoyable package. Graphically simple, this is a fun first person obstacle course style game that gets progressively harder as you move through the campaign. Much more is offered with a built in map editor and the ability to share and download courses others have created through the steam workshop. Your ultimate goal in each level is to cross the tops of the trucks and reach the goal line. You fail a level whenever you touch the ground or hit an object in the environment such as a branch. The difficulty comes in as the behaviour of the trucks is randomized. They may continue along the intended path or they may ram into each other, flip over, and explode. There are also other environmental events that can hinder your progress. To help you your style points that are earned on level completion can be spent to gain some abilities such as double jumps and time slows.
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A fairly simple start

The graphics in Clustertruck are fairly simple as the trucks are just white 18 wheelers and the environments are rather sparse, but that is not really an issue as you’ll be spending most of your time trying to stick that landing and not looking at the surroundings. There are different environments such as desert and forest but that just gives you a different colour passing you by. There are some objects that will interact with the trucks as well such as giant pendulums or falling rocks but all the animations and frame rates stay wonderfully smooth. The music and sound are mostly serviceable in Clustertruck. Nothing stands out as particularly amazing or bad and I found I’d rather play something from my library to get me going.
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Please don’t hit me

The controls for Clustertruck are very simple and responsive. You can use mouse and keyboard, keyboard alone, or a controller and can map the keys any way that suits you. There are almost no training missions however so besides telling you to press shift to sprint you need to figure out how to use any abilities you unlock. I’ll tell you getting screenshots with one hand while playing with the other and trying not to die too much sure was not easy.
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Trees and stuff

I would love to see what kinds of tracks the community creates for cluster truck over time. There are already a number of extra stages available on steam to try out and I’m sure many more will pop up over time. Clustertruck is quite fun and worth a download. It’s fun game that can be played for a short time to knock out a couple stages or put hours into climbing up the leaderboards and grinding points to get that next awesome ability.
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Peter

Xbox gamer that is fond of single-player adventure titles but love the older classics the most. I think I hold the world record for most amount of people simultaneously mad at me during a game of Mario Party 2.

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