![]() After a while, you’ll work out how to control your leaps and gauge roughly where a surface should be as you land, but skill is only part of it – luck also plays a factor, and it’s here that the frustration can kick in. Your reckless dare-devilry is focused on you trying to get to a goal as quickly as possible, made hard enough thanks to the trucks weaving, bashing and crashing around you. This does not seem to be the safest form of travel. It is as if the suicidal rodents from the old Lemmings game started a road haulage company, and you decided to take a lift. The trucks themselves start each stage in neat formation, but within a second they’ll be steering themselves into a mass of moving platforms, ramming each other off of racing lines and into obstacles, off of cliffs, and through bizarre machines existing solely to beat vehicles into scrap. Recently released by developer Landfall Games, Clustertruck is a first person platformer, with you performing death-defying (or more commonly, death-causing) parkour by leaping around a course formed by the rooves of speeding lorries. Clustertruck carries that chaotic feeling too, though contact with the ground results in you being tagged by a speeding mass of trucks instead. ![]() I still have strong memories of playing off-ground tag as a kid, the mad scramble to leap onto benches, hang from railings and generally keep as far away from the ground as possible while friends do their best to tag you. ![]()
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