Review: TerraTech - The Meccano To Minecraft's Lego

Technically worth trying.

Kickstarted back in 2014, TerraTech is one of the more successful attempts to evolve the sandbox construction genre in a new direction. A sort of Meccano to Minecraft’s Lego, Terratech focuses largely on building vehicles (or ‘techs’) which can be driven or flown around a randomly generated world. You’ll get into fights, complete quests, mine resources and refine your creations as you explore, but not without some significant control frustration and some big questions about the long term appeal of the whole thing.

At the core of a TerraTech tech is a cab block which defines the direction of travel (hide it away as deep in your vehicle as you can for protection). Blocks attach to each other at points on a cubic grid along each face. Construction is easy to understand – anyone can stick a bunch of blocks together, slap some wheels on the sides, some guns on the top, a drill on the front and let the game’s physics engine handle the result in a believable way.

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