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Today I decided to take a look at the game T.E.C. 3001. While this game has been on Xbox Live Indie Games for quite a few years, it recently came out on Steam. T.E.C. 3001 is an endless runner game where you play a robot that needs to collect leftover energy for humanity.
There are a few ways to play this game. There is both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. Unfortunately Multiplayer is only Local. So there is no playing with friends unless they are in the same room as you. Anyway, in Singleplayer, you can either do the Campaign Mode or the Endless Mode. The Campaign Mode consists of 41 levels which vary between 3 different race types: Speed Run, Drag Race, and Free Run.
The first mode, Speed Run, is a mode where you are set to 3 lanes on a track and you dodge obstacles by just movie left or right. You can also can jump and slide under obstacles as well.
The second mode, Drag Race, has you stuck to the middle of the track, you can’t move left or right. You need to reach the end within a certain time. To do this you need to activate boosts as you run over them. Each time you hit it right you get an extra boost. If you activate it too early or too late you get slowed down. You are also required to jump or slide under obstacles as you run as well.
The third mode, Free Run, is probably the harder of the modes. This mode gives you free movement anywhere on the track. These levels usually have multiple paths you can go, a lot of times making you jump from one path too another to get around obstacles.
You will have to manage your speed on some rounds for if you are going too fast or too slow it can mean the death of you. For example if you are going too fast around a sharp bend you are most likely to go flying off the edge. If you end up being too slow at a certain jump you may not make it to the next platform.
Another way to play the game in Singleplayer is the Endless Mode. This is basically a Free Run mode where you try to last as long as you can. As you go, you end up getting faster and faster till almost everything is just a blur around you.
As I mentioned earlier there is also a Local Multiplayer mode where you can play split screen vs a friend. You can race on all three of the modes in game: Free Run, Drag Race, and Speed Run.
T.E.C 3001 is a good game to hop on and off if you are craving some high octane fun. This game can get frustrating at times when you can seem to beat a level. Some levels, especially the Free Run ones, can be really challenging at times, but when you finally beat them you can’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment. You would most likely find yourself going back to older levels to try to get better scores.
The gameplay, the music, and the general look of T.E.C 3001 make this an awesome game to have in your collection if you are looking for a challenging, high energy game. Also it is pretty cheap ;).
You can buy it on Steam, as well as on the Xbox 360 though the Xbox Live Store.
By now most of you will know about the closure of Gamespy and the problems it’s going to cause to a great many games that used to have their multiplayer servers supported by the service. A lot of these games are many years old and have been left high-and-dry by their developers and published simply because of lack of resources or incompatible older software issues (even if most if not all of these games will hopefully eventually be supported by Gameranger).
However, one company has updated one of their original games which is over a decade old by now, thanks to help by community members in documenting bugs and constructing a patch for multiplayer. The game? Halo.
Bungie says that thanks to the efforts of a small number of players (named are community members Technut and kornman00, and btcc22), they’ve been able to construct a patch to take Halo multiplayer off of Gamespy and have it supported in its own official multiplayer option through a browser-server application that was built specially for the game. The update also includes bugfixes that relate to compatibility with newer software.
If you want to download the patches yourself, they’re linked below. Happy gaming!
The people behind the revival of Wasteland have completed a video to promote the new Wasteland 2. However instead of waiting to release it, they’ve stuck it up there right away to show off what defines the game. The footage consists of newsreels to bring the viewer up to speed on the elements that will be present within the game.
Spintires is a Kickstarted project that has had a development time that’s been over a year long. It started as a tech demo which I remember seeing played back in January or February of last year at some point. The game has now evolved to the point where a trailer has been released and it looks interesting to say the least.
The main goal of Spintires is delivering your cargo, in this case loads of timber, to your destinations without getting stuck, tipping over, losing any of the cargo (or as little as you can manage) and obviously as quickly as you can manage to do without expending too much fuel. There’s a lot to take in here for a game that could be called a ‘driving sim’ under some conditions. The game is set in the wildernesses of 1980-90 Russia.
“Plot a course and navigate using landmarks whilst trying not to loose your precious cargo, becoming stuck in the mud or depleting all of your fuel reserves. Plans accordingly so that you can pass a fuelling out-post and stop by when required.” the team behind it wrote of the game, hoping that the game will become replayable simply because the physical elements of the game are dynamic. Roads can become very pitted and harder to navigate the more they are used and so on.
The game will be released on June 13th and will be moddable.
