Teardown Review (Steam)
For our Teardown Review, we need to plan the perfect heist using creative problem-solving, brute force, and everything around us. Teardown features a fully destructible and truly interactive environment where player freedom and emergent gameplay are the driving mechanics.
Teardown Review Pros:
- Decent voxel-like graphics.
- 3.19GB Download size.
- Steam achievements.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – screen mode, resolution, render scale slider, render quality, gamma, a field of view slider, barrel distortion, motion blur, and v – sync.
- Controller settings are dealt with in the steamy controller config system.
- Can rebind controls on the mouse and keyboard.
- Game settings to change your experience – adjust alarm time, adjust ammo, adjust health, mission skipping, and allow spawn.
- Sandbox settings – unlock all levels, and unlock all tools.
- Full Mod support complete with a featured mods menu.
- Four game modes – Campaign, sandbox, Challenges, and expansions.
- Fast loading times.
- On-screen button prompts for both the keyboard and the controller.
- First-person view.
- Tutorial signs as you play.
- Pick up canisters or items from the world.
- Vehicles and construction vehicles can be found, driven, and used.
- Handy overview camera showing the land and missions.
- Full physics mechanics.
- Your home is where you can mess around and take on missions.
- Ten locations.
- Plays as a destruction-based puzzle game.
- Infinite replay value.
- So much fun to play.
- Play how you want and it is highly encouraged.
- Adds in variety with Heist-style missions and even has enemy robots!
- Fires can break out so you need to put them out.
- Forty-odd story missions.
- Over 15 types of tools.
- Find valuables with story missions for bonus rewards.
- Online leaderboards.
- Remote play together support.
Teardown Review Cons:
- The menu navigation with the controller is clumsy with the right stick controlling a mouse pointer.
- The walls fall down way too quickly with the vehicles.
- The tutorial hints are not that specific or common.
- Felt like I didn’t know what to do all the time.
- The first job in the campaign should have been a lot more hand-holding as it lays out everything you can and needs to do.
- The music isn’t that great.
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Teardown:
Developer: Tuxedolabs
Publisher: Tuxedolabs
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Summary
Teardown is a surprise hit for me, I didn’t really know what I was getting into as it passed me by thanks to the ever-busy schedule. Teardown is a game that always boils down to smashing shit up to try and solve your problems which is a good way to approach life! The voxel-style graphics lend themselves well to the fully destructible environment, the garage of vehicles and tools dictate what and how you go about your onslaught. I love just booting it up and getting on with it with not a lot of fuss. You buy this game to either smash crap up or because you love out-of-the-box thinking of solutions.