Teardown Ultimate Edition Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published November 21, 2023 · Updated November 16, 2023

For our Teardown Ultimate Edition 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 Ultimate Edition Review Pros:

Decent voxel graphics.
3.46GB Download size.
Platinum trophy.
Cross-buy – You get the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Graphics settings – gamma correction, field of view slider, depth of field, barrel distortion, motion blur, mode (performance/fidelity), and 120 HZ.
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.
Mod browser menu.
Fast loading times.
On-screen button prompts.
Includes both DLCs – Art Vandals, and Time Campers.
Both DLCs have campaign and sandbox modes.
You can quit out of DLC and go back to the main menu.
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 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.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders for in-game and ADS, deadzone sliders, rebind buttons, and trigger effect on/off.
The performance is a huge step up.

Teardown Ultimate Edition Review Cons:

No way to turn off headbobbing.
The walls fall down way too quickly with the vehicles.
Can cause some nausea feeling as the camera is very wishy-washy and loose.
Mod browsing is basic with no filters and only a handful of choices at the moment.
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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