![]() It’s 10tons doing what they do better than most teams in the business and whilst their twiddling with the formula doesn’t always land (Undead Horde), when it does it’s magnificent. I’ve been returning to it every couple of months for a fair while now for when the more sedate and methodical Neon Chrome and Jydge just won’t do. I wouldn’t recommend going straight to one of the higher levels without grinding some power ups and perks first though, when the bulk of enemies work on the Gauntlet ghosts principle of “loads of the buggers running at you at once”, it’s wise to be prepared. ![]() They’re less about whether you prefer the game easy or difficult and more about finding the most enjoyable pairing for whatever your current Tesla is kitted out with and amount of things you fancy shooting. There’s also a couple of difficulty levels to progress through. Travel from start to finish on the map, there’s a few different tasks to be completed depending on what location choose but eventually, it all comes down to exploding cosmic nasties using glowing neon laser beams in some fashion. In Tesla vs Lovecraft at some levels, you need to solve the most difficult puzzles, fight with huge bosses and strong opponents, and most interestingly. ![]() ![]() There’s a bit of story and a vaguely roguelike structure glueing everything together, not much in the way of surprises in that regard. Once you’re a few stages further and you start racking up upgrades, new inventions and perks, it’s just flat out silly. Tesla can ‘teleport’ in Dishonored-Blink fashion beginning in one of the very early stages so a good part of the game is spent shooting stuff then *pop* blinking to safety (or as is more likely, into an even bigger throng of suit wearing frog things). You’re already handed some firepower fairly quickly but there’s movement upgrades for good measure too. I love it! It’s just so unecessary and so over the top, I can’t help but grin at it. There’s a silly amount of customisation in there, well above and beyond the call of duty and because in Tesla Vs Lovecraft, power ups all stack, it won’t be long before the screen is a blur of glowing lasers and the innards of whatever old gods popped by to cause trouble. In-between rounds, it’s time to start levelling up and kitting out Tesla with even more firepower, even more armour and stuff and things that glow and go bang. Most games would be content with just providing a mech and being all “alright, that’s plenty” but that’s not the 10tons way. Once or twice a round you’ll find yourself having collected all the parts of a mech, summon it up and it’s time to tear through absolutely everything in sight. In Tesla Vs Lovecraft’s case, this comes courtesy of Tesla’s mech. If you’re new to the 10tons formula, it’s twin stick blasting mixed with ridiculous upgrades – never *quite* game breaking upgrades but certainly for a few moments each round, there’s invariably some ridiculous level of things blowing up or going splat happening. Save the world with a plethora of inventions and gadgets, including (but not limited to) X-Ray Blade and Death Ray Gun.Whilst I don’t entirely understand the internet fixation with either Tesla or Lovecraft, or why they seem to go together like Cannon and Ball, Rod and Emu or Andy Crane and Edd The Duck, at least it’s led us to perhaps my favourite 10tons game yet. Monsters so horrible they’ll make you eat up your own sanity! If nightmares had nightmares, this is what they’d look like. (Includes a warning label about Theseus-paradox, whatever that is) In this top-down action game, you will unleash the full might of science on all that dare threaten your progress. As Nikola Tesla, you can use all your futuristic technology to hunt down these fiends and take back what's yours before things really get out of hand. Quantum Teleportation, packed neatly into one handy portable backpack. Nikola Tesla, the famous scientist, has his inventions stolen by creatures straight from the pages of an H.P. Mow down your opponents with twin-mounted Tesla-Miniguns, and trample over monsters like they were ants. Tesla-Mech, an immensely powerful machine of war at your disposal. With the help of his occult book, and a vast army of monsters, he has stolen your most precious inventions! Lovecraft, who claims that your actions have put the world in peril. At the eve of your greatest invention, your laboratory is burned down by the horror author H.P. You are Nikola Tesla, world-famous inventor and genius extraordinaire. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror! Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome.
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