90
Te a r d ow n is an endlessly
delightful destruction
sandbox that modders
and I can’t seem to get
enough of.VERDICTaccount for structural stability or
tension, meaning entire buildings will
often be held up by one voxel.
Various modders have attempted
different ways to remedy that,
breaking objects in flight or chaining
destruction to create more believable
building collapses.
The only real shame is in
Teardown’s complete lack of
multiplayer. While I can appreciate
the programming nightmare that
must come with trying to sync
thousands of exploding voxels across
multiple clients, it’s all too easy to
imagine the kinds of new, impromptu
games that could spawn from
Teardown’s foundations.
Because those foundations really
are incredible. Teardown isn’t just a
tech demo – it’s a window into a
world where game worlds only
became more dynamic, more
physical, more breakable. Teardown is
a game that’s excited about its own
technology, and wants to show you
all the ways it can break stuff.
It’s a brilliant series of puzzles, a
never-ending series of new worlds to
break and new tools to break them
with. But most of all, Teardown really
is just a smashing great time.TOP: The mall’s having
a fire sale.
ABOVE: (^) Hard to port!
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
No demolitions expert should leave home without these
SLEDGEHAMMER
No ammo. No fuss.
Just a slab of rock on
the end of a stick. If
you need something
smashed, this’ll
smash it no problem
(as long as it’s not
brick or concrete).
SHOTGUN
Think of it as a
sledgehammer, but
with range. Not the
most precise tool,
but if you need to
smash a window in a
hurry there’s no
better one.
ROCKET
LAUNCHER
The rocket launcher
is for those special
occasions where you
need to blow
something up from
half a mile away.
Kaboom!
BXH-X42
Fine, this one’s a
mod. But sometimes
you just truly need
something erased
from existence – and
this handy, portable
black hole launcher
will do exactly that.
Gmod-style physguns
let you lift entire
buildings.