Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans Preview

GamingExcellence has dished up a quick preview of Targem and Buka Entertainment’s Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans expansion pack.

One of the most lacking features in the original (and also one of the biggest selling points in the expansion) is the introduction of multiplayer combat. For a game focused on massive vehicular combat, the exclusion of multiplayer in the originally caught me as a surprise, as it would be a real selling point and replay factor in such a release. The expansion will offer multiplayer for up to sixteen players, using the GameSpy matchmaking software. The game options are similar to what you’d find in Quake style multiplayer, choose a track, number of combatants, amount of armor, light or heavy weapons, winning conditions (time limit, kill limit, etc). Finally, the game will offer up a handful of multiplayer modes, the standard deathmatch and team deathmatch, Rise of the Clans (eight vs. eight), and Defend the Fortress, where one team begins inside and the other outside, and the winner whoever has possession of the fortress at the end of the game.