The Tachyon Project is another twin-stick shooter that wants to bring something new to the table with a story mode. That’s right, this isn’t your regular twin-stick shooter; Tachyon Project brings you to the world of professional hackers. You’re gathering important information by shooting down the anti-viruses in your environment. Sound fun, but is it actually enjoyable? Time to find out.
Time for a little story
The moment you start Tachyon Project, you can jump into the story mode, challenge mode or tutorial. Everything you’ll see is connected with a story. It’s rather clear that the developers wanted to innovate the genre by adding a story but that really didn’t work out that well. The story isn’t voiced but only features some still images and big piles of text. The characters look like they are inspired by ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ movie and it never really feels creative.
The goal of the game is to hack certain serves of important people; these servers are protected with a wide variety of anti-virus technology. These defenders serve as your targets you need to take down. It’s not a bad idea to give some kind of twist to why you are here but the story isn’t impressive at all. Let’s jump right over to the gameplay.
Classic twin-stick gameplay
That brings us to the actual gameplay of Tachyon project. You play on a rather small map that looks almost identical on every level. The game is divided into different levels, which are divided into several waves. If you manage to survive each wave, you’ll complete the level and unlock the other one. Died during one of the ways? You’ll need to restart the level from the start. It’s a system that gives the players an extra challenge; it’s something we appreciate for sure.
The different waves aren’t that original on the other hand. Each wave has its own goal but don’t expect to do some innovating things here. You’ll have to take down a set amount of a specific enemy or manage to survive for 60 seconds for example. The tasks are simple and you’ll immediately now what to do. It’s fun at first but after a while, we had seen it and weren’t surprised with the new objectives.
Lots of enemies
Something Tachyon Project does succeed in is creating a wide variety of enemies. As said before, the enemies are designed to bring down hackers and they come in different sizes and forms. You’ll have mines, hunters and even huge voids that will suck you into the abyss. The game is at its best when all those types of enemies are thrown into one level, too bad this doesn’t happen that much.
To take down these enemies, you’ll have your standard weapon and better upgradable weapons the more you advance. In order to unlock these better weapons, you’ll need to survive several waves and levels. This is basically the goal of the game. Forget the story that’s been told why you’re playing. The main objective really is to get as far as possible and become the leader of the online board.
| The good: | The bad: |
| + Great visuals and soundtrack | – Story isn’t original |
| + Great controls | – Same objectives over and over |
| + Challenging | – Lacks creativity |
Tachyon Project isn’t the best twin-stick shooter on the market. It tries to innovate with a story but it’s so obvious it could have done perfectly without it. What remains is a fun twin-stick shooter that will certainly give you some hours of fun. The only downside about it all is that the levels all look the same and the objectives lack creativity. That being said, it’s not a bad game.
3 out of 5:
