Terra Trilogy PS4

Terra Trilogy is a compilation of three games:  Terra Lander DX , Terra Lander II: Rock Slide Rescue and Terra Bomber .   This is a series of old-school, arcade-inspired shoot ’em ups that share a minimalist design, a penchant for classical music and an uncompromising level of difficulty and all three games come from the Leeds-based developer DM Media (otherwise known as Daniel Gallagher). While two of the games,  Terra Lander and  Terra Lander II , are inertia-heavy takes on the 1979 classic coin-op Lunar Lander , the remaining one, Terra Bomber , is inspired by 1981’s Scramble .  They’ve all been around in one form or another, starting out on iOS and Android and we’ve actually reviewed Terra Bomber already (another Metacritic exclusive, but we’ll be giving it another look with fresh eyes (even if it was just six months ago). Each title here is a separate game with their own trophy lists and icon on your home screen.  There is no overarching menu or program to launch, you redeem and activate each game separately (at least when using review codes). Terra Lander DX Terra Lander DX is a simplistic physics based shooter where you have to navigate through tricky tunnels lined with guns and fuel dumps and land on a target pad.  It’s exactly the sort of thing you’ll be familiar with if you’ve played  Lunar Lander, Thrust  or a countless other variations on this theme. We’ve never really been fans of those physics-heavy shoot ’em ups and that’s because we don’t like wrestling with thrusting and rotation with fussy controls and the spectre of imminent death hanging over us but  Terra Lander ‘s simple twin-stick set up really improves the experience.  Here there is no rotation, you just thrust around using the left stick and the right stick is used to shoot in whatever direction you point (no fire buttons, another win).  So getting around in this game is very intuitive.