Placing and removing parts is pretty simple and snap into place on the grid. The early levels are a good way to get your feet wet-and preferably not the vehicles'-in bridge building and how bridge physics work. After all, a bridge without anything supporting it will just collapse immediately. It’s not as simple as just building a road and that’s it you do have to take physics into account. You have to further account for the passage of ships and the like without completely destroying them. There are over 60 levels to complete and each has basically the same goal: get any vehicles from point A to point B safely by building a bridge or bridges, depending on the level, occasionally making sure any checkpoints are hit and that your bridge can both support the weight of the vehicles that cross them. Newer players will want to hit up the Worlds option first as it’s pretty much the campaign of the game, plus it includes a couple of tutorials for basic bridge construction as well as how hydraulics work. Poly Bridge 2 gives you a few ways to play out of the gate: Worlds, Workshop, and Sandbox. That said, I got the opportunity to check out Poly Bridge 2 on Steam to see how well I can design and develop bridges. I’ve always seen myself as more of a developer when it comes to my programming expertise I’m better at developing something as opposed to visually designing a program. Architecture is similar to an extent where you have to design what you’re building and then a team with the proper skills will develop what is being built. With programming, for example, there’s the process of designing the application, such as a video game, and then you have a team actually developing the application by writing the code. At a pretty reasonable price I’d say this is a great option if you want a bit of puzzle solving fun.When it comes to creating something, you can usually split the project into two major processes: designing and developing. But it does pose the same danger that most games of that ilk do which is that there is a chance you will get caught up and if you had a time frame to play in before doing something else… I’d suggest setting an alarm so you don’t miss your other obligations.Ī fun game that will test your brain and no doubt frustrate you at times, but a lot of value in the editor directly and indirectly. It’s a game that works well as a quick jump in, play a little and jump out again. But there’s also a certain amount of enjoyment to seeing how your bridges can fail and how the vehicles react to your constructions.īut if all the levels provided by the developers aren’t enough… you can make your own, or see what wild creations other players around the world have come up with. You can certainly take a “smack it down and see” approach (I’m guilty of that on the first few levels)… but as things get more complex that approach won’t do much for your chance of success. That’s kind of the core of the game in terms of reward… it’s looking at the problem, trying one solution then another until you finally get the result you want (and given the results screen tends to show how well others have done on the same challenge you can quickly find yourself redesigning a bridge to be even more optimised). I actually put the game to the side for some time and then came back (no doubt after a patch or two) and when I tried that level again it worked… I presume because the hydraulic mechanic was buggy, but to then see the bridge work was quite a thrill. No matter what I did nothing seemed to get the bridge to work as I thought it should (the tutorials can be a little light on information). When I first began playing Poly Bridge 2 I had a lot of fun… until I got up to the hydraulic level. The basic idea is you are tasked with constructing a bridge and whilst that begins simply enough of creating a stable platform from one point to another, it quickly becomes more complicated with tight budgets, hydraulics, shipping lanes and other added challenges to incorporate. It’s arguably mostly a puzzle game but it’s also, to some extent, a chance to switch your brain off and just have a bit of silly fun. Poly Bridge 2 is one of those games that fills a hole in gaming.
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