This is truly a forgotten classic. Yet it had no commercial success. For a more in depth review check out my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acddu6tzsgc Where the game still shines even nowadays is the gameplay. Here we'll also find the cause why it never became a commercial success. Your PBA - that's how the exo armor you wear in Terra Nova is called - can be micro-controlled to death. You can rotate the torso, look up, down, left and right, strafe and use jump jets. There's a portable drone for reconaissance purpopses you can control manually or via navigation markers. The three multi function displays can be controlled seperately. For example there's a 360 degree view option for close quarter combat. Or you can stream visor cameras of your squad mates which comes in handy when they are behind a hill or structure. Combat is fast, fluid and responsive. And challenging. You need to use cover wisely and display some precise shooting otherwise you're going down quite fast. Luckily your sqadmates aren't completely useless like in many modern games where they fire indiscriminately magically hitting opponents but doing no damage to them. Here they move and shoot more or less intelligent. Position them in the right spot and they will easily bag half of the mission's kills. I loved Terra Nova and it still plays well today. If you can get over the now horribly pixelated 3D environment you'll find a jewel of a game. I still felt immersed into the world while recording the footage for this video. It's one of the best simulations of exo-armor ever done in opinion.
