| Review : |
It's an alright game, but there's too much combat, and not enough of a tactical aspect. Also, if you do 1-to-1 ship combat--that's what I like to play--the game always picks the battleship (i.e. Galaxy, Warbird), even if you put available command points to its lowest. In addition to that, there's barely a tactical aspect to the game. Pretty much, it's your stats versus your opponents; so if you're in a Steamrunner class vessel and you go up against a Warbird you can't use a strategy to win. On Bridge Commander for example I'd take out the engines then go into a blind spot and let loose all my weapons, but I digress. Or you might try to go in an asteroid field to try to have a battleship class collide with every other asteroid, but the ship conviently dodges its way past all of them so they don't collide. Oh, and speaking of asteroids, they put too many in, and nebulas too. It may just be me, but I don't think every system has a nebula in it. And, don't get me started with the controls. Now to the good points, I like the ship graphics and the damage graphics are very good, and even the dreaded nebulas look real. Plus, I think it's cool that you could get all of the actors that portrayed the captains to do a voiceover. That's pretty much all of the nice things! All, in all, it's good for the graphics and sound. |
