Hell-demon
09-09-08, 00:15
I got this game recently and I have to say it is a huge dissapointment.
The game starts off promising but just decends into mediocrity and frustration. Which is unfortunate as there is a lot of promise in this game. There is fun to be had making your own creature and vehicles but that's all.
I made a race of blue, hunchbacked, shark people. I decided to create a race of murderous bastards who killed and ate their way to the top. This was achieved easily by equiping the appropriate limbs etc. However if you just want a creature based on looks alone prepare to be in trouble. The creature stage plays out like a a bad team based rpg. You kill "bosses" and collect limbs, but if you want your creature/s to have a better edge you must get rid off aesthetics and instead improve your stats or else you and your pals will get crushed.
The controls get worse with each stage and the A.I gets bad too. The tribal stage had me clicking furiously for tribe members to get stuck into battle but instead they watched the other tribe members fighting while standing behind them.
Eventually you have the civilisation stage which entails you making vehicles and buildings. This is when the creation tools get sloppy. You can pretty much have a grey slab as an entertainment facility and your race will love it. You can mash any old bollocks together and you've made a vehicle. There's no real point in making them as the civilisation stage is really short.
After this stage you have the most talked about stage: Outer Space. The controls also take a nose dive and you'll be getting around by use of the mouse wheel. I must admit I was taken back by the scope of it. You have a huge spiralling universe teaming with life. But you are brought back down to Earth when you see the bad gameplay choices.
I had set myself out to be a cruel race exterminateing everything and my hardwork was soon undone. For soem reasons other civilisations can have fleets while you can't. This makes things difficult when raiding a planet and being raided yourself. No sooner do you destroy one fleet another one comes up. You have to get by making allegiances with other races and doing fed ex missions. I went against my choices of being a bad ass because to get another ship to join you must be allied to a race and they will give you one of their ships, which will be destroyed the next time you land somewhere else. It's just not easy defending your planet with one ship or attacking another planet with one ship alone.
So I get penalised for choosing an aggressive race. The game is about choice and I feel like the game is punishing me. I have to do things I don't want to do to progress in the game. I have to trade and terraform to get anywhere I cant be free to do what I want because I wasn't given any tools or because I'm greatly outnumbered.
You progress by earning badges, which unlock more abilities, which you must buy from other races, which cost money, but you have to do more missions to get money. There is a terraforming element but you have to buy the tools to paint and change everything.
It seems like every stage is a different game to entertain different players but each one is shallow. The cell stage is like Flow, the creature stage is like a brightly coloured Diablo with stats and bad pathfinding team mates, tribal stage is a poor mans strategy game, civilisation is trivial and space is just monotonous.
Try it if you want. Post your opinions and comments.
The game starts off promising but just decends into mediocrity and frustration. Which is unfortunate as there is a lot of promise in this game. There is fun to be had making your own creature and vehicles but that's all.
I made a race of blue, hunchbacked, shark people. I decided to create a race of murderous bastards who killed and ate their way to the top. This was achieved easily by equiping the appropriate limbs etc. However if you just want a creature based on looks alone prepare to be in trouble. The creature stage plays out like a a bad team based rpg. You kill "bosses" and collect limbs, but if you want your creature/s to have a better edge you must get rid off aesthetics and instead improve your stats or else you and your pals will get crushed.
The controls get worse with each stage and the A.I gets bad too. The tribal stage had me clicking furiously for tribe members to get stuck into battle but instead they watched the other tribe members fighting while standing behind them.
Eventually you have the civilisation stage which entails you making vehicles and buildings. This is when the creation tools get sloppy. You can pretty much have a grey slab as an entertainment facility and your race will love it. You can mash any old bollocks together and you've made a vehicle. There's no real point in making them as the civilisation stage is really short.
After this stage you have the most talked about stage: Outer Space. The controls also take a nose dive and you'll be getting around by use of the mouse wheel. I must admit I was taken back by the scope of it. You have a huge spiralling universe teaming with life. But you are brought back down to Earth when you see the bad gameplay choices.
I had set myself out to be a cruel race exterminateing everything and my hardwork was soon undone. For soem reasons other civilisations can have fleets while you can't. This makes things difficult when raiding a planet and being raided yourself. No sooner do you destroy one fleet another one comes up. You have to get by making allegiances with other races and doing fed ex missions. I went against my choices of being a bad ass because to get another ship to join you must be allied to a race and they will give you one of their ships, which will be destroyed the next time you land somewhere else. It's just not easy defending your planet with one ship or attacking another planet with one ship alone.
So I get penalised for choosing an aggressive race. The game is about choice and I feel like the game is punishing me. I have to do things I don't want to do to progress in the game. I have to trade and terraform to get anywhere I cant be free to do what I want because I wasn't given any tools or because I'm greatly outnumbered.
You progress by earning badges, which unlock more abilities, which you must buy from other races, which cost money, but you have to do more missions to get money. There is a terraforming element but you have to buy the tools to paint and change everything.
It seems like every stage is a different game to entertain different players but each one is shallow. The cell stage is like Flow, the creature stage is like a brightly coloured Diablo with stats and bad pathfinding team mates, tribal stage is a poor mans strategy game, civilisation is trivial and space is just monotonous.
Try it if you want. Post your opinions and comments.