Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Well, it won't beat C&C or LOTR-BfME it terms of true RTS master status, but it's a good game all the same. It has a good unique feature where pressing the Spacebar during a 'mission' zooms you into a random camera view to see what's going on, close up.
There's a big polarity in the way the game plays in terms of difficulty though, giving you the impression that they didn't play test it thoroughly enough. The space battles are ridiculously easy - even going in outnumbered and totally out-gunned usually means that you can still win, quite easily. Land battles are much harder though - even with the ability of calling in airstrikes as the armour units such as the AT-ST are so puny.
It's still a good game though. If Command & Conquer is your benchmark of the perfect RTS game, then it certainly won't surpass it. If however, you think the likes of Warcraft 3 and WH40K : Winter Assault define what makes a great RTS, then this will probably better both of them.
8.5 out of 10 from me...
D.
There's a big polarity in the way the game plays in terms of difficulty though, giving you the impression that they didn't play test it thoroughly enough. The space battles are ridiculously easy - even going in outnumbered and totally out-gunned usually means that you can still win, quite easily. Land battles are much harder though - even with the ability of calling in airstrikes as the armour units such as the AT-ST are so puny.
It's still a good game though. If Command & Conquer is your benchmark of the perfect RTS game, then it certainly won't surpass it. If however, you think the likes of Warcraft 3 and WH40K : Winter Assault define what makes a great RTS, then this will probably better both of them.
8.5 out of 10 from me...
D.
