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Imagine being such a smooth brain that this game has a profound impact on your life. One reviewer said this caused him to dissacoiate for 2 years. That guy needs to pack his bags and head to hades because he aint gonna be able to hack it in this world. This review is to help balance out those who've never seen an episode of star trek or read a book and feel the need to gush at this very mediocre game. The story is fine. Its pretty good. But its old. I remember an episode of the 90s outter limits tv series that covered it better. And it had dinosaurs.

The writing and dialogue is actually pretty bad. I'm not sure if this is a foreign translation, but it feels like it. The dialogue is stilted at times and some words are not pronounced right. It just doesn't flow well.

But whatever, its still a fine story, and I love a good deep sci fi story and this certainly is one, so I'll give that a pass. But this is a game, and the gameplay SUUUuuuuucks. It sucks so bad. Its so boring. The only actual game play is avoiding monsters which is mildly frustrating, not exciting, and just grinds everything to a halt. You can't really die. There are no real consequences.

I dunno, I feel like this game appeals to babies. Are you a baby? Then you'll love it. Enjoy your baby game for babies.

Gud game

Captivating

I really enjoyed this game. It's a shame its not more successful than it is. The developers have been doing great work for the adventure game genre for decades.

The puzzles were intuitive. Nothing insanely frustrating or with crazy logical leaps. Except, there was one moment where I used a spyglass and was told I couldn't find what I was seeking with it, then, after doing something else, wandered around for an hour until using it to find the EXACT SAME THING i was just told I couldn't use it for... That was outrageous, but on par with adventure games of old I suppose.

The combat didn't have much depth, but whatever. Neither did Quest for glory. I did enjoy the stat system in that game a lot better. The one in this one is quite frankly, stupid.

The story is tight, the characters enjoyable. Doesn't quite have that QFG charm or sense of grandeur. But it gets close.

I hope they do well enough to make a second one. I hope I'm still alive when it comes out, if it does.

Every year there is some story rich game that gets insane reviews and every GD time I'm irritated by the gap between my expectations and experience playing it.

Does this game have a good story? Probably. I don't know because I didn't finish it. There are ways I enjoy experiencing a good story, and then there is this. A book, a movie, even a good game that can stand on its own two legs mechanically. But this is just a story where the pieces are scattered and there are artifical barriers in your way to gathering the next piece. Do I enjoy fighting aweful controls to get to where I want to go just to experience the next chapter, only to be sucked into the sun and have to restart? Nah. I'm good.

This game is like a book with all the pages torn out. You want to read the next page? Its at the post office. Get in your car and head there. Oh... Its closed. Wait for it to open. I.E. wait for the this in game event. Having fun yet?

Its the combination of the structure, poor controls, and completely restricted by time, often wasting large amounts of the players time, that makes me have to provide a voice of reason in a sea of glowing reviews. Don't buy it. Watch a youtube video on the story as I'm about to do, and delete this annoyance.

Oh my god. I forgot this game existed. Holy S***. The only reason I'm writing this is because I'm downlowding a bunch of ♥♥♥♥ and had to clear out my hard drive and went through my steam games and found this gem. Which its not, obviously. Compare and contrast how forgettable this is to the masterpiece that was master of orion 2...

But who cares? Why am I writing this game. It failed and no one will buy it at this point. But if you're the one 40 year old guy who has been too busy the last decade to realize this came out, and you googled "games like master of orion" after a few drinks on a thursday night, and somehow managed to stumble upon this piece of ♥♥♥♥... Don't. Download the OG.

The Xcom remake was pretty good... All I got for ya.

This is a very solid game. The new tomb raider series has established itself as a quality product in my eyes, reliably delivery 2 excellent games thus far. They aren't going to resonate through history, but they are definitly worth picking up during a sale. The story, voice acting, performance and gameplay are all top notch.

Nit picks: I personally don't see a lot of replayability here. And a lot of the content is "filler." It falls into the trap of giving the player pointless tasks under the guise of acomplishing something. When in reality, you're just running around looking for flags to cut down. Why did I have to wait until I was more than half way through the game to find a KNIFE to cut down those flags? I have guns, explosives, and can craft 5 arrows in 3 seconds... I seriously couldn't figure out a way to cut a rope? I guess a lot of people get something out of these little excersises. It rewards those simple brains... I find them silly. But they can be completely ignored.

The controls are a little stiff. Especially using a mouse and keyboard. Which I do, because I can't aim for ♥♥♥♥ without a mouse. But this doesn't hold back the action enough to qualify as a gripe. Its still incredibly fufilling and fun killing bad guys.

8/10. Buy it (on sale).

Steepish learning curve. But its not THAT bad. Somewhere between the original xcom and dwarf fortress.

Its good. Wha'daya want?

This game is nothing short of embarrassing. 1cpublishing should be ashamed of itself, releasing this mess.

Remember back in the day, before everything was digital, during the time of DVDs and video rental stores? There would be these shady companies that would release direct to video sequals, or straight up rip offs with the intent to decieve. The terminator would have "the exterminator," and transformers would have "transmorphers." Suffice to say, they were all terrible, and their only goal was to trick you into spending your money before you realized you'd been sold a pile of ♥♥♥♥. Well thats what this game is!

You realize this as soon as the game starts, from the first line of dialogue, which could have been written by a 3rd grader. It usually goes something like this:

Main character: "hello dwarf! I am nice deamon! Let me in your lands,"
Gatekeeper: "Ok, I am a dwarf, and I am weary of deamons, but you seem nice"
Main character: "Okay, thank you dwarf, i will come in now. Oh, remember how in the past your race was nuetral and thats why you are not scared of deamons?"
Gatekeeper: "Yes, that makes sense. Opening gate now. Come inside"

I mean, It'd be comical if it wern't for the fact that this con men swindled me out of my money.

The maps are aweful. You know those mods that no one ever downloads? Those maps that an 11 year old spent hours making but just doesn't have the eye to make work. Thats every map in this game. They all feel thrown together, without purpose, completely lacking anything CLOSE to cohession or theme. The first undergroud area has pipes, and mushrooms, and spiders nests everywhere. Its an eyesore! Its like the guy was looking at the objects availible to him and picked a bunch at random and just cluttered the screen with them.

Except its NOT cluttered. Its EMPTY. There is nothing on the map!!! The old Kings bountys games were rich, and densly packed. These are COMPLETELY EMPTY. I kept hoping this would change and the actual game would start. But nope, its just the empty world that persists throughout.

This game is the WORST example of money grubing, lack of pride, and out and out disrespect for fans. If you buy this game after reading this, you might be the type of person that invites the guy who just broke into your house to rob you, to bang your wife. If you have even the most miniscule of self respect, do NOT give these crooks your money. Don't let them get away with this. Its criminal.

Its pretty good. But it took way to long to get to this state.