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SPACE SIEGE Posted by bigman andy69 on Sep 16, 2008 12:12 (Sep 16, 2008 12:12) |
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Space Siege is the latest game from developer Gas Powered Games, who are most likely to be known for developing Dungeon Siege2, and more recently Supreme Commander, having never played either of these games so I was looking forward to playing this latest Action RPG. And so to the story, well after the “Kerak” attack Earth, 5 colony ships evacuate the last remaining humans, but unfortunately only 1 ship manages to escape the alien onslaught, and so our story is set upon the “Armstrong” , the only surviving colony ship. You play the part of an Engineer aboard the “Armstrong” called Seth Walker, the ships cargo contains the last remaining humans all 20,000 of them, but the Kerak have infiltrated the ship, and your job is to protect mankind, but at what cost.....
The graphics are very good, although at times because you are aboard a huge ship 90% of the views are all the same, a ships hull, a cabin, a flight bridge etc, after a while the graphics kind of merge into one and the wow factor that originally hits you gets lost.
The gameplay is very easy to pick up and this will appeal to RPG beginners or RPG pros alike, but the downside is that the character and weapon upgrades are very basic, there are only 2 classes that you can develop and you max them out rather quickly, and the weapons can be upgraded at various workbenches spread throughout the ship, you also have a little robot companion HR-V who you can get to help you out at various points, but eventually you get over the novelty of using him or her, and just get on with killing the alien horde. There are various side quests though to take your mind off the aliens, such as collecting crucial repair parts, cybernetic enhancements, locating certain characters and rescuing them, deactivating one machine or another, etc. The actual battles though do get tedious as it’s nearly always the same thing, there are various traps that you can use, just in case you get bored of shooting, and if you do go down the genetic modifying route then you can use some rather interesting moves, but I won’t give to much away about that.
So although this game has a lot of negatives there is enough there for the beginner to cut his teeth on in the RPG world before moving onto greater games, but for a more experienced player there is nothing new here to see.
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