Listen. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m the one who has horrible tastes in things and what I don’t like most other people do. People do have unusual tastes in things, things that are unusual. For example, my friend and fellow reviewer Erratic still has a HUGE collection of something called ‘cassette tape’ full of something called ’80′s music’.
I bought this game on a whim, because I felt like playing an RPG, something new, and I’m a sucker for anything science fiction. I installed it, watched the intro – space ships whizzing around, weird alien things, lasers, the whole sci fi bit. I sipped my coffee then rubbed my hands together in anticipation – and then gameplay started.
The more I played the more disappointed I got. This game tried to marry FPS plus RPG plus some sort of strategy game, and rather poorly I might add.
First off, the controls. Your W, A, S, D keys controlled the camera. Your mouse controls … something. Firing and collecting nearby ‘parts’ to build things. Your skills tree is pretty useless, your special abilities confusing to find and administer. The story line is lackluster and the game itself is incredibly repetitive.
Bascially, if you want your games to play out like your day job get this game. I don’t mean any sort of day job, I’m talking more along the lines of some sort of officious government worker that does the same meaningless thing all day long ever day until you retire with a pension that allows you to live on cat food for the rest of your natural life. Yea, it’s that boring.
Like I said, I might just be weird and wrong. But in 2008 Space Seige cost 50 dollars to buy, and now you get get it for $7.99 – what does that tell you?
Yea, it sucks.
