The Local Group has been divided into two governments, the Federated Worlds (FW) and the United Democratic Planets (UDP). Although trade and travel continue between the two governments, the situation is deteriorating rapidly.
Almost 8 years ago, you "retired" from the Federated Worlds Spe...
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The Local Group has been divided into two governments, the Federated Worlds (FW) and the United Democratic Planets (UDP). Although trade and travel continue between the two governments, the situation is deteriorating rapidly.
Almost 8 years ago, you "retired" from the Federated Worlds Special Forces (FWSF), an organization whose function is to gather intelligence data and perform covert operations within the United Democratic Planets. Now you carry the personna of a free trader from Vromus Prime. Your cover is quite airtight. Occasionally, the FWSF provides you with money and special equipment, but only to send you out on a mission. Not all of your crew is even aware that you are anything else but a trader.
So during your travels and missions, you're going to have to earn a living.
Equip your ship and your crew and set out to the stars
Trade with alien species and battle pirates
Manage your business and complete your mission.
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Encountered this game as a kid, but it was too complicated and ran too slowly for my poor little Apple IIc. I've always wanted to find it and play it as an adult. So... kudos to Throwback for resurrecting it! Their port runs with no problems.
The game itself is like a grognard hybrid of an old-school space game (Sundog, Starflight, etc., except turn-based) and an Infocom text-based adventure. There really isn't anything else like it, now or even back in its own time.
Unfortunately, the manual isn't included. The game is so complicated that the manual is an essential reference. It's easy to find in PDF form with some googling, so I'm only knocking off one star for the lack of manual.
Also, they really should have resurrected the Classic Mac version. The DOS version's text isn't nearly as clear, and there's A LOT of text.
I played this back in the 1980s when it first came out on the Atari ST and enjoyed it tremendously. It was a massively ambitious game for the time, with a scale far beyond most of its contempories.
I won't say too much about the game's ending but suffice it to say that it left a lasting impression - I still think about it, from time to time, more than thirty years on!
I played this game back in the 80's but was too young to really understand how to interact with a game this complex. I tried everything, but wasn't able to succeed. This game was incredibly ambitious and having just finished it, am amazed at what Omnitrend was able to accomplish with this release. The game is deep and extremely well-balanced, with a game economy that requires careful planning to survive and, eventually, thrive. This is a grind, but a rewarding one.
The game plays out over multiple years of in-game time, during which you have to grind out a living as a free-trader to support your undercover assignment. You have a lot of flexibility to pursue profit through trading, mining or piracy and each one is challenging, but achievable. The story rolls out slowly with missions and updates being delivered by your in-game communication system. These story beats were well paced and fun additions to the seemingly mundane routines of working for a living.
Although I'm giving 5 stars, there are some obvious knocks on the game. The interface is somewhat clunky, with everything delivered via dropdown menus and context-sensitive hotkeys. Memorizing hotkeys is very helpful, but there can still be a lot of small steps to accomplish anything. Portions of the game play out in an Infocom-style text parser. These sections can be either needlessly repetitive (such as when you are accessing starports to do routine commercial transactions) or somewhat unintuitive and frustrating (when pursuing side quests and special missions). Why do you tell me that there is an indentation the size of my hand and when I type "Insert hand into indentation", you don't know what a hand is? (The answer was "touch indentation".)
As mentioned in another review, the manual is absolutely essential to playing this game. Thankfully, it is extremely thorough and well-written.
Overall, I loved revisiting this game from my youth and am thankful to have been able to play it again.
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