Darkstar One

Have you ever made scrumbled eggs, put the fresh eggs into a glass / bowl before putting it in the frying pan, accidentally dropped a piece of small eggshell into the glass / bowl and tried to fish it with a spoon / your fingers? Yep, this game's aiming mechanics are as awesome as this adventure and you will constantly do this while "fighting" in this game. - This whole game is like Descent. Only without all the fun, without any good mechanics, without great guns, without action and (re)playability after the first 30 minutes or so. Learning curve is so steep it could be described as a vertical take-off. Nothing is explained, like trading or all the other stuff that's going on. Upgrading is a joke. Had a simple pew-pew-laser to start with. Not if that wouldn't be horribly boring enough yet, the upgraded MK2 laser looks exactly the same, fires exactly the same, everything same. This game is so lame and boring it's an major insult. It's like the creators didn't even want to make a de(s)cent game. Why can't we just have game like Descent, Forsaken, Aquanox, that isn't major garbage? WHY? Is it *that* hard, godammnit? - And all the "fighting" is like hunting a fly in a supersized hall with a broomstick and trying to poke it gently to death. BORING. AS. HELL. Don't buy this game.

This could have been a good game, however, the scaling difficulty as you upgrade your ships causes sudden and abrubpt difficulty spikes, muptile grind style gate ways block your advance, The story is very weak, the variety of enemies is slim, your tactical HUD places all the important tactical information at the corners of your display instead of towards the center so you can see it without having to look away from your target, and this is just the start. Honestly their are better space sims and you should save your monet for those.

kwl

Still kinda fun after so many years

It's a nice old game unfortunately it does not work really well under windows requires a couple of quirks that potentially worsen the overall system security by a lot, it would be nice if it gets into the Good old Games category so GOG can handle this issue.