Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

The entire time you hope you can actually DO something in the game. You find the game won't let you. Why? Simple, everyone has weapons in the game that do nothing at all. There aren't any tactics at all either. You basically are told by the game where to go. You go there and pretend to choose your stockpile of weapons. Then you get to move once and sit for an hour while "enemy" ships circle you and go "PEW PEW PEW!!" and then after another hour of this non-sense, you kill them and start again. This could not be a worse under exaggeration of this title. You do a lot of sitting and watching the light show they call a video game. There are no tactics whatsoever because the "new" weapons are equal to the shields every new level. So had they not even bothered giving you the option of choosing "new" guns to choose from to beat the next level, it would not have mattered anyway. You really just sit in one spot and wait until the light show is finished. Frankly that is poor design.

Great game. In many aspect it can even beat Homeworld, in my opinion. Full use of the 3D space, nice visuals, good sound, relatively slow pace (you can't really expect huge spaceships to be agile as birds). Why only 4 stars? Because of the Nav point creation mechanism. It sucks vacuum. For the tactical simulatior this part is crucial, and, unfortunately, it sucks. HW 3D control (and, from more recent examples, EVE Online tactical overview, though you can't really control the ship with it) was made way better.

I played this on my old dell B110 desktop back in the day. It was a buggy mess then but my favorite part about it is the ship management. You can upgrade your ship with different weapons and systems, and control a small fleet, each having its own purpose. The missions are pretty short and the story isnt mind blowing but I really enjoy this game. My favorite part is controlling the specific subsystems and being able to target those of your enemies.

The game has a compelling storyline, a believable world, mostly good (some corny, i admit) characters and their development in it. It´s gameplay, as a tactical space-opera, was almost unique, with challenging missions, in which some have had to be restarted and with a little bit of thinking and planning mastered. In a second playthrough though, on the hardest difficulty, you cut through the enemies like a hot knife through butter. The game has it´s flaws, but the overall experience makes it a 5 out of 5 stars.

This is a great game, truly amazing and considering that it's almost 20 years old, the graphics are absolutely amazing. It's challenging with an indepth and amazing campaign. Sadly, there's a lot of errors now. Specifically around the saved games, I find if I fail a mission I cannot restart, it errors and I have to restart the entire campaign. If i save the game for the night, I cannot load up the save in the morning (neither the auto or manual save) so yet again i must restart. Great game, but just does not work on windows 10.