Posted on: August 16, 2016
hw75
Games: 96 Reviews: 1
So bad, even with low expectations
I had pretty low expectations for this game, but it's just horrible in about every aspect. While the planets look indeed quite different at first glance, you have the feeling you've seen everything after a dozen or so. The numerous structures you find all over each planet, have almost no differences which completely ruins the immersion of exploring the unknown. The UI is annoying, with delays by design for each simple click. Inventory management is made inconvenient by purpose. Flight controls are some kind of "half on rails" when flying over the planet, it doesn't even give full control, e.g. you pitch down the nose and still can't go lower. Graphics are beyond ridiculous, as numerously reported all over the net. Strange FOV, texture bugs, bad FPS with high end graphics card. Planet textures from distance look pretty bad, warp animation looks horrible. There are not even simplest quests, instead you need to recharge your suit every few minutes which feels just annoying too after an hour of playtime. I thought this could be an Elite:Dangerous killer, but you aren't even half as immersed when it comes to feeling being in a big galaxy. Trading, combat, progress, factions, everything is so much worse. The procedural planets were a promising approach, unfortunately the game around it is of the quality of a Unity3D tutorial game. It's a nice tech demo (once the graphics issues get fixed at least) that can be fun for a few hours, but gets super boring quite fast. Price should be around 10-20 bucks at maximum.
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