Posted on: June 23, 2024
Strijkbout
Verified ownerGames: 720 Reviews: 24
Streamlined 2D capital ship combat
In short Rebel Galaxy is essentially Privateer or Freelancer with a capital ship with movement restrictions in the 2D plane. Visually it looks like a well polished AAA game and really plays nice with a controller from the couch. The soundseffects are generally great too and as for the music it has some licensed modern country rock songs and while a good soundtrack overall the lack of different songs made me turn it off after a couple of hours. Double Damage did a good job designing the spacecraft, at least the larger ships look interesting as I never got a good look of the smaller fighter sized craft. Visiting space stations is very reminiscent of Privateer. It has all the amenities as ship and part dealers, commodities, bar, mission board, etc. It's lacking in the variety department though, it has a couple of dozen solar systems but there is nothing to differentiate between any of them, they look and play all the same. As for things to do, you have the main story line, which is not only very short, lengthened by the fact you need better equipment every time you progress, the story is also a bit generic, it's not bad but let's just say it won't win any prizes for it. Other than that the only thing you can do is the missions on the mission board. That's because trading isn't really an option, as these huge ships you fly have tiny cargo holds and space stations don't have a lot in stock. The other option is piracy but that just swaps fighting militia for pirates instead. And that is a bit of the crux with Rebel Galaxy that it is a bit too streamlined, there is no crew management, no real variety of locations, people and factions that matter and lacks any depth of tactical game play like carrying fighter aircraft for example. Still, I had a good time playing it for the first couple of hours, after that boredom crept up.
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