Rebel Galaxy

I'm not gonna try and provide a more helpful than the others. This game has reviews. I'm really only reviewing the game cause I liked it so much. Freelancer was one of my favourite games of all time. I love Chris Roberts' space game. This is a good stand-in for a sequel to Freelancer. It doesn't have as much depth as I'd like, and it suffers that a bit, especially from a content perspective (lack of models, VO. but I will say there was more VO than I expected going in.). It also suffers its proc. I've never been the biggest fan of proc. It tends to be boring. Only one system in my proc-galaxy was immediately really very different from the rest. It doesn't have the stark regional differentiation of Freelancer. Also the lacks the funky frontier system. So the proc element adds to the existing lack of content. What it does get right though, is feel. Plus it's heavily southern cultured. Almost like a Borderlands in space. But it does get all of that that sort of swashbuckling fly by the seat of my pants atmosphere that made Freelancer and Privateer so great. The aliens are great. Like any of the best stuff from Star Wars. The ships are fun. The weapons are good. The gameplay is fine. I didn't find the combat repetitive as others have mentioned. The handling is fine and I didn't really miss the game being locked to 2d. They in fact play with it a little bit as they have made the plane deviate so sometimes you're flying up a little high and sometimes you're flying a little low, so you do get that three-dimensional scene when you look at things sometimes. The trading I would say is a weak spot. The game clearly wasn't designed around it. It's serviceable and can be fun if that's your thing in these games but it's not practical when compared to doing missions and I never found any reliable route save one route, one way. I like the game. But I'm biased on this one. 10/10 would do business again.

Did you ever watch Firefly and think to yourself, "Man I wish they made a video game out of this?" Well, Rebel Galaxy is that video game. If you don't get that reference, let me outline the feeling of Rebel Galaxy for you. The moment you load up the game, you are hit with the opening notes of a country song out of a dark western. It sets the mood for a space frontier game where you do what you have to in order to survive and make a living. Outrun space pirates and local militia alike and strike unstable alliances as you make your own way in the galaxy as a trader, a scavenger, a smuggler, a pirate, a miner or a bit of everything After a brief introduction you are given a ship and purpose and from there on out, you do whatever you see fit. Follow the main storyline or just set out for the stars, doing odd jobs at remote space stations. You start off with a dingy cargo ship that barely holds up in combat and through earning credits, you work your way up to massive battleships that strike fear into the heart of your enemies. While you can plow straight through the game's storyline, ignoring all the optional missions and contracts, you will be tight for credits in terms of repairing and upgrading your ship. The upgrade system is deep and interesting, requiring you to remember where to acquire certain parts and leaving room for slightly different playstyles. Do you want to be a fast devil, dodging through combat and engaging in borderline dogfights? Or would you rather captain a slow moving hunk of metal with enough firepower to wipe out a small star system? While the game suffers due to the fact that all movement is done only on the X axis, exploration and combat still feels satisfying. Additionally, the game's storyline is not particularly strong or innovative. It is a fun experience and has interesting ideas, but holds little to no surprises for avid gamers. Recommended for any scoundrel who ever wanted to roam the open skies as a free man.

I had fun early on in the game as i was learning the ropes, buying and upgrading some ships, but it got boring very quickly as I realized that the rest of the game would be just doing exactly what i was doing already. Start in this space area, build your ship, go on missions which just repeated and repeated. Go fetch this, go kill this. You can try trading, but unless your very lucky you'll wind up carrying junk around until eventually you might find a place to sell, and if full you can't pick up loot as you roam about. Then you move to the next space area, and do the same stuff. Just with your stronger ship, and against stronger ships. Fight after fight.. all the same. over and over. I got bored in the 2nd space area, and oh, there are like 4 more areas to go! great.. no thanks, im bored in this one.

It has progression, sea based side type battles which isn't that much of a stretch to get used to and makes fighting a lot of ships more manageable, a decent choice of missions if you want to pick any of them (not required to progress). It's fun, it does have a Freelancer feel to it without being a cheap knock off and it plays tight with no bugs. If you're looking for a space captain game with the elements I've mentioned that is a nice solo experience, take a look.

Battles are fun, but most of the game is spent slowly travelling from one place to another.