Posted on: July 31, 2018

den2k

Games: 126 Reviews: 4

Clunkiest control system ever

The premises are good, the voice acting is great but playing the game on a PC with mouse and keyboard is masochism. Buttons sharing several functions, pointing items in menus actually working like an old DOS game - when you click it doesn't always activate what you're pointing but what's "active" in that moment. The fighting system might be good in a RTS but the pacing is way too fast to activate the modes - which are scattered all over the keyboard - and actually fire, the handling of the ship is *painful* and it has the habit of accelerating on its own volition. After 20 minutes it gave me nausea and a headache, and I'm a hardcore gamer since 1993 with tens of thousands of hours in many games, even the old Descent and Descent II. It could be great but its controls are really horrible, even remapping them doesn't help. Apropos the remapping: it can't match the correct icon to many buttons, so 0 of numpad gets depicted either as "Q" or as an arrow key, depending on what button you remapped the previous step. All lateral mouse buttons become depicted as Left Click, despite being recognized by the system. Is this a pre-release? Luckily I've waited the maximum discount to buy this game or I'd be very, very, very pissed.

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Posted on: June 17, 2017

RadYogh

Verified owner

Games: 731 Reviews: 2

Simplified 2d space stuff...

This game realy sucks! It's a 2d space world that looks "a bit 3d", awful controls. Ships have many weapon groups and you can't realy use them, you can use only one at a time - all others are sometimes fired automaticaly or not used at all. It looks like developers didn't know what they want to do, game is a way too simplified in some parts and too complex in other parts. It also reminded me X: Tension, but that game was A LOT better in everything, I think even graphics looked better there!

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Posted on: July 20, 2017

Meezl

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 8

Ruined by xbox

Nice looking game, interesting idea, cool effects and all - and another game ruined by "plays great with controller", by which they, of course, again mean xbox controllers ONLY and by which they of course mean that they've spent no time checking how the mouse input feels. Sluggish and with the typical one-degree-forward-two-degrees-back turning behaviour every console port suffers from. Well, I have a rumblepad from 2006 and it seems unless microsoft can cross-market their xbox with it, these things aren't a "controller" any more. For any PC gamer that doesn't think every game should cater to the lazy couch-and-TV steamroom gamer, don't buy this.

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Posted on: January 3, 2021

Danglebert

Verified owner

Games: 809 Reviews: 24

Poor

Horrible 2d combat; selling it as "naval style" which is a lame excuse. Elite dangerous or the X series are better at economics - I-War is better at the whole space-sim topic and at the turret combat. Another problem are the insufficient tutorials; the quirky controls and the checkpoint saving. I would prefer to save when docked at a station not automatically in the middle of nowhere. The game gets 1 star for average graphics and 1 star for the general Firefly-theme.

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Posted on: December 6, 2015

Darcin

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 39

Would rate lower if possible

I suppose my previous less than awesome review was lost. Pros: Graphics are actually nice. I found the music unique, but enjoyable. I rather enjoyed the broadside usage instead of usual starship all directions lasers. Cons: Poorly play tested. The first mission alone causes confusion, to which I eventually had to resort to an online FAQ. Turns out the guy I was suppose to talk to wasn't where he was supposed to be. There are three speeds: Warp, Sublight, and some unnamed slow mode. Sometimes the computer will successfully change speeds and all is well. Other times, it doesn't and you just ram the space station. Entirely haphazard. Designed entirely for a console controller. Keyboard and mouse controls are possibly the worst I've ever encountered. It is nearly impossible to select the proper target with the mouse if there's more than one large obvious target on screen. The computer constantly tries to guess what you're targeting and, from what I've seen constantly, guesses wrong. Save game management: there isn't any. It autosaves when you reach a space station, like a checkpoint. If you want to restore from an earlier point, too bad. You can only "save" at space stations. Should you get run over by a huge party of pirates on the way back from a mission, you can just start over instead. Early on, pirates can be VASTLY more powerful than you are, sometimes come in groups, and for some reason, you can't warp away if somebody bad is nearby. This caused a lot of restarting. Mining, which seems to be considered a source of income, is impossibly tedious. Some asteroids contain ore, some don't. To find out which is which, you have to enter "scan mode" and check them all out one at a time. As stated earlier, doing this with the mouse is nearly impossible due to targeting problems, so hit the throttle on the whiskey, you'll need it to calm your nerves. All things considered, this is currently in my bottom 5 games on GoG.

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