Posted on: August 7, 2010

Aveimperator

Jeux: 705 Avis: 14

A flawed gem

Great space-sim action. The space combat is fun, graphically impressive and the best since Privateer and Freelancer. However, it's not much of a trading game since it is much easier to make money as a bounty hunter. The settings are also very generic and fast become boring (each system has a trade station and other similar ingredients). There is no real differing character, atmosphere or feel to the different systems (other than the space stations and ships for each race look different). It starts out being fun to play, but ends up being boring very quickly as missions and tasks tend to be fairly repetitive (except for the campaign missions). I gave up playing the game halfway when one of the campaign missions put me in a massive, maze-like factory (without an automap) and had me flying around aimlessly looking for the "yellow door". Such a shame as the developers had the space combat part down great - if only they had put more effort into the other aspects of the game.

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Posted on: December 3, 2011

Warlord711

Jeux: 51 Avis: 1

Mismanagement

This game was a title i was looking forward too, at the first time it was announced. Ascaron is a very good studio, or better said, was a good studio. They were getting part of Kalypso the time Darkstar One was developed. Kalypso is a bad company. Dont misunderstand me, the programmers and the dev stuff are good, but management is stupid as hell. But its same on most game dev companies, some idiots only see the fast money they can make asap, selling a 30% finished game. You can see it here. It works on companies with big budget, doing a agressive marketing like EA and Ubisoft. They also selling broken/alpha state games, but with their great marketing, the customer take it "as it is". Kalypso doesnt have any big budget, so Darkstar One flopped so hard and cutting a deep wound into the companies balance. Ascaron for themself, made some amazing games like the Patrician Series, man i love that game... To bad a handful of idiots at the top of a company can ruin one game after another without any consequences.

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Posted on: November 16, 2012

forsaken84

Jeux: 66 Avis: 2

OMG SOOOO BAD!!

I played 3 missions of this game and had to put it down, I paid £40 for this game and I could of cried probably the worst £40 I have ever spent on any game, the graphics is terrible, the game play is dull, the voice acting is tragic, probably the worst flight sim game ever made.

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Posted on: January 14, 2018

LOMINIA2

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Jeux: Avis: 3

Let Down by Rubbish Weapons

I don't really see the point of a combat game where you have to retreat to charge your weapons to make them effective. it's stupid and boring. This rubbish mechanic is on the turret defense on space stations ( think of the quad guns failing on the Millennium Falcon 5 second into combat and Han Solo sitting there with his thumb up his arse waiting for them to recharge.) Stupid frustrating and annoying. Are these space stations operating on car batteries? considering about 90% of this is combat you'll be swearing alot at the lame weapon mechanic. it's also got an awful maze sequence half way through which has a timer section to compound the misery. Get rebel galaxy instead. I was sorry when I completed that. This, i might just watch the end on you tube.

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Posted on: December 20, 2008

Daz

Jeux: 402 Avis: 1

A solid space sim

If you're new to the Space-sim genre and want to start with something a little less involved than something like X-3, this game is perfect. If you're a space sim veteran, this game is still worth your time, as it takes the standard space sim and makes it slightly less involved - You wont play a single run for several months to years... Unlike other space sim games, DSO is much more linear, which some players will find better, as you're not without any direction or idea on what you should do next. Combat features heavily in the game and is much harder to avoid than in the X titles (as an example). The combat controls are very intuitive, handling moving in all directions and changing speeds easily. The trading aspect of the game is adequate for the title, but if you're after a space trading game, you may find other titles more appropriate. The trading is reasonably simplistic and the economy reacts only to your actions. In short, this is a good introductory Space Sim title that features most of the features of more focused space-sims, in a streamlined package that makes it much more friendly than other titles in the genre. The voice acting isn't truly amazing, but it wont make you turn off the speakers. Some of the plot points are a little bit tired, especially in the genre ("Your father, my good friend died. Sorry. He was a good man. On the plus side, he left you a ship! Since you have a ship, can you do me a quick favour..?"), although I didn't complete the game to give a good view of the entire plot.

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