Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

I have it on steam , Id buy it again on GoG, Great game, well worth it and the extra's make it even better. Ship to ship combat is entertaining and has a very cinematic feel

Still have the box with manual and discs for this. It dropped in price within months of release like MOO3 did and I picked it up for $10 nearly 10 years ago, so I don't know how GOG gets off on $10 for a digital copy of this game now. Regardless, it's a high quality game. What brings the score down is lack of online and the fact that you can go through hard missions with torpedo spam. Torpedoes run out of ammo yeah, but by then 1 of your ships will have wiped 3 or 4 of the enemy ships. A whole fleet decked with a few torpedoes can really hurt. This was spammed online obviously. But online was fantastic if you found a server where everyone agreed to no torps. Sadly online is non-existent anymore, so this game is just a single-player husk of the short glory it had online. 3 stars for GOG not being able to give us the best part of the game.

I game of epic proportions has arrived! With what I think has fantastic storyline and game play topped with good sound and graphics mean that I will defiantly be adding this to my library. I did have problems getting my original game cd to run on my pc so I am hoping that GOG have done their magic on this little Gem and I look forward to wasting all my time on it :). Defiantly worth a try if you haven't tried this game.

BSOD during launch on Win10

First and foremost, this game (like so many others!) breaks the cardinal sin of space game design by making interstellar travel hopelessly dependent on what I like to call "cosmic convenience", which in this case is a convenient network of wormholes that just happens to connect the star systems together. What annoys me even more is the fact that NPC's talk about this bullshit logistical weakness totally straight-faced; on the level where you first witness the "interplanetary drive" in action, the lead scientist on board your ship spouts something along the lines of "that should not be possible!", to which my response would be to throw him out the airlock and tell him to go to Egosoft, where he belongs! The game claims to feature "realistic planetary orbits" which, in practice, is only ever seen on the between-mission briefing screens because stellar objects are nothing but skybox textures in actual gameplay, which gives you a great sense of going NOWHERE! In combat, your control over the ships under your command is bar-of-soap-in-bath loose at best because the AI keeps forgetting your orders, forcing you to reiterate them every 5 seconds but even when they're carried out, they're done so as vague suggestions instead of direct orders. Then there are the piss-weak, lacklustre, rock-paper-scissors weapons that just make battles drag on and on until their exact firing rhythm gets stuck in your head. There's also very little imagination in the ship models, a fair few of which are just blatantly ripped off from Babylon 5! The only enjoyable moment of this game, for me, was when I saw my douche-bag admirals' ship get destroyed, until I found out in the next briefing that the arrogant sod had survived. It was around that time that I'd had enough of this rubbish and called it a day.