Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Nexus is a great game in terms of space combat. Gorgeous effects and ship design. Even the sight of a ship exploding is gorgeous. HOwever, the real down side of the game is the speed of the campaign missions. There's no way of speeding up your time or pausing it so you must endure the real time speed of events and combat. That being said, the game is still a gorgeous title too play.

I had this when it first came out, and then it was great. even now I think the graphics hols up, even better than some games now, but this isn't a hold your hand cake walk. some missions unless your very lucky you will have to do again and again till you find the sweet spot. highly recommend it,

The entire time you hope you can actually DO something in the game. You find the game won't let you. Why? Simple, everyone has weapons in the game that do nothing at all. There aren't any tactics at all either. You basically are told by the game where to go. You go there and pretend to choose your stockpile of weapons. Then you get to move once and sit for an hour while "enemy" ships circle you and go "PEW PEW PEW!!" and then after another hour of this non-sense, you kill them and start again. This could not be a worse under exaggeration of this title. You do a lot of sitting and watching the light show they call a video game. There are no tactics whatsoever because the "new" weapons are equal to the shields every new level. So had they not even bothered giving you the option of choosing "new" guns to choose from to beat the next level, it would not have mattered anyway. You really just sit in one spot and wait until the light show is finished. Frankly that is poor design.

Great game. In many aspect it can even beat Homeworld, in my opinion. Full use of the 3D space, nice visuals, good sound, relatively slow pace (you can't really expect huge spaceships to be agile as birds). Why only 4 stars? Because of the Nav point creation mechanism. It sucks vacuum. For the tactical simulatior this part is crucial, and, unfortunately, it sucks. HW 3D control (and, from more recent examples, EVE Online tactical overview, though you can't really control the ship with it) was made way better.

I played this on my old dell B110 desktop back in the day. It was a buggy mess then but my favorite part about it is the ship management. You can upgrade your ship with different weapons and systems, and control a small fleet, each having its own purpose. The missions are pretty short and the story isnt mind blowing but I really enjoy this game. My favorite part is controlling the specific subsystems and being able to target those of your enemies.