I am really system shocked and pleasantly surprised that this is really the System Shock I played years ago but better looking, more enjoyable with a ragdoll physics system, really good looking graphics and lighting but with a stylized pixel look if you examine closely. The interaction animations and the intro being playable really took me back to that time that I wished I saw that Blade Runner city from the intro myself and it allows you now! Ok, from far away but you can check another childhood fantasy. Gameplay is challenging and really tense sometimes yet it is familiar from both System Shock and it's younger brothers, the Bioshock series. Any players from both of them will feel right at home. Even the new color pallette is remniscent of first Bioshock and System Shock together. Absolute joy to play and a diamond among the stinking pile of would be "remakes" which ar a hundred times worse than originals, even in graphics. A good old game resurrected for our new era of proper gaming, yet to come with the aid of GoG. Buy it and store it DRM free for your future generation!
Each and evey one of these games are the prime examples of spaceship simulators and in the case of X-wing / Tie-Fighter series, immersion in Star Wars theme is also top notch. Do try to get a joystick or if you can run this on some handheld device of the must-not-be named rival to GOG they are great great fun. Unbeliavable that a few pixels gives a simulator enthusiast such joy! P.S : GOG, moderation please. Some fake accounts are trying to take over reviews section and posts scam links, so wake up and take action.
"Perfect game" reviewers should return and play Heroes 3 or even heroes 2 again. This is a game that is "inspired" by two games apparently. "Ripped" maybe a more suitable term for it infact. It gets nearly all building and place concepts, overworld treasure hunting and vision obelisks thing, turn based movement and movement bar, artifacts, unit ideas... and much of the game from HoMM3 but with Realm of the Mad God style ultra low detail, worse pixel art. The battles are HoMM like, one side yourself one side enemy/castle but that is all about it. The battle itself is more akin to Realm of the Mad God style units run and bump or shoot dots at eachother until either side is dead. It is real time but you can give not very effective orders for units to target some other spesifically... or not. It doesn't really work good and units given new orders tend to be stuck with other moving units and fail to reach the targeted enemy. So don't expect to see many neat unit skills or tactics in effect. Most units start and runnto the closest enemy to bump or shoot them till dead. One exception to this is summoner units. They summon other units to bump and shoot at the nearest enemy... Yeah as you have guessed, not much tactical or flavorful depth here. Only real choice is the units you bring to batlle as there is a limit how many units you can field at once; so don't dream on fielding a giant blob of skeleton army. The unit choices are numerous, a few original ones but most of them are again copied from HoMM series. To conclude, this is a way overpriced HoMM ripoff with Realm of the Mad God style ultra low detail pixel art and semi real time battles, wit near to no strategical depth but has many units and races, even they are ripped across the HoMM series. Only buy if you played and squeezed all the fun from HoMM 1-7, Disciples 1-3, Master of Magic, Age of Wonders Series and still want something to vaguely akin to those great games, and on a DEEP sale.
DragonStrike is a simulation game where you ride metallic dragons and fight against the evil dragonarmy of Takhisis. It takes place in the Dragonlance setting, world of Krynn which is an old epic fantasy setting. We are such a hero, who is a Dragonrider in the ranks of Knights of Solamnia, a knightly order defending Krynn from all kinds of evil forces. The story is parallel to the latter half of the War of the Lance and it is okay. We start small (well relatively, as Dragonriders are in fact pretty high in order compared to other knights already) and ascend the ranks of the order by doing missions. We can get new dragon mounts and items as we progress through the ranks of the order (or change into other Solamnic Orders). Much of the story is told in-between missions with a text and some still images but that's all. Gameplay is like a basic flight simulator game from the era of Wing Commander, with breath weapons (similar to missiles in space simulators), dragon natural weapons (claws, bites) and lance jousting. You position your lance and try to connect the tip with the enemy. Breath wepons has a recharge timer so you have to use them strategically. The game is in the harder part of the scale for flight simulators as you and your dragon have separate HP's and if you are not careful, you can end up dying from a single breath wepon to the rider. It is always better to approach enemy dragons from above as they can claw or bite the rider or place a dragon breath right in front of you. You can even fall from your dragon and it makes a check to catch you! Your most common enemies are evil dragons and other flying creatures in addition to more mundane ones like ships. Gameplay and the controls are dated but overall, this is an unique and decent game which lets you be a Solamnic Knight and a Dragonrider. 4 stars if you are a fan of Dragonlance and Knights of Solamnia, deduct one if none of them rings a bell.
