MSI Communication Intercept for Moral Officer Evaluation. Review of private communications log: HERC Janitorial Technician.: Mars Prada HERC base: Ionis System. Communication Exerpts. "This is a fun title from my childhood though it is not a perfect game or a perfect port." "Some small quality-of-life features are missing such as being able to click on Bioderm portraits to get their history... or rather the history of the person who provided the genetic profile used to create them." "The game can feel a bit grindy in the persuit of credits to outfit your HERC taskforce." "I'm not 100% certain, but I think in the original game you could not rank up simply by taking the more profitable mining missions. You had to take the more dangerous and exciting (But low paying) military missions to advance. However, playing now I could rank up exclusively on mining missions and doing so rarely meant i had more money than I could spend." "This game is very atmospheric and has a lot of personality which I appreciate. Not everything is explained however. Word to the wise, better life-support systems have more HP-- even if the other benefits of a better system might be wasted it may be worth-while to upgrade otherwise you could lose your entire HERC and not understand how they were taken out so fast." "I recommend losing and going into debt at least once on a save file you can delete later. Senior Moral Officer's Brief Unitech Command. "Cut this Technician from duty at once! Leave him in the path of a Cybrid patrol once the fleet moves out. Dissent will not be tolarated, gentlemen."
I buy games from GOG precisely because I don't want the hassle and frustration of trying to monkey around and find patches and special settings to get games to run. This game doesn't meet the bar. I get the opening sequence, the first mission briefing, and the ability to outfit my squad, but the game crashes when I try to start the first mission. For folks that can get it running from what I can see it looks like a pretty decent game.
