I love Star Control 2 to bits, so picking up Star Control 3 is easy. SC3 has a lot of cool bits. The 3D starmap looks amazing, the space exploration is fun, the new races are quirky, the pseudo-3D combat is great! However, one thing that was quite disappointing in my opinion is how easy it is. Once you convince one of the new races to join you, I believe it has one of the best ships and powers in the game and like me, you'll probably just use that for the rest of the game. The built-in hint system also makes the game super-easy, taking away the reward for patient exploration of the galaxy. Also, a few plot twists that has been played in SC2 gets repeated in SC3. I won't spoil it for you, but had you played SC2, you will find yourself saying "Not this again!". It shows lazy story-telling on the devs part. SC3 is a good sci-fi adventure game nonetheless, but in my eyes, it had the potential to be as great as SC2.
