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| From: Clear Crown Studios
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $5.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 14417
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: real_time_strategy_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.7 x 0.7
MPN: 00003
Model: 181424000033
UPC: 181424000033
EAN: 0181424000033
ASIN: B000UXQGYQ
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-7 of 7
 Very disappointed September 13, 2008
Carol Kosman (auburndale, fl United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am very disappointed. I thought it would be more fun then it is. It can be very difficult at times to control where you are wanting to go.
 Give it a chance... October 13, 2008
je48 (La Quinta, CA)
I guess I'm going to be going against the grain here, but I really liked this game. I think that it's getting fairly negative reviews because a lot of people are just turned off by the graphics, and I suspect that others just don't get the controls. It takes a bit of getting used to, but after some learning how to deal with objects that are constantly moving I find that the game has a lot to offer.
I really like the huge range of customization that the ships in the game afford the player. Rather than the standard one or two different versions of a unit that most other games in the genre have, this game really lets you customize a ship to a great degree. There are literally hundreds of different combinations you can make to a ship, and that customization is accurately represented on the ship model in the game. It's pretty impressive how many different units you can have flying around, all with a specialized ability or task that they are equipped to handle.
the use of moving planets is a cool part of the game, and it really makes this different from most RTSes that give you a standard playing field to wander about in. Depending on if you're a run-and-gun type of player, or a careful "turtle" who holes up to build your forces before attacking, you face a vastly different battlefield due to other planets rotating into close range. Since I'm a turtle, it kind of keeps me on my toes because I never know if I'm safe or not.
Most people out there aren't going to go crazy over the graphics, but I'm not one of those people that really cares too much about these things. I think a lot of people like to claim that "it's not about the graphics", but I think that if this game had a bunch of whiz-bang effects they would have rated it higher (I'm not just talking about here on Amazon, but on the gaming sites as well). The graphics were fine to me, but my computer isn't a tricked-out rig so I don't really go for the graphics-heavy titles anyway.
All-in-all I really like the risks that this game took, and I think that it offered a good path away from the same-old stuff like other games in the genre. It seems that a lot of people aren't willing to give it a chance, but if you're into an RTS with a deep customization scheme and a lot of different offensive tactics, you should give it a try.
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