Recent reviews by WrathPhoenix

Was amazing before, even better now. I think its only going to get better.

The most expansive, yet approachable sci fi experience availible to players today. Perfect for fans of Elite, Minecraft, and your favorite RPGs as well.

This game changed the industry a long time ago, and since then no other game has managed to live up to the precedent set by it. Even the NWN sequel, NWN2, paled in comparison to what the first NWN toolset had to offer. And by that extension, what the community had to offer to the players.

The game offers a little bit of everything for everyone. The campaigns themselves range from the basic to the truly spectacular. The engine performance has been improved greatly in this version and the multiplayer has been rebuilt from scratch. This means NWN content creators and Persistent World hosts can continue to use this game on modern machines without precarious workarounds and hacks.

The gameplay is there, but it can vary depending on which module you are playing. Some modules are fast paced PVP oriented affairs while others are single player / coop adventures. And of course you always have the option to drop right in and be a dungeon master (DM) to guide the story for your players as well.

This game is probably the single largest reason as to why I do what I do today professionally. You'd be doing youself a disservice not to try it out. This initial release is only going to be the beginning of what Beamdog has in their plans for modernizing this game and its engine.

There is very little I can say about this game without sounding like a fanboy. In reality, I am not... It is just truly the greatest community in a game that I have ever witnessed. The developers are kind and attentive to community needs and live right there beside the players in the world. Last night, Lord British (AKA Richard Gariott) came down with the community and did a tour of the work we had done over the past few days. He stopped by a cafe owned by my wife in game, and even had a beer and watched some PVP duels on the streets of kingsport.

This event was preceeded by him having a player roundtable to everyone present in game and letting people ask him questions directly and address player concerns. This just doesnt happen at this level in games, and this is why I have invested in this game heavily. I want to make sure this game survives and succeeds for years to come.

I have little to say that isnt said already. I am a huge fan of 4x grand strategy games. From MOO to Space Empires to GalCiv or basically any Sid Meir or Paradox title. This game is the most engaging title I have played in the genre since Space Empires. It is everything we were hoping MOO3 would be.

You can micromanage to your hearts desire but to me, I love the fact I can macromanage on the scale originally promised by MOO3. A multiple page options screen allows you to set your imperial policies wherein the AI will lovingly (and intelligently, by the way) follow through to your commands. You can have the AI automanage everything based on these policies if you choose but it will always loosen its grip when you click a ship you want to control or research you want to do in order to let you guide it.

It truly is breathtaking with the level of detail you can get down to. I specifically started as a human colony pre hyperdrive technology and have been having a lot of fun in an ancient galaxy. Watching my empire build from fledgling to become a colonial power has been quite fun.

The game is not new, but before you go on about the price i would note that this version of the game includes the base game plus over a hundred dollars worth of expansion content AND a new batch of content for the Universe version. The possibilities are endless with regards to what you can do. Want to be a pirate king? A human diplomat? A Spy Master? Fleet Admiral? Corporate Profiteer? You can do all of that and more, and have the AI cover the parts of the game you dont like... or be a hands on emperor and manage it all yourself!

One more thing. For fans who have ever played Star wars Supremacy (Rebellion, in the US) there is finally a game we can go to! The mission system and personal stories of the characters harken back to that game (As well as MOO) a LOT. Youll be quite pleased!