Recent reviews by Fuzz

You feed the factory, you get items. You then do research, you feed the factory more, you get better items. then you either have a colossal mess or a finely tuned machine of pure awesomeness.

If you played single player the whole time, prepare for the power of colabaration! Sometimes you join a multiplayer game and just don't do anything for 10 minutes because you are going "wow... wow.. wow.. that's awesome... wow. WOOOOOW!!!"

Buy the game, have fun.

Best way to play is MAD! Mutually Assured Destruction!

I compare how more current games are not as good when compared to Rainbow Six Vegas 2

You will play this game, love it and then realise you can't play this anymore from the emotional stress

Expected SWAT4, got nothing.

I was going through the reviews and noticed a lot of the negative reviews were outdated.

This game has had a colourful history and was "released" earlier than it should have been. I say "released" because the game was under contract for a release deadline. Not a smart thing to do since you game has a list of features that weren't/aren't finished yet. This still stands and some features are yet to be fully included.

Having said that, the one thing people complain about was offline play which has been included since most of the negative reviews were made. The server is still a little buggy whether playing online or offline (offline is actually a server running locally on your computer) where you are kicked back to the main menu because the server's game has crashed. I find this to be an uncommon occurance but it happens.

Gameplay wise, it's standard RTS in style with the added bonus of inter-planetary travel, being able to build a Deathstar or building a few rockets big enough to smash a planet into another planet. You also can fight it out in orbit with a few orbital units, one being a superweapon. If you played Total Annihilation, you feel some similarities.

There are a few balance issues with the game and Galactic War can be brutal at times. Galactic War is the single-player option for the game and doesn't have any story other than, you are a commander who has woken up after some long period of time and whose mission is to annhilate the enemy. Moving around the map can be annoying but the sytems have nice little bits of lore about them adding that little bit of story to the game itself.

The game feels a lot like it has been targeted to be played networked (the Internet is a network if you didn't actually know that). I play th is with friends and even at LAN parties. and provides some fun. There is also Chronocam, nifty feature that lets you replay any moment in the match so far.

The biggest letdown in the game is optimisation. Depending on who you play with either AI or humans prepare for the simulation to slowdown. One game second can turn in to 2 real seconds. This is basically because there are 1000s of units being calculated and most likely being processed in to chronocam. So I wish there was a unit cap to prevent the server from being overloaded.

Graphics are fairly average and some look a little cartoonish. The graphics have obviously been scaled down to a mininum because it would be hard to render the amount units that could be present at any one time and also because you probably aren't in a zoom level to see them half the time. The textures have also been simplified in this regard as I believe they are procedural virtual textures, meaning they are created by your computer based on the information the game has given it.

I'll touch on mods. There are so many mods you can acquire and some are worth checking out. Make sure you install PAMM as it will make it easy to find and install them.

Overall, I have fun playing this game and dispite some shortcomings it's still a game worth having.