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I don't know where or how I found out about this Russian game. I think there were a bunch a rave reviews about this seemingly indie game about a month back or so. Played the demo and it was ok. Nothing special only because you can only play the demo for a timed period then it advertises itself and exits. The gameplay intrigued me enough to scope out the price on Amazon.com. I was shocked to see a good review by an actual game creator for this old AtariST computer game called Sundog: The Frozen Legacy, which I used to be completely addicted to. This guy claims that Space Rangers is everything that he wished he could have done with Sundog.
After that, I was sold. Bought it the next weekend and I've been playing religiously for about a month now. The majority of the game is a 2D, turn-based space adventure. You can fly to different planets and trade to build up cash. Planets usually have quests ranging from FedEx missions to "take down this Pirate in such and such star system". Some will even offer a text adventure! Yes, these are the old-timed text adventures of old and are quite fun, even if they can be oddly translated sometimes. There are even black holes you can fly into and have yet another game that is more arcade like that anything where you fly around with the WASD keys and shoot anything that moves.
When you are not flying around, interacting with other ships, trading with other planets, buying and re-fitting your ever-changing ship, you will have to occasionally fight the nefarious Dominators. Dominators are evil robots with the intent to completely wipe out all organic life. Dominators are usually fought in the 2D space, but if you land on a planet in a recently liberated star system, you will be asked to assist in wiping the remaining dominators off the planets surface. If you agree, prepare for a not-too-shabby RTS game.
So there you have it. With all these game types, and the sheer addictiveness of constantly bettering your ship and skills by doing missions and trading, its very hard to put down. You won't be blown away by the graphics really, but the fun factor and freedom to do what the hell you want anytime holds the key to this game's victory in my book. Ive put more hours into this game than Oblivion or any big name Role Playing game out there to date. Check out the reviews at Gamespy, IGN, MetaCritic, or G4. This bargain title scores high 90's all over the place. Its worth checking out.
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Unlike the other games of this gener or any other or of games which have been rehashes of old games but "dumbed down" for retarded people, this is truely a game of old. Though the graphics are sleek and the animation slick and realsitic. Many people knock this for being "boring" so why aren't they out with thier jet-set freinds instead of holing up playing nerdy games? Although the box tells of "what's new" being a better score of muzak and graphics what really stands out is that the learning curve to play it has been narrowed, yet you still have to learn. The planet exploratin is not much but what there is is fun and entertaining. The Text-based adventures on the planets are only appriciated by those who played text games in school growning up so don't even bother if you hate them. Some planetside missoins are only probing a planet for resorces and can be rewarding as well as nice to land on. The howling wind and pretty backdrops are a nice touch in a pinch some even have a special muzak theme. Then back to battle. Dispite the cheezy title "Space Rangers and the Dominators" indeed , thae game is anything but, and reminds us not to judge a game by the box(open or closed). The "Battles" are not in a pilot seat, thouhg I would have preferred that option, they are in third person but still fun if you like the Orcish stradegy games or "Orion". The most interesting part, like most people on here say, is the robots and planet reasorce gatheringa. I heard of it before purchaseing and thought "oh another "total anhilation clone" but it is less and more. The robot battles are entertaining and you can create different parts and configs as well as programs. You are only limited to "Conquere" Attack" And "defense" and I would have liked a custom script but you can later configure more body parts for this. The reasorces are not just for the planet you battle for but your own reserve for future endevors both in space and on planets. This is why it is so much more than just a strategy game like "warcarft" but less in simplicity but you have everything and just the right amount of "every" thinmg. Money is not the only requirement for ship opperations eiether, you can exploit uninhabbited worlds but you don't just go down to a planet to put your robots to work, you havev to contract with the governments for a job then and only then can you refine more than just the "trash" from wreckted space ships. Astaroids are the way to get quick minerals but no mining option, you just blow it up and dig your "hand" icon to your ship. But it's a hybrid game and only experimental and a good job for the first one, at that.
The races again, Unlike most retarded programmers choices, are all good and bad choices no race is "better" and all are diverse in the way they do thinngs, but none of the "you could do it just as easily with gold and a human" attitude as in Baldur's friggen Gate or something. Some planets are not suitable for certain races to even land on. If you have hostile retlations you can be tried and go to prison and even it is interesting becasue, agian a text adventure on planetside. A human may survive any conflict, though not too well, while other races will have an easiter or harder time in certain key quests. In pirson you have to be tough and cleaver the best race is the Malog for shere brutalaty and respect to quickly revolt but you won't do much once you do escape becasue thees creatures are inferior in space travel but thier are key abilities only avilible to them. the Pelendgs are anphibius and can breathe air, water, and even poison and any planet is suitible for exploration by these beiings they are reasorce scavengers. Feayens are feeble even by human standards(much like Ylla and Mr. Kie of the Martian chronicles I assume) they are totally out of element on a planetside mission but exceptionally well suited for space travel and dipolmacy as well as science and tech dev. They also have mental powers. Gaalins are another resource hog race and very diplomatic and relatable to every government. They make excellent leaders. I will not go into the "Domintaors" other than they are "better" than ANY other and you cannot be them. I chose a "custom" difficultiy but only make THEM the hard setting and every one else "normal." This is also a good choice making element. The game is all about choice and choice developement so get it now!
Oh the #2 uses "Starforce" so be wary. In theory they fixed a few things but I doubt much as they are very "evil galactic empirish" and it is only a "theory" and confirmed by no one as of yet. The four star over all is ONLY because of this. My PC runs well but yours may not.
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The land battles are a unique and flying around in a small universe is real cool. Trying to figure out how to finaly win and finish the game was not as easy. There is a unique look at life in different professions. This game is a real challange in thought and use of weapons. Its replay value is off the chart. This is worth the money. Prepair to spend a lot of time playing and fighting.
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I had read great review of this and I purchased it from BestBuy, but I figured I better do a quick search to see what copy protection the game housed. I was very sad to learn that this game contains Starforce, so this means I will be making a trip back to BestBuy to return it. So sad publishers decide to use this copy protection.
mark
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This game is unbelievably huge. The only problem is what do you do when you are dropped in the middle of a massive world like this without any specific plan? Makes it tough. Yes, there are thousands of missions. There is lots to do, it just picking what you should do. It's almost too much. But I love it regardless.
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