Star wars empire at war nexus9/5/2023 ![]() Otherwise, the sound was generally awesome. The only voices that seemed a little excessive and over the top were one of the more violent alien races, but only just barely. The variety of characters and their interactions create a pretty good dramatic backdrop for the action. I never found myself wishing they would shut up. There is a lot of spoken dialogue between and during missions, and thankfully, the actors are almost universally perfectly cast. Speaking of sound, the voice acting is surprisingly good. Also, the sound effects are top notch, with a number of really odd sound effects for the weapons, and also for the other bizarre occurrences you'll encounter while travelling the galaxy. The weapons all have distinctive looks and effects, and when lots of stuff is happening simultaneously, things can get exciting. Of course, one of the great things about this game is the fact that even when you're just watching battles unfold, you'll be pleased, because the game looks pretty great. This keeps things from getting too repetitive or dull. There are a variety of situations you'll encounter, however, such that you're not always in a straight-up combat situation. It's pretty much attack an enemy's shields, knock them out, attack their hull, rinse, repeat. The battles themselves are pretty fun, but like I said, it doesn't always feel like you have that many options. This is mildly frustrating, but you generally have enough resource points that you can pretty much get what you'll want or need to complete a mission. ![]() You have to get rid of it completely, and you get no credit for having it. But if you've already got a light weapon in that slot, you can't move it to another dedicated light weapon slot. You'll want to take that multi-use light weapon/scanner slot and put a data scanner into it. So, let's say you're going on a recon mission. The problem stems from the fact that some slots can be used for more than one type of item. However, each hardpoint slot can only be used for certain types of devices or weapons. Most ships come with somewhere between a dozen and perhaps thirty hardpoints where all manner of weapons, engines, shields, and miscellaneous devices can be attached. Luckily, this is a mostly smooth process, although I did find one thing that bothered me. Of course, you can always restart missions, but this entails reconfiguring your weapon and device load-outs. If you don't have the best assortment of weaponry (and trust me, there are a lot of options), battles can take forever to complete. Often, it feels like you're just along for the ride while things just happen. The gameplay is pretty good, but not great. You also pick up more support ships as the game progresses, and more and greater powers with your primary vessel. You start out with an unimpressive cruiser, but soon discover alien technology and a much cooler ship with lots of neat abilities, which you control most of the game. Things progress fairly quickly, and that is one of the strengths of the game. You start the game working for one of the handful of megacorporations that basically run space travel in the solar system. Your family has a proud history of space exploration and combat, and your father disappeared trying to pass through a wormhole with a colonization fleet. The basic story of the game is that you play the role of Marcus Cromwell, a war hero that had gone missing for some ten years before being recovered from hibernation in orbit around Mars. ![]() For the most part, I have not been disappointed. I saw Nexus at a game store recently, and based on the review here on Gamespot, I purchased it a couple days later. So, I've been looking for good space-themed sci-fi games to tide me over for the coming months. Between the recent debate and decision about what formally constitutes a planet, and all the hype surrounding the impending arrival of Spore, I've been worked into a frenzy over the last few months. By tOrchie | Review Date: SeptemFirst of all, let me say that I'm a big sci-fi and astronomy buff.
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