Posted November 11, 2014
This game should be superb. It should be one of the best space-sims available, even 13 years on after it's release.
The programmers of the main game code itself, the graphic designers, SFX people, music writing people at Particle Systems were geniuses.
Shame about the lower end programmers who just scripted the missions. These donkeys could not even manage
10 PRINT "BUGS! BUGS! BUGS! CRASH!"
20 GOTO 10
Without at least 30 fatal errors in their code.
This game's single player campaign is LAUGHABLY poor quality - and you will hit many unsurmountable bugs (The Dagda System bug for example) after about 15 - 20 missions. The game has NO "single player free roam" to speak of, and multiplayer servers seem non-existent anymore. I can find NO modding tools or community still alive neither - even though some relic mods from it's heyday do still exist. This single player game is pretty much all this game has, and that is utterly broken - or it was for me anyway!!!!!
PS/ That stupid "free flight" mode where you just charge about like a headless chicken under constant building up in intensity attacks - which you can barely survive more than 2 minutes on - IS NOT A "FREE ROAM" MODE!!!!!
I was even offered a refund my GOG when I first contacted customer support over this Dagda System crash bug - but I declined it, with the possibility of checking out a well known I-War 2 mod called "Torn Stars".
I wish now I had accepted their refund offer. This "Torn Stars" is UTTERLY boring and a waste of time IMHO. At the rate you make profits it would require 1000s of doing nothing but to and from trading runs from simple metal and ore mines and processing stations that will buy the ores..... and once you've spent several years doing that you find that almost ALL of I-War 2's juicy weapons systems and ship gadgets are NEVER available to buy!
"Torn Stars" only uses the basic ship systems and weapons you'd find yourself with on the first few tutorial missions in the single campaign. And you can only buy and fly just the Tug, Patcom and Corvette ships..... if it had ALL the weapons, gadgets and ships in the game - even right up to the Cruisers it would have been a different story!
And no, you can't buy any of those big freighters neither - so how you meant to carry cargo then, you ask? Well, you have to hire a freighter as a wing man! The whole system is just ill-fitting and works poorly, the programmers of Torn Stars were really trying to ram a square peg into a round hole, expecting to get I-War 2 to do something the game engine was NOT capable of. An impossible dream you could say.
Torn Stars could have been a winner. But no, you'll just spend years slowly gathering cash, and then find there is nothing new to spend it on.
Utterly pointless!!!!!
IMO this game has nothing to offer I'm afraid, just move along and look elsewhere. (And not to I-War 1 neither).
It was all promise but nothing delivered.
Of course, maybe you might not, on your system, encounter the same bugs in the campaign as I did - even so - once you've completed this campaign - that's it - nothing more to see or do.
If you really must buy this game - wait for it to be on a strong offer! DO NOT buy at full price!!!!! And even when cheap, it's at your own risk!!!!!
Feel free to read through my many other rants and raves on this forum - and please try not to be swayed by the many over optimistic comments about IWar2 that abound in this forum. Many of the other posters won't like me saying that..... but please keep a skeptical mind at all times about this game, don't get bewitched by it. I believe you'll be disappointed severely if you buy it.
The programmers of the main game code itself, the graphic designers, SFX people, music writing people at Particle Systems were geniuses.
Shame about the lower end programmers who just scripted the missions. These donkeys could not even manage
10 PRINT "BUGS! BUGS! BUGS! CRASH!"
20 GOTO 10
Without at least 30 fatal errors in their code.
This game's single player campaign is LAUGHABLY poor quality - and you will hit many unsurmountable bugs (The Dagda System bug for example) after about 15 - 20 missions. The game has NO "single player free roam" to speak of, and multiplayer servers seem non-existent anymore. I can find NO modding tools or community still alive neither - even though some relic mods from it's heyday do still exist. This single player game is pretty much all this game has, and that is utterly broken - or it was for me anyway!!!!!
PS/ That stupid "free flight" mode where you just charge about like a headless chicken under constant building up in intensity attacks - which you can barely survive more than 2 minutes on - IS NOT A "FREE ROAM" MODE!!!!!
I was even offered a refund my GOG when I first contacted customer support over this Dagda System crash bug - but I declined it, with the possibility of checking out a well known I-War 2 mod called "Torn Stars".
I wish now I had accepted their refund offer. This "Torn Stars" is UTTERLY boring and a waste of time IMHO. At the rate you make profits it would require 1000s of doing nothing but to and from trading runs from simple metal and ore mines and processing stations that will buy the ores..... and once you've spent several years doing that you find that almost ALL of I-War 2's juicy weapons systems and ship gadgets are NEVER available to buy!
"Torn Stars" only uses the basic ship systems and weapons you'd find yourself with on the first few tutorial missions in the single campaign. And you can only buy and fly just the Tug, Patcom and Corvette ships..... if it had ALL the weapons, gadgets and ships in the game - even right up to the Cruisers it would have been a different story!
And no, you can't buy any of those big freighters neither - so how you meant to carry cargo then, you ask? Well, you have to hire a freighter as a wing man! The whole system is just ill-fitting and works poorly, the programmers of Torn Stars were really trying to ram a square peg into a round hole, expecting to get I-War 2 to do something the game engine was NOT capable of. An impossible dream you could say.
Torn Stars could have been a winner. But no, you'll just spend years slowly gathering cash, and then find there is nothing new to spend it on.
Utterly pointless!!!!!
IMO this game has nothing to offer I'm afraid, just move along and look elsewhere. (And not to I-War 1 neither).
It was all promise but nothing delivered.
Of course, maybe you might not, on your system, encounter the same bugs in the campaign as I did - even so - once you've completed this campaign - that's it - nothing more to see or do.
If you really must buy this game - wait for it to be on a strong offer! DO NOT buy at full price!!!!! And even when cheap, it's at your own risk!!!!!
Feel free to read through my many other rants and raves on this forum - and please try not to be swayed by the many over optimistic comments about IWar2 that abound in this forum. Many of the other posters won't like me saying that..... but please keep a skeptical mind at all times about this game, don't get bewitched by it. I believe you'll be disappointed severely if you buy it.
Post edited November 11, 2014 by JMayer70