Posted August 04, 2009
It’s a boardgame at heart, right? Surely, if you strip out the baffling interface and superfluous 3D engine, you’ll be left with a hardcore strategy game that’ll eat up the hours. Surely?
Well, yes and no. Yes, because the setting is novel and it’s always fun to play a game that taxes the grey matter. But mainly no. No, because the game mechanics are simple and repetitive. No, because it’s a game that disguises itself as something much more complicated than it actually is. No because, in the end, it’s a bit dull.
I really wanted to like this game, but I got bored before I finished it. So it gets three stars for being out there as a concept, but it’d take the most beardy of strategists to extract any lasting fun from this ambitious but fatally flawed game.
Well, yes and no. Yes, because the setting is novel and it’s always fun to play a game that taxes the grey matter. But mainly no. No, because the game mechanics are simple and repetitive. No, because it’s a game that disguises itself as something much more complicated than it actually is. No because, in the end, it’s a bit dull.
I really wanted to like this game, but I got bored before I finished it. So it gets three stars for being out there as a concept, but it’d take the most beardy of strategists to extract any lasting fun from this ambitious but fatally flawed game.
