Comments on: Gratuitous Space Battles Review

By: Paolo Bertiglia

Paolo Bertiglia — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:01:01 +0000

While I have to agree with Nick… it is still a fun couple of days. not sure if it is 10$ worth but I did not feel rip off.

And doing it again after a few months adds a a couple of days more to the game play.

Did not liked the strategic expansion for now, hope it will be update/beefed up.

By: richtaur

richtaur — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:09:25 +0000

I’m not really into sci-fi games so much these days but I’ve been meaning to check this out just because I keep hearing about it. Cliffski has done a great job marketing it.

By: Joe Zak

Joe Zak — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:27:59 +0000

I have to disagree with the above post. I bought this game last weekend on the Steam sale and I am blown away. Yes if you play the campaign on normal mode, a homogeneous fleet can beat it. That same fleet will fare more poorly against hard, and will be turned into space dust by the expert level missions.

The “Multi-Player” aspect is quite different, but extremely challenging. One can create a fleet and post it for others to play against, or download and fight against the fleets other players have posted. The result of each Challenge is recorded, so you can see how many times a posted fleet has won or lost.

There is an enormous amount of detail, and just about the right amount of complexity to be enjoyable. Not to mention the great graphics and sound. All in all, GSB is a great buy for your money. If you think your fleet is good, send a challenge to GhengisRexx.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:09:34 +0000

I played a fair bit of GSB, I found it totally lacking depth, complexity and difficulty while only providing about 3 hours of game play. In that time I was able to find a single optimal design to create a homogeneous fleet which could complete all missions well under the honor cap, and I was able to within just a few missions buy everything that could be bought. I quickly realized what I wanted was something of the complexity and depth of the combat in SEV (less the archaic UI), and that this was not it.

The game is fun for a few hours, but hardly worth more than $10, GSB is little more than a piece of candy compared to the hearty meals of 4X games.

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