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Space Siege (PC DVD)
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- Tactical Combat Action – Outsmart your enemies by setting up ambushes, dodging attacks, ducking behind cover, and using any of the multiple special abilities available to you.
- Multiple Game play Paths – Define your game experience with the decisions you make. Will you remain truly human in the face of insurmountable odds? Or will you enhance your abilities with cybernetic technology to even the score? Customise your character with multiple skills and special abilities that fit your style of play.
- Customisable Robotic Partner – Upgrade HR-V, your robot companion, with armour, weapons and special equipment. Command HR-V to perform offensive and defensive tactical combat manoeuvres or combine your efforts and unleash special attack combos.
- Chilling Sci-Fi Story – Follow a multi-chapter storyline and make key decisions that determine the best means to deal with the ferocious alien menace. Interact with dozens of characters with their own histories and personalities – no more "generic NPCs".
- Online Multiplayer – Up to 4 players can play cooperatively in a separate multiplayer campaign designed specifically for online play. Customize enemy difficulty and toughness to best fit your skill level.
- Futuristic Combat Technology – Access high-tech weaponry and armour in addition to advanced cybernetic upgrades that will offer powerful abilities with both risks and benefits.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Rated : Ages 12 and Over
- Product Dimensions : 13.49 x 1.4 x 19 cm; 120 Grams
- Release date : 22 Aug. 2008
- ASIN : B000VVROMA
- Item model number : 207662
- Best Sellers Rank: 66,842 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)
- 4,406 in PC Games
- 19,921 in PlayStation Legacy Systems
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Product Description
For years, humanity has waged war against a race of ferocious alien invaders - a war that humanity has no chance of winning. As the alien armada unleashes its final attack on Earth, a last-ditch effort is made to evacuate the planet. Five massive colony ships desperately try to flee just as Earth is obliterated.
Only one colony ship survives.
Space Siege places you in the shoes of Seth Walker, a robotics specialist who must preserve the final remnants of the human race. During the course of the game, you are forced to make the most harrowing of choices: will you sacrifice your own humanity to save the human race?
Manufacturer's Description
A game of tactics, combat-heavy action, and decision making, Space Siege is an all-new science fiction themed action-RPG being developed by Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games, the creators of Dungeon Siege I & II and Supreme Commander.
During a massive alien attack on Earth, five colony ships attempt to evacuate as many people as possible. Only one of the five colony ships, the Armstrong, escapes intact before Earth is completely obliterated by the aliens. In Space Siege, you take on the role of Seth Walker, a combat engineer aboard the Armstrong. Your objective is to protect the human race from being annihilated by this unknown alien species. Ultimately, you must make a horrific choice: will you sacrifice your humanity to save the human race?
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Readers, if I could go back in time, I would. And while that slice of chocolate cake would only have provided momentary pleasure, I am now, and forever more, someone dumb enough to purchase Space Siege. It is a mark of shame I will never, ever be able to get rid of.
So, there you have it. Don't waste your 79p on this game.
It is possible to shoot whatever you want - just hold down shift and shoot with the right mouse button too. It does run quite well on my naff system - an athlon64 3500 with a 7800gt and the upgrade paths are enough for replay value. The controls were a bit odd at first but soon got used to them and they werent a problem.
So i think, in my opinion its a fun blast, not too in depth but great in small doses.
1. there's no team to build around you and balance to suit your tactics/whim. In Dungeon Siege 2 you'd have fighters, archers, wizards of different persuasions and various others all fighting together to give you an effective force against any foe, but you decided the mix and if you wanted a squad of all female necromancers then you could. Space Siege has you play one character (with robotic assistance) but doesn't allow you to really customise that character other than down a fighting or tech speciality.
2. there's no inventory to play with. Again, in Dungeon Siege 2 you'd fill half your inventory with really serious weapons and armour you couldn't use yet, hoping that one day you'd be powerful enough to wield it and cause some real damage. Space Siege doesn't even offer an inventory, let alone this kind of option.
3. no pause. Dungeon Siege 2 and Space Siege work in the same way, you click where you want to go or what you want to attack/interact with. However, in Dungeon Siege 2 you can pause the action and still interact with the characters, so whilst in the middle of a huge fight you can move your characters into better positions, take aim at the targets that really matter and plan your tactics. Space Siege doesn't have this option and it really jars when you've been used to it.
4. no big bangs. Space games usually have the advantage of really far-out, hi-tech weaponary which really makes stuff blow up. So far I haven't encountered the show stopping pyrotechnics which could so easily be included.
However, don't think this game is awful, it isn't - as a point and click sci-fi shooter it's quite enjoyable and you can get lost in it easily, I just can't help but feel it could have been so much more and that this was an opportunity missed.
The problems begin if you buy it thinking it's an RPG because it isn't. This is a shooter with RPG-lite upgrade choices.
The original Dungeon Siege was a beautiful looking but eventually dull RPG that didn't know if it was Baldurs Gate or Diablo and fell uncomfortably between the two. Like it or not but Gas Powered haven't made the same mistake this time and Space Siege is definitely an action game. There's no active pause in game to issue orders, like in DS or BG, but there isn't even any of the gear-based inventory management or character classes of the awesome Diablo. There's no XP, with character points getting earned at pre-set points in the game.
I can see what they've decided to do here and while I don't 100% agree with their design choices I can at least see what they were aiming for. They've tried to create an action RPG for the casual player and it almost works. The trouble is it would work so much better as a plain top down shooter which makes the claustrophobic camera angles all the more bizarre. Years after the seamless open areas of Dungeon Siege we're back crawling through small levels, with loading screens, made up primarily of tight corridors. Your viewpoint varies from over the shoulder all the way up to over the shoulder from slightly higher up.
Had they pulled the camera all the way out and just put a fog of war over the unexplored areas it would make for a decent arcade shooter. The Xbox Live Arcade may even have been what inspired this game as there are a ton of shooters showing up there. They claim they haven't ruled out making a console version - perhaps that's where it will end up.
Upgrade choices are fairly meaningless and I don't think there's a lot of replay value. There's going to be little fundamental difference how you play the game regardless of cybernetic enhancements taken or upgrade choices made. Here's a hint - think carefully about upgrading any of your starter firearms, bearing in mind that throughout the game you're going to get new guns on a regular basis. The starter sword on the other hand is gold right from the get go.
I started out by saying I liked it but you might be hard pushed to see why after all that I've just said. Sometimes you just want to disengage your brain and blow up hordes of identical aliens (there's actually more variety in appearance, behaviour and weaknesses of the aliens, particularly as the game progresses, than some of these reviews have suggested).
If you can ignore preconceptions about its supposed RPG roots and accept it as a Sci-Fi shooter with a lot of strategically placed explosive barrels then I think you'll get a blast (sorry..) out of it. It is a short game and it's an easy game but I found it to be a fun game.
another example of sega advertising and packaging a rubbish game to look like a brilliant one, avoid at all costs...unless its say 50p...don't pay anymore than that anyway.
