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Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

  • Summary: SpaceForce is an RPG space simulation with a heavy focus on ship development, an immersive universe, and freedom of choice. Players have the opportunity to engage in trade, exploration, combat, crafting, questing, and diplomacy in addition to ship development and player activities. Players can choose between 10 professions and more than 14 spacecraft. They can earn money and experience points in order to advance to higher levels. Since A.I. plays a crucial part in SpaceForce, it will create a unique playing experience throughout the game. [DreamCatcher Interactive] Expand
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. A pleasant surprise. [Aug 2007, p.62]
  2. Should have been great, could have been great; but ends up just being a better than average attempt at doing something a little different.
  3. Spaceforce: Rogue Universe isn't revolutionary, but it does feature some interesting and varied gameplay mechanics, even if they are staples of a well-established genre.
  4. Spaceforce can't be recommended despite some interesting ideas.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Negative: 6 out of 13
  1. This game recieves full score from me for several reasons. First, the amazing soundtrack. It alone makes me want to play the game. It really flungs you out in the galaxy. Second, the graphics. It to is magical. Combined with the music it creates the best space-sim feeling in a game I have played. Third reason, the fights. Tough adrenaline pumping action. Forth reason is the exploration. Many systems to explore, many species, many secrets. The game has a few downsides, like the steep learning curve, short story and repetetive missions. However, it's better to have an advanced game than a simple one and the non story-mode gameplay is almost as fun as the story-mode. So the biggest downside is repetetive missions, but that doesn,t matter much when you want to fix medals and explore the galaxy. SpaceForce: Rouge Universe is simply one of the best sci-fi games if you like the feeling of really explore space in a beautiful and fantastic way. Expand
  2. MaxL.
    8
    This is a fun game ONCE you figure out: 1) controls 2) what is going on 3) what all the little "things" mean (arrows, colors, signs, flashing symbols etc) 4) get the patch 1.1 installed, and fix the joystick --- Go to the game forum for a "real" manual since the one that comes with the game is pretty useless... oh yeah, and there's no real tutorials... The game is very much like Elite if you are old enough to remember that, it's a space trading, fighting game that is best enjoyed with a very slow deliberate and relaxed pace in mind. Other than frantic fighting that takes real skill, and preparations (change to correct missiles and guns, the battle is over in seconds... wrong guns, wrong missiles... minutes or hours.) There is so much to discover and learn that if you enjoy this kind of open ended exploration/mining/trading/"x-wing" style combat then you will like this game. The main storyline is pretty average, with absolutely AWFUL acting. Most lines are delivered similar to a really bad high school... no, better make that elementary school play. What is fun for me is just nosing around, experimenting and finding new stuff, plus the visuals are fantastic. (on a dual core, with 4gb of memory and dual sli nvidia 512mb cards- your milage may vary.) Expand
  3. Maciej
    7
    Nothing is better than EVE-ONLINE though somebody is trying as we see, and they are succeding...
  4. JoseDosC
    3
    I like space games, even not great ones. I've played everything from Elite on the 8 bits through the X games, Frontier, Freelancer etc. But I didn't like this, it felt flimsy and cobbled together. As others have said the onboard computer's messages are annoying, the NPC chat is repetitive, and the interface is both hard to understand and doesn't look good. I would say you should buy Dark Star One over this, if you have exhausted all the better options (like X3). Expand

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