Разработчик: Little Green Men Games
Описание
After spending almost twenty years trapped in the so-called Stasis rift anomaly, unaware of the passage of time, player reemerges into normal space to find Gemini and indeed everything he knew, had changed beyond recognition.
The Gateway stood as the entry point to the Gemini system, but events that took place two decades ago closed the wormhole and practically sealed the system off of the rest of the universe. The isolation and the appearance of countless anomalies enabled unforeseen technological advancements. Political intrigues, greed and lust for power have shaped the fate of Gemini and it is almost time for reckoning .
Players will freely traverse the rich and filled vastness of the Gemini star system, fight skirmishes with rogue ships, trade commodities, research anomalies, buy new vessels, upgrade their ships with state-of-the-art technology, increase their experience and rank to learn more powerful maneuvers and ultimately use all that in large scale engagements against other fleets of hostile ships. Gemini is a dangerous place with riches waiting to be claimed by the more daring and capable captain.
Key Features:
- Free-roaming space waiting to be explored.
- Vast and interesting Gemini star system, divided into more than fifty large sectors connected via entrances into hyperspace torrents, called T-Gates.
- Numerous space stations, asteroid mining bases, asteroid fields filled with ore to be mined, randomly appearing anomalies, random encounters with hostile pirates or vessels in distress, trade convoys, military patrols, nebulas and much more are all there to create a deep and immersive experience of a living star system.
- Deep and intriguing storyline filled with schemes and twists, drives the player further into the main plot.
- Numerous scripted side missions offer a break from the main plot and give more insight into the setting of Starpoint Gemini.
- More than 300 Freelance missions can be found and taken on stations through Freelance commission.
- Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
- Diverse skill system offers more than 30 upgradeable vessel maneuvers.
- Increasing your rank leads to more options including the ability to purchase larger ship classes.
- Choose from many different perks to gain additional passive bonuses.
- Ships have special built in abilities, which makes even smaller ship classes very useful in fleet battles.
- Upgrade your ships with more than 300 ship systems ranging from weapons and energy shields to power cores and thrusters.
- Enlist additional experienced personnel for your ships to gain skill bonuses.
- Random global events will influence almost all aspects of the game world (like chance for pirate encounters or commodity prices). '
- A comprehensive "Captain's Log" will enable you to keep track of ongoing missions and events.
Free Gladiators DLC Features:
- Four new ship designs add to the already large number of unique vessels
- 50 new special ship systems that can only be awarded for victories in Gladiators
- Outer Horizon, a new sector of Gemini where the special tournament is held
- Series of difficult combat situations like Free-for-all and Team fights
- Completely free-of-charge as a big thank you to everyone who supported us in developing and improving Starpoint Gemini
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *:Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Processor:2.0 GHz Single core
- Memory:768 MB RAM
- Graphics:DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 128MB RAM, Shader 3.0 or better
- DirectX®:dx90c
- Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible sound Card
Отзывы пользователей
This version of the game doesn't work anymore.
It doesn't support ram > 4GB. There's an unofficial patch out there but that comes with risks and devs are not bothering to do that update themselves and haven't communicated in years.
The gameplay may be fine but there's no reason to get this version. The Devs say they ported all the campaign to the new game, Gemini 2, so there is 0 reason to buy this as it won't even work and you can play it through the other one.
Tutorial take 1
"Hey I have locked your control while you have to listen to my entirely out of context diatribe which I call tutorial"
Some minutes of bla bla
"Click Close"
I click "Close". nothing happens. Ok thats the tutorial? Less suffering for me
I start pushing random buttons, ship starts moving.
"you were not allowed to move, tutorial failed"
..... ok.... thats one way to handle it
Tutorial take 2
By exhausting all clickable options in exactly the correct sequence I get the boring diatribe to continue.
"Fly to the station"
ok, I can do that. The station looks weird, somehow ghostly. Took me some time to realize that you can see the shadows of objects through other objects.
I don't even know if the campaign is playable. I couldn't take the "tutorial"
Sadly I bought this game as part of a bundle a while ago, after playing the pretty good starpoint gemini: warlords, but the issue at hand is, this game does not work for windows 10. Other than the tutorial, trying to start a game will result in a crash to desktop.
Having said that, from the 30 minutes I was able to experience this, the tutorial is horrendous. The instructor, that uses the exact same portrait as the default character (which is the only one available)(i.e: not great for immersion from the get-go) speaks in a barely audible russian-like voice and bombards you with information about the interface way before you need to use it. You have no way to check what he previously said either so you might have to go by trial and error after the information barrage ends and you need to actually do stuff.
This game feels extremely dated. Again, from the 30 minutes I could appreciate it, I had a huge rejection to the tutorial and the way it was presented. The character creation seems like it was done on MS paint! I had no problem getting into old games with shoddy graphics and clunky interfaces, but this was ridiculous. They might as well used a static portrait picture and leave it at that. It would have been much better.
I bought this just in order to get to know the story. Since it doesn't work on windows 10, now I'm stuck with this unuseable piece of software, that even if I wanted to push from my initial aversion and see what it has to offer, I can't.
Steam should not push games that don't run on the de-facto operative system.
Works with windows 10. Graphics are a bit dated, even with filters. The most annoying and game-breaking thing for me was that the free camera will get stuck every now and then so that I had to restart from load to unlock it. Story and dialogues voice acting are bad, borderline horrible. Sounds are O.K. Controls are a bit clunky and awkward. The gameplay is slow and grindy. Overall, it's a so, so game.
I will recommend it, just because it has so many bad reviews which do not do it just as it's the first game by this developer (and it's not all that bad) as well only if you want to learn Gemini story and support the devs. otherwise, stay away.
I'm enjoying the game, I purchased this as a package with the sequel anticipating some good fun. I like the upgrades - crew - style of the game. Looking forward to the weekends of playing.
Starpoint gemini is currently broken, you can't get past the tutorial which means this review has no point besides mentioning the game doesn't work.
?/10 Looks intresting concept tho
Extremely buggy on Windows 10; crashes every 30 minutes even when run in compatibility mode. Even when it doesn't crash, it's full of bugs like gates or other stuff ceasing to work.
Then there's the chat system, where you're say escorting a ship on a main story mission; you hail them on comms and ask what they're doing there. The answer is something random and entirely unrelated to the mission you're on.
Controls are fairly simple and sensical conceptually, but poorly implemented, making them extremely annoying to use. Repair micromanagement is a chore. There are plenty of missing quality of life features that should have been obvious like
- skipping auto-dock/undock/t-gate sequences (which are horribly long)
- visible prices and quantity of goods for sale in the products list; the whole trading UI is trash really
- time compression
- the game remembering scan results for asteroids so when you go into an asteroid field you don't have to remember which asteroids you scanned and which you didn't out of the huge pile of similar looking rocks.
- did I mention the chat system? It's horrible and you can't tell chat history apart from your current chat options.
Overall this feels like an idea that had promise but was poorly implemented. Very poorly.
This game is unplayable. You can play the tutorial but as soon as you try to leave the tutorial area it crashes. Furthermore if you want to skip the tutorial and start a new game without it.... it crashes. No win.
**WARNING** Do not purchase this if you are running WIN 10, this game will not run the main campaign under any conditions. I was able to run the tutorial itself, but this was unfortunately about it. I've contacted support about this issue, and when/if I get a response I will update this review.
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Update:
Devs stated that the game is old and only supports Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7.
Here is the issue:
Windows XP is not any longer supported by Microsoft and neither is Vista since April of this year:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support
Windows 7 Mainstream Support ended in 2015, and security updates run until 2020, and although I am certain it's popular, I'm sure most are starting to 'jump ship'.
This leaves this Steam game with very few cumbersome options as to how to actually get it to run, virtual machine running in your preferred OS, or run it in an older dedicated installation of Windows.
Not saying the game isn't good, I think it's good as long as you can get it to run. However, considering the fact that it is getting fairly cumbersome for users to actually run it, in addition to the fact that it has no ongoing support; perhaps it may be time for this product to be gracefully pulled from Steam.
Due to these issues, this game is certainly not worth it at $13.99, and even if anyone is considering purchasing it, they should only consider it on an extreme discounted sale (90% or better).
I certainly understand the fact you are a small dev team, and are focusing on other projects at this point (love the other games you put out and all seem to work well), just wanted to provide some general feedback on this to anyone looking to purchase this game.
If the intent is to keep the game up for sale, I would however recommend trying to at least rebuild the source on a newer system and just provide a basic patch.
EDIT:
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Post WIN 10 patch release - I was still running into issues loading this game, but I was able to bypass the issue:
Here is what you can do to see if the issue is the same for you.
I installed it on two systems (one running RADEON and another NVIDIA) and I actually got it to work on both by disabling the Nvidia and radeon built-in overlays, I'm guessing there is just something incompatible with the overlays and this stops the game.
If you are running these you can disable these by going through your GFORCE settings (cog wheel) and hit the slider to disable and try the game again it should work (screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KuR1510).
If you are running RADEON, use their software to disable it - go to
Video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhQWK1-Ovk
Most space sim fans will be turned off by the fact that combat and flight is only 2d movement. Aside from that it is not a bad space game. Starpoint Gemini 2 is vastly better. My advice is buy Starpoint Gemini 2 and play the original campaign in the starpoint 2 game engine,
"Play through the 30 storyline missions of the original Starpoint Gemini, re-envisioned as free DLC for Starpoint Gemini 2!"
I wanted to like this game. I put over 70 hours into it. What I liked about it was the simplified controls - WSAD. The game was easy to get into. Despite the Russian voice acting, there was a storyline of sorts.
What hooked me initially was the desire to upgrade my ship, weaponry, shields, equipment and captain skills. The combat system is essentially about shield management and trying to manoeuvre your ship to the enemies weakest point (typically rear) whilst delivering maximum damage. Many times I found myself spinning my ship so I could round-robin fire my weapons to suit their firing arc. Play the game and you will understand what I mean.
There are missions to do and what is akin to boss fights. But it all gets a bit monotonous. Mining is boring. The missions are repetitive. Travelling to different sectors is tedious, having to navigate to the jump points. The T-drive makes it a little easier, but some missions require jumps of 10 sectors or more, which is a chore.
Having maxed out my ship, crew and talents, I kept playing the game, hoping for a grand finale. It was a let down.
I persisted with this game and I should not have. Oh it also crashes regularly, so save often.
I recommend it but realize this is with hesitation. The bugs, oh the bugs. There are many, some are potentially game breaking (read: save often and on multiple files), and some required frequent restarting the game for me (an audio glitch that would grow until it is unbareable). The game completely lacks polish and it uses frowned upon mechanics to extend gameplay (e.g. requirement to level up 1-3 levels to progress the plot even though levels aren't even really useful beyond level 15 and having to occassionally travel through a dozen sectors to get to where you need to be). So, why do I recommend it? Because despite those bugs, I thought it was fun. The combat was challenging. Hunting for parts to upgrade the ship was entertaining and rewarding. The plot, despite poor voice overs and bad grammar, was interesting enough to keep me playing. The game is an exercise in patience so be mindful of that if you're considering buying it.
The game logged over 30 hours to beat it on "Captain" (normal) difficult. Steam logged over 41 hours.
I'm torn.
I'm NOT recommending thisa game, despite my love for its mechanic, its tactics and its interactivity; not because it's dated, not because there's a few bugs here and there and not because of the awful dialogue in the story mode - because ultimately, they actually kind of endear me to the title. It's because of the lack of certain features.
Cross Freelancer with Star Trek Legacy and you've pretty much got the general premise, barring the storyline - which, in and of itself, isn't ridiculous... it's just the dialogue that's awful.
So what's missing that's so damned important if I'm going to be so forgiving in other realms of the game?
The trading system. The core of being a merhant. THis game invites you to scan and mine, scan and board, scavenge from derelicts, even pick up cargo and flog it elsewhere... BUT where?
In games like Freelancer (being the best and closest example to this game), but also in the likes of the X series or Elite, Starpoint Gemini boasts the opportunity to be a merchant and make so money via filling your cargo hold and getting that stuff to someone who might actually pay for it... but you have absolutely no way of knowing WHERE that might be - there's no tickerline to tell you that System A has deal on XYZ, while System B is desperate for XYZ and will pay +50% of the going rate.
If you examine an item in the commodities, and equipment but there's no problem with the systems mechanic at all, you can learn the Average Price of that commodity (assumably in relation to all the ports in the game) and then when you go to purchase it then, and only then, can you determine it's actual price in the outpost you're in at the time.
This makes for some really slow commodity training and then flying about without a clue who will pay more for your goods is infuriating: eg.:
Picked up Holoparts and Medical Supplies from a gaff in Kingsway (I think) at 20 to 30 over the average market price (which isn't actually that bad by all accounts) because it'd been the lowest price I'd seen for a wee bit. Then went hunting through the next 7 systems trying to find someone who would buy them for more - scouring every station, every hole, every system in the hopes of selling at a profit.
Now, maybe I could see if there's a wiki, but why should I? Yeah, I would consider the sandbox mode over the story mode for further play (due to the significant difficulty of having a new ship in time to run head long, within the story, in to a sortie of ships that far outclass my own and all the other Bots just fold and die a bit too quickly to be useful) and that might give me enoigh time to figure out trade lanes for myself, but I could get that same action from Freelancer or the X series, heck even EVE Online if I was so inclined.
I want to like this game, I do likle this game, I just can't recommend it because of some potentially game-breaking features that NEEDED to be in the game.
Oh, and beware the Tutorial. It is magnificently literal - you WILL LEARN one step at a time and NO faster!
Plus, if you still fancy a bash at this game, which, for it's age is still a bit on the awesome grrovy side in my humble opinion, I'd STRONGLY consider the following:
Specialise in no more than 5 skills and be careful which officers you hire...
Remap your controls! No seriously, rethink how to make this game work through re-mapping; personally, I managed to really ramp up my effectiveness by employing an almost WoW like fasy-key logic - transferring power, burst fire, distress call, docking, scans, boarding etc. all within one row of keys and suddenly I'm a devastating force of nature... in Sandbox mode... :D
This could be the game for you, but if it is, you're going to have a few moments where you want to ask the developper why they missed a couple of bits out, but then you might just love it because of what was essentially a lovely build based on a hither-to under-exploited game genre, but then Freelancer is a pretty tough game to top, am I right? ;)
A space sandbox with a strong Elite/Freelancer feel. A big open world, load of different ships, weapons, factions, tactics - everything that makes a good space sandbox is included. Very simple to learn and play. Decent consistent plot. Some bugs, none are game-breaking, most are easily circumvented. Voice acting is a bit lame.
Overall - very nice game for the money. Expect 20-50 hours of gameplay before you finish the plot line/get bored of playing. Good if you want to try out the genre without much effort. And buy the second game. It is better in every way.
Things to consider before you buy
- it's a "2,5d" game, with very basic physics.
- You do not pilot a small single-seat ship, you command a large vessel with gun turrets and crew.
- Some RPG elements are present.
Starpoint Gemini is a very good game in many ways. The missions are great and test your skills almost to a point of frustration (Save often). After each mission you are given free play untill you reach a certain level at which time the next mission begins, this free play time is to make money and upgrade your ship, weapons and shields, use it to your advantage and the missions are a little easier, squander them or rush to advance makes life tough.
Downsides are the game is based on an unrealistic 2 planes (no up or down) and the frequent crashes when jumping to new systems (game autosaves at each jumpgate so when it crashes you restart at the gate you crashed at). There are other little downsides in the game, like slow docking, random attacks that you can't win (again, save often) and systems that don't load right in the missions (not often) that makes you reload to continue.
Although this game is a little weak on realistic space flight it is a very engaging game that I find myself playing for hours on end and seldom tire of. It has it's quirks as any game does and if you ever played a game called Freelancer this game would be a distant second, but I love to play it and would recommend it to anyone who loves open universe space epics. Great missions and storyline mixed with great free play make this one a must have.
I'd like to think people would come to my defense if someone said something untrue or false about me and after reading so many negative reviews and scores on this game, I wanted to, as a fan of the space sim genre and a gamer, come to the defense of this game but after 8 or so hours.......let me explain....
I really wanted to give this game a chance and I did try despite it's....flaws, however minor or major, which I will explain because I can't stand criticism without a reason.
I was having fun, once I learnt the ropes, which buttons do what, how missions work, how I make money, a very basic frame that works. There are missions from various space stations, you can mine rocks to sell the ore to stations, buy commodities low and sell high. Upgrade your ship or buy a completely new and more powerfull ship with better upgrade slots, hire officers for your ship wich give you certain abilities and basically do whatever the heck you like in an open world sandbox space sim.
The ideas themselves work, it's what you'd expect to find in this type of game.
Right, so where did I find it went wrong?
Generally the first thing a gamer notices is the graphics but that's only the most obvious thing and it doesn't make a game. With SPG it's in your face, very noticable that for a 2011/12 game, you'd expect a little more bells and whistles.
I have to say the thing I found most grating was the voice acting, I'm not sure if they were genuine accents or acting but in all honesty I HAD to read the subtitles because I couldn't understand a thing the actors were saying, let alone differentiate one from another.
The controll of the ship was jumpy, if you use the keyboard for turning there is a massive jump in direction, too sensitive. And if you use the mouse for control, particularly durning combat, it feels janky. Using the mouse you need to mouselook as well as turn to the direction of the enemy ship...very difficult. I found it a lot easier to use the mouse for looking and selecting during combat and the keyboard for turning.
BUT, for some reason the worst thing I encountered amongst a list of others, was the fact that you have so many skills that you could easily use and are quite helpfull...but only one action bar with 5 slots........I tried to reason with myself: " I don't need to use 10 or more skills do I?" But simply put, if anyone at all found more than 5 skills usefull, they have every right to damn well use them and be able to equip them on the quickbar. In actual fact, I found myself using active pause so I could swap out the 10 other skills I wanted to use....to much frustration!!!!
Games are supposed to be fun! And I did find this enjoyable but the negatives outweighed the posatives for me, the quickbar thing was for me the gamebreaker, the point where the enjoyment turned into the frustration. I did overlook the graphics, voice acting and overcame the quirkiness of the controll methods initially but if I can't use 6+ abilities on the fly or at will by clicking an icon on that hotbar then it's a game I'm unable to play at it's full potential.
One last word. Unfortunately also, there is very little on the web about SPG, no lets play vids no walkthroughs and not much or nothing on tactics or hints on how to play. I was hoping to go through the story of the game before I played SPG 2, which incedentally has so much more info and hype around it that it's predecessor and for good reason.
So at this stage, I can't recommend SPG.
I really can't recommend Starpoint Gemini. This was LGM Games' first project, and I'm afraid it shows. I can see what they were going for, but it just doesn't come together in a satisfying way. Presentation-wise, the game manages to look dated (ship models) and beautiful (nebulas and planet vistas) at the same time. I can live with that. I could't live with the voice acting though, which I'm sure must be done by the dev team, or someone they kidnapped off the street. Fortunately for the sake of your sanity you can turn this off. More worrying though is the UI, which is confused, overly complicated, and a royal pain in the ass. Even basics such as turning your ship aren't handled well: you can either left click to turn the ship towards the point you clicked, which is useless for anything to the side or behind you, or you can hit the A and D keys which turn the ship in what seem like 30 degree increments per press, with multiple presses resulting in prolonged spinning until the key presses wear off. It's manageable once you get used to it, but it's painful and makes combat a drag. That's a pity because the combat engine is fun at first, it's nicely tactical and lasers sizzle and whump appropriately, but I found it soon became frustrating due mainly to the very high early difficulty; your ship only has a narrow firing arc, everything else it seems can out-turn you, so lining up to take a shot means your front shields are quickly toasted with you being barbequed shortly afterwards.
The other problem is that the living universe is merciless, and high level rogue (pirate) ships crash your nice low-level party with frustrating regularity. I had to replay the first mission about four times because I kept getting jumped by high level pirates that laid waste to everyone including my puny level 1 ship. It's a pity the quicksave button doesn't work, because you have to save a lot... except it doesn't actually let you save during the prolonged and tedious dialogs and during mission events. Eventually you start to get a handle on things, and there were moments such as the first time I flew inside a nebula that the game almost starts to sing, but then it's gone. Side-missions from stations largely involve flying to a point and clicking a couple of icons, or flying to a rogue ship and getting blasted within seconds. After a few hours I realised that I just wasn't having any fun because I'd played this game before in much better forms. However, the silver lining is Starpoint Gemini 2, which is apparently so massively better as to be a completely different game. I'd start there if I were you.
Don't be turned off so quickly by all of the other bad reviews – I would say that some of these people are stuck on "beauty is skin deep." I can agree with the other reviewers in some aspects; if you have big standards for shiny polish on games, you might want to avoid this one. The graphics are dated, the controls take some getting used to (I keep having to look at the configuration to figure out what I pressed by accident, even after 15 hours). There are bugs and CTD's. You can’t dock with T-gates sometimes or steer. The camera gets stuck at odd angles on occasion and you have to change sectors to fix it. The music selection leaves a bit to be desired. The radio chatter is repeatable.
One guy complained the tutorial was too long! I found it was just right for the complexity of the game and it got the basics down quite quickly. You just have to wait patiently for them to read all the text on the screen out (there is no “click to skip”). As for graphics, the sector backdrops are a bit washed out for my liking, I love the colorful and crisp sector graphics in X3. The music, though quite good, has a very limited number of tracks and is quite repeatable.
HOWEVER, this game has engaged me happily for over 20 hours now, and I’m only halfway through the campaign with very little extra exploration. The campaign can be challenging at some times, but I found it was a bit too easy to make money and afford a dreadnaught. It seems you need to do this in order to make good progress in the campaign. At one stage in the campaign you lose your ship, however you keep all of your equipment and cash. No problem, at that time I had enough to buy three new dreadnaughts. So yes, the campaign is a bit out of balance sometimes.
In the campaign, there is a lot of "fly to this sector, blow up this ship, then fly to that sector." But it's all wrapped up in a package that keeps it enjoyable, as you search for derelict ships to loot, Rogue containers to crack open and steal goodies from, and fight off pirates that randomly attack you. You can speed up monotonous travel by getting a T-Drive, but then you miss out a lot of the sightseeing opportunities along the way, and also chances to dock at stations to find better equipment than what you already have.
If you are excited by the prospect of boarding and capturing ships, this game does it nicely! If you love to customize ship equipment (weapon slots, shield slots, engine slots), you'll enjoy this game. If you want to play with over 50 different ships, each having different special abilities, you'll enjoy this game. If you like RPG-style characters, where you can focus on specific weapon types (beam vs. plasma) and improve your skills as you level up, you'll enjoy this game. You can even hire different officers, each which will add to your perks or boost one or more of your ship stats. The game gives you the possibility to line up your stats and perks to make an ultra-powerful beam-equipped ship destroys everything easily, until you hit an enemy who has shields and equipment specifically set up to resist beam weapons. Then you’re screwed. What fun!!!
The game has many aspects familiar to Freelancer - faction names and how they're handled, station names, station designs, radio chatter, jump gates. It also shares common control mechanisms with Eve Online, including 2D controls, ship configurations and character skill leveling. I wouldn't call it a "rip off" of any other game; rather it combines many of the great elements from other games, while setting up a solid new story and universe to enjoy them in. It's all tied together quite well in an engaging way, and I am continuously reminded of fond times I had playing Freelancer and Eve in years past.
I have been looking awhile now for a good new space game to enjoy. After playing SG1, I am even more excited now for the release of SG2. Well done, Little Green Men!
Got this game with the early access of the second one and i have to say I cant believe i missed this one! ok the voice acting is pretty basic and its a bit old now but if you want a game where you can have epic battles like sins well this is it! I love it because its different! ive played many space sims but this one is a gem! best way to put this game is a cross between star trek and sins.
Remember to save up a ton of money - or sell your ship - before you're called in to do a certain space station defense story mission. Otherwise, you'll end up destroying all the enemies just because you can -> Proceed to complete the mission -> then watch as your ship gets blown up because there were "too many enemies" and someone had to stay behind as bait for the evacuation.
Huh? Didn't you blow them all up?
On the very next mission, you end up in a weaponless shuttle with no afterburners and paper-thin shields. Your mission? Infiltrate a heavily guarded military compound deep in the heart of enemy territory. Wow, lo and behold, the alarm trips while you're right in the middle and you have to escape.
Not...happening. In a fit a frustration, on the 5th restart or so, I broke story and used the money I had left to purchase a ship with weapons, loaded it with the best gizmos for its class (jump drive and afterburners not optional), and proceeded to barely survive that mission.
This game has that and more plot holes. Mainly, whoever had designed the game continually assumes you're still piloting that dinky starting freighter instead of working your ass off to buy a class 10 dreadnought with the latest upgrades.
That wasn't all that pissed me off, this game took a page from Freelancer and added radio chatter. However, if you listen closely to the radio chatter, it ends up being one of three things. Something about law enforcement are all pigs. Some guy being interdicted and scanned. And something else. Wow, I'm happy that I'm finally forgetting what they were saying. After listening to the inane chatter for the several hours that I played the game, you'd think it'd have sunk in more. Ah, but wait till you get into battle. Then you're treated to a hostile cacophony and some small schmuck in the background threatening to kill you. No, seriously. It's like you're in a noisy nightclub and there's some guy with the band singing an accompaniment of death threats at odd times.
And don't even get me started on getting killed at the very beginning because my level 1 ship can't stand up to a level 20 pirate. Actually, I thought that was interesting. Never mind.
Still, I think the game has far too many stupid issues to be recommendable.
For the patient player willing to spend the time to work through the lengthy hour-long tutorial, Starpoint Gemini delivers a rich, polished space exploration freelancer experience. The game supports widescreen resolutions, the Steam Overlay, and is complimented by a relaxing musical score. Unfortunately, the graphics are inferior to other space titles such as X3, and the Russian accented narration is nearly unintelligible at points, this game is a solid edition to the genre. If you enjoy games like X3 or EVE online, you will probably find much to like in Starpoint Gemini.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Little Green Men Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 46 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 28% положительных (88) |