Well one thing that I can say is that this game definitely has potential to have a 4 or even 5 star rating. The reason for the 3 star however is the fact that this game at the moment plays more like a turn-based strategy game that happens to be in real time. My complaint is that the ships turn painfully slow and in the time that it takes your ship to turn around to face whatever is shooting it, the ship has already sustained a massive amount of damage. The problem is that the ships seem too "floaty" which slows down the gameplay quite a bit. The upside is that this game has the potential to be very,very good. The story is actually quite good and I didn't feel like it was just there for background noise to the game. The other thing about this game that is good is the variety of ships and the ability to use deflector shields (which gives the game an added element of strategy). The only thing as of right now that kills this game for me is the movement of the ships, it just takes too long to face your ship(s) and to fire upon the enemy. I honestly felt like I was playing a turn-based (which is fine...if it is a turn based) but the fact of the matter is it is a RTS and real time strategy is supposed to be fast and action packed (not saying that there wasn't a lot of action, because there was and good action at that, just that the action was too slow for an RTS). All in all I will wait to reserve my final opinion of this game until it is fully completed (the profile says still in development). Hopefully (I really do, actually want this game to get better because truth to tell I still enjoyed it quite a bit) the kinks will be worked out soon and this will stand as one of the best RTS games I have played (just please for the love of god create an auto-face feature so the ship doesn't constantly have to be faced in the direction of the enemies and speed up the ship's rate of speed).

Learning Curve: Takes a second

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