We Finally Got A Good Battlestar Galactica Game. Its been over eight years since Battle. Star Galactica ended in almost the worst way imaginable, and in that time we havent got a single good official game based on the series. We now have one. Kinda. After a run of over five years, Battlestar Galactica finished over the weekend, and theres aRead more Read. Kinda not because the latest, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, is not a good video game. It is Its kinda because this isnt technically a video game about the 2. Despite sharing the same visual style, uniforms and even style of soundtrack as Sci Fis classic TV show, Deadlock is in fact a prequel based on the first Cylon War, the one thats only hinted at in the main series and which was instead the focus of web series Blood Chrome. Which is why Deadlock plays the way it does. Had this been a strategy game based around just the Galactica, it would have been about politics, sex, drama and toothpaste. Instead, set during a bigger, fairer fight between humanity and the Cylons, Deadlock is able to expand its scale and be a game about building fleets then sending them off to do battle with the enemy. While Deadlock may look like a 3. D space strategy game in the style of Homeworld, its actually turn based. At the beginning of a turn you issue orders and movement commands to every ship under your command. When you hit a big END TURN button, those moves and orders are then carried out during a short window of real time resolution. Like this Its not the first strategy game to do this, of course, but having just come off the back of a solid six months playing Star Wars Armada, it was a comfortable and familiar way for me to be resolving battles involving giant spaceships. Battles in Deadlock are relatively small in scale, which is for the best, because the game asks you to do a lot of fiddly little things every turn for each ship under your command. Youre responsible for speed, direction, firing orders and posture whether offensive or defensive, with further options like setting the ships elevation like Homeworld and Sins, you can adjust the height of your ships in space, firing off a limited supply of projectiles and, best of all, getting to click on LAUNCH VIPERS. The games tactics are based around unit differentiation. Some ships are fast, some are slow, some have fighters, some dont, some are strongest firing to the front, others from broadsides. Both Colonial and Cylon forces are pretty evenly matched, with a lot more variety in the type of ships available to you than you ever saw on TV. The tactical battles are pretty good, if also a bit strange to see in motion because theyre so reliant on movement when the show conditioned us to expect ships to just sit still and pound each other until one blew up. The reason for that is that ships can only be destroyed when you break through their hulls, and to do that you need to completely break through a certain part of its surface to do so. So when a ship starts taking damage from the front, it can turn around and show you its side, and youll be starting all over again. Its been over eight years since BattleStar Galactica ended in almost the worst way imaginable, and in that time we havent got a single good official game. This makes manoeuvring and pursuit a central strategy, and also a lot of fun as ships dance through a battle trying to protect their weaknesses while exploiting their opponents. Battles really come into their own, though, with the use of the license the sound effects like whooshing missiles and the ping of DRADIS are straight from BSG, and the music is an excellent facsimile of Bear Mc. Crearys iconic score from the TV series. If you ever watched the show and wanted to be furrowing your brows just like Adama as everything goes to shit around you, this is as close as you can currently get.
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