![]() ![]() Size of ships plays into the game’s mechanics, coming across as an implementation of the familiar rock, paper, scissors system. There’s a pause button available that will freeze time, giving the player the opportunity to scout out the battlefield or offer a breather if combat isn’t going as intended. Strategy is something that Ancient Space wants to thrive on. This mechanic means you cannot simply build a huge army and then crush the enemy army by overpowering them, instead, Ancient Space wants you to strategize. Agile fighters will take one unit and are classed as small, while the larger ships (large and extra-large) come with more defence and attack power and require two or more units. The size of the ship will determine how many units it takes up. There is a unit limit in play, and it often remains on the small side, with most missions hanging around the 20s. It’s a critical ship that has to survive, as any built units are created in there and then dropped out into space when ready. Ulysses 2 acts as the mobile command centre. ![]() Every mission begins in similar fashion, the game gives the player a small group of starting ships, along with the commanding ship Ulysses 2, and from there you can build more to reinforce your fleet. With no multiplayer of any sorts, you are left with a small skirmish mode (3 levels and isn’t really worth speaking about) and the campaign missions. ![]() It’s also not memorable, with people and places involved mostly forgotten from memory after finishing the game, and while the title is filled with voices from famous actors, these don’t help in creating compelling and interesting characters that stick with you over the course of the game’s campaign. This is a story that can be enjoyed, but it is filled with typical sci-fi clichés and twists that you may find interesting, but most will see them coming due to the game’s unoriginal plot points. The plot is told through introductory cutscenes before missions and during dialogue in game. Nearly 10 years have passed since that disaster, and now the commissioner sees it fit to send in an expedition crew with Ulysses 2 to seek answers to exactly what happened. ![]() The story follows Dr Bruke and her expedition into the Black Zone, a section of space that was involved in an incident with Ulysses 1. You have the likes of Ron Glass from Firefly, Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica, Dina Meyer from Starship Troopers and Dwight Schultz from a couple of Star Trek shows, all who deliver a somewhat decent performance with the material on hand. The game’s characters are voiced by people who are straight from the world of sci-fi. To give you a background on what I like about the genre, I enjoy RTS games that focus on resource gathering and building armies, but don’t often get into the multiplayer aspect of them much, so hearing about CreativeForge Game’s first title, Ancient Space, and how it focuses on bringing a story to a single-player (no multiplayer here) RTS had me intrigued to the point I decided to put everything down and check it out.Īncient Space seems to be reaching directly to the sci-fi crowd and enticing them in with its cast. With so many games being released in this current climate, I find that I have been busy concentrating on so many titles that I haven’t had the chance to see what new games entered the space RTS genre. It’s not that I don’t like the genre, it’s just that I usually end up playing an RTS game set on land, like the classic Command & Conquer games or Total Annihilation. It feels like an ancient time since I last played a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in space. ![]()
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