![]() Unfortunately though, the gorgeous environments and wonderful ship designs come at a price. Needless to say, Ancient Space is one of the best looking space-based games I have seen outside of the AAA mega productions of Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen. You will also find that asteroid debris, or simply the shattered remains of an old ship provide the perfect cover as you are struggling to escort your mark to its destinations. Foggy space dust obscures your view as you move through various parts in some near-orbit levels and which makes the perfect environment for your stealth runs. Beautiful asteroid-based colonies are seen, in some cases even flown through as you hunt down enemy ships. While space is far more empty than it is populated, the corner of the universe where Ancient Space takes place is a haven for asteroids and various gas planets and nebulae which leaves a ton of creative license on CreativeForge's hands. The real winner though is in the environment. ![]() Some of the larger ships, carriers, have docking bays and landing areas that are animated and functional as your smaller units dock are released after being built the level of detail in your space stations is quite stunning, with small walkways able to be seen. When you get close to some of the different bombers or frigates, the ship actually looks like something that could, and would be used in future space combat. Giving you the ability to upgrade your fleet as you continue take on missions such as stealth or escort missions, gather reasons to increase your fleet size and research upgrades, Ancient Space is working to be both something new and old, the question is though, does it succeed?Īncient Space is an attractive game ship designs are not only futuristic but they are realistic as well. Enter Ancient Space by CreativeForge Games and Paradox Interactive looking to bring some focus back on the realtime strategy genre, Ancient Space is looking to not only bring back some of the love for the realtime genre, but to change it up a little bit as well. While all of this exposure on the flexibility of space in video games is great, the realtime strategy genre has yet to see any true releases in this new-found boom of space-based games. Space is no longer the final frontier as developers are constantly coming up with new ways to bring fantastic adventures to the fans of the genre as evidenced in No Man's Sky. Relic truly got something right with Homeworld really set the bar high for space-based realtime strategy games in gameplay, graphics, storytelling and balance, you will not find another title quite like Homeworld.Įnter 2014 and the space-based gaming genre has seen an explosion of games from massive productions like Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous to less-known titles like Distant Worlds: Universe, X: Rebirth, and the Strike Suit titles. Some ten years later there has yet to be a space-based RTS game like Homeworld and Homeworld 2, though Sins of a Solar Empire comes very close (though it is more of a 4X-RTS hybrid, which is excellent and totally okay) it was not quite the level of Homeworld. I was immediately hooked and eagerly awaited the sequel which came in 2003 and after playing it heavily for nearly a year, the title disappeared in the shadow of 2004's World of Warcraft (as so many great titles did). ![]() Pirates and other evil-doers would jump in-system and start skirmishing with my patrol ships which would then escalate into an all out war between two massive fleets. My mothership, tucked away in some dusty nebula could send out ships to salvage from asteroids while roving bands of bombers, fighters, frigates and corvettes would protect my resource gathers operations. A space-based realtime strategy game that allowed me to control a fleet of wicked looking space craft through the truly 3-dimensional "space" of deep space.
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