What with all the fuss over global warming, it wasn't long before the world's greatest thinkers got their teeth sunk into our impending doom.
First Kevin Costner with Waterworld, then Al Gore with his sagely wagged finger during a two-hour PowerPoint presentation, and now SunAge: a bleak view of the future shoehorned into a decrepit seven year-old RTS, which lets you take control of one of three factions: mutants, humans and robots.
The former two are fighting for superiority on a radiation-ravaged Earth. Then, in a classic moment of human idiocy, the humans discover a gateway to a new planet that is just right for continuing the race - but when they jump through, it's full of angry robots. No!
The game itself is a mess of mindless RTS garbage. The graphics are a bland, sub-Red Alert 2 affair, but the gameplay falls further into the depths of mediocrity. The UI is clunky, travelling into the past with some kind of horrible mishmash of Total Annihilation and the original Command & Conquer.
Controlling your army is worse still, forcing you to select only a few troops at a time, moving them in separate groups. The icing on the cake is the abomination of AI that requires your troops to be in range to attack - don't try and click on an enemy to have your troops move into range - it won't happen.
SunAge is a terrible RTS, lacking definition, originality, or fun, wrapped in a half-arsed story. Don't even think about it.
I strongly disagree with the score, i find that the game is refreshing and fun, it keeps you on your toes and the environment is rich and interesting.
Its dead easy to understand, the gameplay is rich and the campaign is well thought off and keeps you hooked. Although the general guy has a strange obsession with sniper mode! lol
If your looking something with a little more soul and off the main stream rts then i highly suggest you give this a go. And ignore the main stream reviewer, its all about big budgets and big labels nowadays with narrow minded views.
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