Definately worth a look if you still own an xbox and want a decent sci-fi shooter for it.
User Rating: 7 | Battlestar Galactica XBOX
I bought this game mainly for two reasons. First because, although I'm not a huge fan of the series, I've always loved the space ships seen on the show and have always thought it would be really cool to fly them. I was right. Flying the Colonial vipers in dogfights against the Cylons is as cool as I thought it would be. Secondly I'd been dying to play a decent xbox sci-fi starship shooter. So I thought, "what the hell! I'll give it a shot". I'm glad I did because Battlestar Galactica is not only fun to play, it is ten times better than those crappy star wars space fighters. It also has pretty decent graphics to boot. The game's story is pretty straight forward and linear so dont expect anything to new or outstanding but it's fun overall. You play as young Adama (which is cool in a prequel sort of way) piloting differnt types of colonial Vipers against the ruthless Cylon forces. Ship control is fairly easy to pick up and use but it does take a while to get super comfortable and know when to roll your ship in an effective manner. Once you do though the game becomes very cool to play. Power boosting (this is used a lot during the game and really adds to the manuevering of the ship and its attack patterns) is well...a blast! Visually the game is top notch. I like that you can veiw your ship from 4 different positions and can postion the camera around the ship. Ship detail is very important to me so I'm glad they got this right and didnt skimp on the details. Explosions are good but not incredible like those in Mechassault. Soundwise the game does a great job. I've always liked the theme to Battlestar Galactica so I dont mind it playing while your fighting. The battle chatter is okay but can get a bit repetitive after awhile. Explosions and weapons sound great. Good job overall.
