The Jupiter incident? More like the "jupiter has nothing to do with this" incident......

User Rating: 7.8 | Nexus: The Jupiter Incident PC
I've played a lot of space sims. I played some good ones and not a whole lot of bad ones. I'm not really picky when its up to space sims, or games in general. Though I tried, Nexus is just not exactly what I was looking for.
My first impression of the game was... oh wow this looks really neat, im gonna enjoy this... so I got excited and got more and more into the game. I have to say the first few hours were really glorious. Pretty deep storyline, awesome graphics, mysterious exploring, an epic battle here and there.... but then? It got extremly ripetitive and VERY random.... You start out in the Solar system which is becoming more and more populated by humans apparently but no one really ventures outside its boundaries because we simply don't have the means to do that yet. Ok thats pheasable and pretty cool in my opinion. But then why am I fighting on Beta Praxis and Omega Prime against a WHOLE, and i repeat, a WHOLE bunch of different aliens that abruptly joined the storyline? What exactly are we fighting them again? How did I get this ship exactly?
It's like the game is lacking a linear story. Random stuff happens and you are always in the middle of it for no reason. The game suffers from this because it started out so fun at the beginning that it lost it's appeal. It got so repetitive and boring.
You also have to redo your ship configurations every time you load your game since it apparently loves you to have the crappy guns on your vessel every time. That also takes a long time since you'll have to configure 3 or more ships at a time.
Anyway, I would recommend the game if you are looking for some quick and easy fun. Maybe the game would have been better if there was a quick battle option since there really is no connection between actual gameplay. Oh well. Scratch one.