If you have been gaming for more than 10 years, what a treat !!! And if you haven't entertainment awaits like no other!!
It's open gameplay is so refreshing, as is it's relative simplicity. But simplicity can be deceptive. Because this game has what can only be called an ingenious interface, it let's you handle with ease a deep, engrossing very sophisticated Galaxy teeming with life and stories.
It has the guts to include various genres as sub-games (like RTS, FPS, text adventures and arcade action) and then has the gamers in mind by making most of them optional! Like Elite, this game can take over your life like no other. With 5 races (1 Human and 4 Alien), 5 types of career from Merchant to Pirate and different ship hulls, engines, weapons, shields and "special items", and given that, for example a human weapon may not fit in an Alien's ship hull, you have lots of choices to make as you upgrade. Also, ingeniously, all ship items have weight and size attributes, so you have to decide: A level 6 laser gun with a size of 40 and weight of 20, or a level 5 gatling with a size of 30 but a weight of 30? And I haven't even mentioned the damage ratings of the actual guns!
If you only take one chance on a game this year, make it this one. Space Rangers 2 is so great in so many ways that ripples need to travel out from it to other publishers. It needs to sell in high enough numbers that the media wake up to what gamers truly want. Gameplay. I have not seen this game score less than 70% but have also read three reviews talking about SR2 as game of the year!
Get this game and help make the PC gaming market just that little more sensible