Multi-faceted challenge with great replay value.

User Rating: 9 | Space Rangers 2: Dominators PC
By travellinguist | Review Date:
This game is what they say it is. This game provides hours of challenging play and lots of different ways to play, from simple 2-D, turn-based space combat, to first person shooter planetary missions which can alternatively be played as RTS games. This game also provides multiple game styles and lots of customization options between ship design, race selection and career selection. This also means that the player has a good degree of flexibility in game style because one does not have to play in all formats to win but can pick and choose and still be successful. This game is not for the meek of mind. Beyond the challenge of multiple game styles there are the puzzles and menu-selection missions which provide an intellectual work-out that we are no longer used to in video games. You can go to prison, win a presidential election, become a universal rock star, or design the universe's tastiest pizza. The randomization of the universe after each successful completion allows a person to dive back in and try a different strategy in a wholly different universe.
Another strength of this game is that a player can dive in and play for as little as five minutes or for hours, because one can have a quick satisfying mission or space battle, or the player can delve in and try to complete multiple missions while improving the ship. With anywhere save options, you never feel pressure to meet some sort of checkpoint before you can quit, thus making it easy to go back if you screw-up which happens quite often in this game.
Of course let's be fully honest, as fun as this game is, part of the challenge is deciphering the atrocious translation from Russian which is a whole other level of challenge that the game designers no doubt did not intend to provide to us. This provides a certain amount of comic relief though which can lighten the mood after the 10th consecutive failure to win the "Galactic Checkers" tournament.
Space Rangers 2 is one of those hidden pearls of a game that provides hours of entertainment, far in excess of its price. It might not look too flashy, but this is a gamer's game not a graphic designer's and for that gamers who want to challenge their skills at multiple levels and do a little "Brain Age"-type work will find this game to their liking.

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