Ancient Frontier

It is a very good Game.

...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Несложный сюжет, несложная игровая механика, несложная графика Но всё сделано очень удобно, ненапряжно Приятное превозмогание численно превосходящего противника Бластеры опасно пуляют на фоне мерцающих звёзд, взрывы минных полей порождают весёлые фейерверки, форсированные двигатели звёздных крейсеров тяжело гудят на перелётах Девять фотонных торпед из десяти

ОБЗОР -https://youtu.be/8q6mlsCr5QQ Графика слабая, боевка ужасна камеру приблизить нельзя, управление пошаговое, я в бесплатных космических стратегиях боевку бранил но тут она еще хуже сами можете посмотреть, крайне не рекомендую эту хренотень за 449 рублей так как бесплатные аналоги на андроид и то в разы лучше, и да там тоже есть алгрейды кораблей и даже больше

The game has excellent bones, looks good, and has good gameplay. Just one weird glaring issue, the initiative system. somehow the initiative system makes it where units can often double turns and several units can attack multiple times. in several missions I have had units get completely destroyed from full health and shields after engaging one enemy unit because my unit moves in and attacks, then the enemy unit attacks then gets to activate before my unit in the next turn to destroy it.

[h3]Not exactly bad - but unfortunately not good, either.[/h3] Really nice graphics. You can zoom in quite close to the detailed ship models and the special effects are charming. I especially like the rail gun for how simple and still good its animation looks - epic even, if you understand its RL physics. Also, they published [b][u]free DLC[/u][/b] (that was actually good) several months after launch which in itself is really awesome, if you compare it to how 99% of greedy developers/publishers nowadays treat their player base. Now, with the only redeeming factors out of the way let's get on with the actual review: Ancient Frontier isn't a bad game per se - it's just sooooo mediocre that I in best faith and conscience can't give it a positive rating. Ancient Frontier commits the capital sin of being [u]completely and utterly boring and underwhelming[/u]. If it were bad, I at least could passionately hate it; instead it's just [u]disappointing[/u]. Don't get me wrong: There are definitely worse games, but there are also so many better games that deserve a better rating than Ancient Frontier. Sorry, Fair Weather Studios, but my hands are tied... The boringness begins with the most boring tutorial that I ever had to sit through: It's fine content-wise i.e. it's detailed and explains everything important... but it's a like a godd[b][/b]amn voiced manual read out by a lady that may or may not be an AI text-to-speech program, judging by the way she sounds. I don't know how advanced those programs were back in 2017 and I honestly don't care enough to check. It sounds awful and annoying. Anyway, it's a mindnumbingly boring tutorial and even Lady Reader herself describes her performance as "droning on" near the end - that's all you need to know. The gameplay isn't redeeming, either. It's functional, but it's just so boring... The shop page says that Ancient Frontier is a strategy game... but so are Checkers or Ninepenny. Can you. Contain. Your. Excitement?... The whole "strategy" is just a matter of moving your ship in range and hoping that it hits. The closer you are, the more likely it hits... that's the whole strategy. There's a cover system, but not only can everyone move and shoot through cover, no, any ship with at least 2 move points (i.e. basically every ship except destroyer class capital ships) can move around your cover, completely ignore it while blasting you with all its attacks, and then move back... which is bu[b][/b]llsh[b][/b]it. That all those space battles are purely 2D is bu[b][/b]llsh[b][/b]it, too, but I get that that is to be expected from a game that put all its resources into the beautiful graphics, almost none in developing interesting gameplay, and hired voice actors (if at all) from the retirement home. The story is nothing special. I would've paid attention to it, if it hadn't been for the godawful characters... They're unbeareably cringeworthy. Remember that lady that droned out the tutorial? Turns out she's the commander of the federation and you have to endure her wooden and tedious performance for the whole campaign... Also, she has a totally secret, not at all believeable, and gut-wrenchingly annoying affair with your first hero that (according to the first scene in the campaign) everybody knows about - except for token gossip girl... and it gets only worse from there... Because of that I ended up skipping the cringeworthy intro scenes and just played the simplistic and boring battles without knowing why I'm doing this. I feel pity for whoever had to test this snore-fest for bugs over and over again... [b]which, to be fair, I didn't encounter any.[/b] But a clean, functioning game is not automatically a good game. One other thing that I disliked was that you can't remap the controls - and I really didn't like the default, because it had me constantly switching between mouse and the enter key. If the end-turn button had been the space bar, the game would've been less frustrating to slog through, if only a little bit. [h3]And they want 23€ for this admittedly gorgeous, albeit oversimplistic sh[b][/b]it!![/h3] [i](at the moment of writing)[/i]

p. gud

It took only moments in the game before I requested a refund. So lame

Nice general idea - research new tech, buy different ships and add extra equipment to build a fleet for your very own playstyle. But poor graphics (I know, I know, "graphics in TB strategy, go back to school", etc, but it's not me who constantly tries to add "3d" with all its shortcommings into TB strategies), just a few hull types and tactics based on severely restricted paper-stone-scissors game: some ships are good against capital, almost none is efficient against fighters, and EVERYONE beats the crap out of the escorts. Are you not entertained?!! Well, nope. Bought with huge discount, and still doesn't worth the money. Why quarter of century after Orion 2 no one was able to creat a proper remake is beyond me.

Cross between a browser game and a board game with some voice acting. I tried to play longer but I was not tough enough to put up with it.

Good to scratch that space, hex, turn-based, strategy game itch when you've played everything else.