GNeguceanuJun 23, 2015$4.99View on Steam ↗

Centauri Sector

Centauri Sector is a top down tactical space combat game powered by a dynamic turn based campaign, rpg elements, fleet management and ground base combat.

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$6.1K

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61%

6.1/10

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Centauri Sector is a tactical, space combat game that combines several gameplay elements effectively to create an addicting game. You assume the role of a fleet commander, starting out with a basic corvette class ship, tasked with defending the Tabula Rasa system from constant space pirate attacks. The main campaign plays in turns, as players move their ship or fleet once per turn before engaging in the tactical battles.

After each successful mission, players gain prestige (money/credits) and experience, to level up and unlock skills like speed boosts, shield upgrades and more. The level ups also allow fleet slots to add ships to a squad. Not only can different ship types be added, but each ship has different weapon and module slots depending on the class. Players can also purchase and add modules that increase shield capacity, buffer a weapon’s overheating rate, and speed up engines.

Features:

Pilot your flag ship in an awesome top down 2D combat.
While in combat manage your shields, power, weapons capacitor and more.
Engage in advanced tactical combat by forming your own fleet and issuing commands to destroy the pirates.
Gain new active and passive skills and bonuses by climbing through the ranks.
Equip your ships with a wide variety of modules and guns.
Engage in a dynamic war powered by a turn based dynamic campaign that doesn't always plays the same.
Participate in ground defense missions.

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Not recommended4h played115 found helpfulJul 2015

Centauri Sector is a space-based RTS/shooter game where you take control of your own ship as well as assume control of land units in an effort to fight off pirates. As a member of the Omega Federation you have fled Sol in search of a better life in the Centauri Sector. However, the dream of a peaceful life away from the greed and war you fled is short lived as pirates soon come to raid your sector, the question is, can you fight them off? Sadly, the answer to that question is probably no, at least in my experience, and the more you fail the harder it is to succeed. Before I get into the meat of the review I'll briefly outline the two different parts of this game. Up first we have the game's ship vs. ship space combat in which you take on a group of enemies threatening your Sector in some way. You don't have to go it alone though, pirate fleets often attack other patrols in the sector who will help you out if you jump into a fight with them. As you rank up you'll also gain the ability to have your own 'escorts' which are up to two ships which will fight with you in combat. Sometimes a pirate fleet will attack a space station or a trade ship in which case you'll have to defend them as well. The other aspect of the game is the ground missions which are basically incredibly simplified Tower Defense levels. There's a point on the map which you have to defend and you can place turrets around that point and defend against enemies coming from several different sides of the map. There's very little strategy to this aspect of the game, simply build turrets (and other things when you unlock them such as mines) where you think they'll be most effective and then rebuild them when they're inevitably destroyed. +The compulsory tutorial provides a good introduction to the game's mechanics though it is irritating that it can't be skipped if you start the game again +The UI is very simple and easy to use and everything you need is always visible +Having up to two ships help you out (once you're a high enough rank) is nice, especially as you can order them to attack specific ships +A decent amount of upgrades, including four types of weapons, each with four variations as well as upgrade modules for your ship which do things such as slightly increase speed or shield capacity etc. +Ranking up lets you unlock skills which are useful during combat, skills range from shield capacity boosts for you and your fleet to temporary weapon damage boosts (you can unlock four skills, each time you rank up you have a choice of three skills) +/-It very much looks and feels like a flash game. What do I mean by this? The graphics are very basic, there's very little in the way of gameplay depth, there's not much in the way of customisation etc. -You're effectively punished for dying, this is my biggest issue with the game. When you die you're simply given the default version of whatever your main, player controlled, ship is as well as being given your 'escorts' back, this means you lose all of your upgrades. This wouldn't be a problem if the difficulty was the same throughout the game but it's not, the game gets increasingly difficult and the harder the game gets the more likely you are to die and once you've lost your upgrades when it's difficult, it's nigh on impossible to get them back -Both aspects of the game are incredibly repetitive (I found the game repetitive after around 20 minutes of gameplay), once you've fought all the different kinds of enemies it just turns into shooting at stuff or placing turrets over and over again which does not make for a fun experience -There's not much in the way of options, you get two sliders for sound and the choice between Fullscreen or Windowed mode, that's it -There are only four playable ships which feels like not enough for me in what's effectively a Space sandbox, it gets worse when you realise only two of the ships are actually better than the ship you start with, making the other ship only good as a basic 'escort' ship -Speaking of 'escort' ships, they can't be upgraded at all which means once you get into more difficult sections of the game they're effectively useless cannon fodder and therefore a waste of money -Another part of the space combat is being able to control how much power your systems (weapons, engines and shields) are getting, sadly this part isn't too well done as you only change the amount of power by set amounts and when you increase one power level the other two have to decrease to the same level which means you always have to focus on one aspect of your ship and no more -Shields take an incredibly long time to recharge which is rather frustrating as your ship has very little health once its shields drop -The game has different backgrounds for the space battles which are supposed to show up in the corresponding section of Space, i.e. when you're near the blue planet you get the background with the blue planet on, but this doesn't seem to be the case, as far as I can tell the selection of the background is random which seems silly considering someone had to make a background for each planet Verdict: Not Recommended Unless it Receives a Hefty Discount (4/10) Centauri Sector is a nice idea on paper but is let down in practice by its repetitiveness, the fact it punishes failure and its lack of options/customisation. Unless this game gets a very good discount or the dev addresses a good few of the issues with the game I suggest holding off on this one. [b]Review Copy Provided.[/b] [i]No drama, [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/justreviews]Just Reviews.[/url][/i] El K.

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