Genesis Rising

so the screenshots in steam are pretty damn cool and it is the first of those games that i know where you are supposed to be playing the "hunters", but actually i don´t now this, because the game isn´t playable. it shows a millions of errors and then you can´t see the gui and the ship textures are missing too... at least it seems to be like this since i just saw the tutorial and then i stopped playing it

Using the fixes mentioned in the discussions section of the game I managed to get the main menu working, which allowed me to adjust the usual things located there such as graphics, sounds, etc. and look at the possible tutorial/campaign missions you should be able to play. Sadly the slightest adjustment in the graphic options will result in a flurry of error messages (which I ignored while starting up the game) and trying to launch a tutorial, campaign or skirmish will promptly crash the game. -2/7 Not enough sci-fi space battles

So much potential, so little substance. I managed to actually play the game, through clicking error boxes, creating directories as suggested by Future2012. It was an interesting idea and I usually LOVE RTS type games see Star Trek: Armada 1 and 2, Homeworld 2. The genes and blood thing was pretty cool, but it just failed to deliver a playable game.

It's kinda buggy (see the forums), and the human ships look like flying scabs. And it feels laggy, despite running at 60 FPS. The voice acting is about what you'd expect from a D&D game in your basement. But it kinda reminds me of homeworld.

Sadly, I cannot even play past part 2 of the campaign. Game fails to load the Mothership models and prevents the game from progressing. Has a neat idea of building mod-able turrets and accessories on the ships you can build but is crippled by an unfriendly user interface and riddled with bugs. I played the tutorials and two skirmish matches with the AI. It needed more glut removed. Warzone 2100 or Impossible Creatures are two games with similar concepts for anyone wanting to play a game with the cool idea this game wasn't able to utilize. I only recommend watching a Let's Play so you can see how the game is meant to work.

Tags: Tactical - Sci Fi Sandbox Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library (2.5GB) TLDR: First tutorial map was outright broken, no audio, trapped completely zoomed in on a ship, couldnt scroll the map, tutorial would not advance. Had to CTRL ALT DEL After reloading the game my mouse would refuse to move in diagonal, so I boosted sensitivity and launched second map, voice acting and the 3d was good enough, seemed like it was a tactical game about using special abilities with a genetic flavor to defeat enemies, explore and get more genes and whatnot. Unfortunately the gene tab wouldnt open and it was critical to defeating that mission, along with the janky mouse movement I decided that was far enough of a trial to axe this game permanently Too bad I kinda liked where this one was going conceptually

Can't even start the game without a ton of errors, and no sound.