Hardwar

As an old fan of this game, and owner of the original CD's, I'm glad to see Steam pick up this game and port it for use on modern Windows 10 or later pc machines. Optical drives are being phased out, the latest laptops no longer have a CD drive, and external CD drives are awkward to use with the original CD discs. Also, not having to switch CD's mid-game is another advantage of the Steam version of fhis game. Setting up the Display settings on the Steam version is annoying as i had found it necessary to try several different display options before finding one that properly centered and sized the game video output for my machine. However, once that has been done, the game works well. You have the choice of either playing through the game scenario, or by ignoring the ** highlighted messages you can play inside the game world as an open-ended sandbox however you like. You can act like a trader, a scavenger, a pirate-hunter, or a pirate, or all once. With the appropriate devices and garage spaces, with time and patience, you can eventually set yourself up as a narcotics manufacturer, missile outfitter, or even just as the absentee owner of a collection of repair shops in each of the craters for other moths. When this game was created in 1998, it was well ahead of its time. It is very replayable, and decades later I still find myself drawn back to it. Just for the ease and convenience of having this game to play on my Windows 11 machine, it's well worth the $10 that Steam sells it for.

On my god. FINALLY!! Guys if your reading this and have no idea what this game is, this is my childhood, got this game as a demo in like 1997-8 and LIVED IN THIS WORLD the fact that steam has this game FILLS me with a happyness no other game has matched, its made is 1997! and its still really good, yes the AI ships get buggy but its from 1997!!! if you love space ship shims this is for you! and the funny thing is its not even in space xD tip: rebind your controls as they are OG controls back when gaming keyboard layouts where chaos! 11/10 game, one of the most underrated and unknown games of the century

Este es un juego alucinante. Con una ambientacion y una jugabilidad sublime para el año que fue creado que es 1998. Lo habia comprado cuando tenia 13 años en 2003 pensando que iba a ser un shooter de naves al estilo B-hunter. Pero como estaba en ingles no entendia nada sobre como se jugaba, ni siquiera de lo que pasaba durante el juego. Asi que solo me dedicaba a pasear en la nave. Hoy 20 años despues lo volvi a jugar y con un mayor conocimiento de ingles lo pude jugar mejor. Pero lamenteblemente despues de 20 años por desgracia para mi sigue siendo injugable. Porque el juego no se porque razon solo tiene una ranura de guardado y solo esa para todo el juego. No me pregunten porque. Y segundo que las pistas que te da el juego para avanzar son terriblemente contraintuitivas. Porque hay cosas que tenes que hacer si o si para poder avanzar bien en la historia que no te dice en ningun momento. Como comprar un hangar para meter a las naves que vas comprando, o saber cuando y en que sitio hay que mejorar todo el equipamiento y el software de la nave, que tampoco te dice. Lo que significa que para jugar a este juego hay que saber jugarlo de antes, lo cual en el manual puede que te diga algo pero esta en ingles y no te dice en detalle lo que realmente hay que hacer. O como minimo un tutorial en el menu del juego porque incluso en el nivel mas facil de dificultad es dificil. Ni siquiera el mismo juego te da pistas porque a pesar de que te mandan mensajes de todo tipo y de varias empresas ficticias del juego no te dice estas indicaciones para poder jugar mejor. La verdad que no me parece un juego bien hecho en lo absoluto. Y tranquilamente podria ponerle una reseña negativa. Pero tambien hay que situarse en el contexto que fue desarrollado donde ya habia juegos de naves que transcurren en el futuro, mas lineales como Freespace. Porque si le sacaran toda esa complejidad jugable que tiene no tendria personalidad. Y no se destacaria en nada. Mas sabiendo que las cinematicas estan hechas con actores reales. Pero en lo personal me parece una falta de respeto al jugador que pago por el juego y que en cima ya hay que jugarlo con una lectura previa como si los que jugamos viviéramos en ese futuro. Pero igual si te encantan los juegos hardcore de naves quizas lo termines amando. Definitivamente este juego nunca fue para mi. Ni ahora, ni hace 20 años.

I cant believe I'm playing this on steam ! Way cool , I lost my disks years ago great game

It's kind of like a mix between Mount & Blade and Descent, but without knights or confusing world geometry. The game lets you conduct business and shoot down "moths" as they're called. You can attack criminals or rival faction members to collect bounties. Starting a repair shop is the easiest way to earn passive cash with the only requirement being of owning a building in a heavy traffic spot, but you can also manufacture goods for sale. There's a plot and the main goal is to get out of Titan. The missions are really easy and the game turns super easy when you've got yourself a good moth. The fusion reactor seems to never run out of energy and afterburner can be used to escape any situation. It's a good game, but it's got a weird difficulty curve of being really difficult when you're still weak.

This game was under sold and unknown by the gamers of the time. I was lucky enough to have a friend back then to tell me about how cool it was. It's a top ten for me and the replay-ability has proven worthy for all these years. One of the best games ever!! IMO.

There just aren't enough words to describe how happy this game has always made me. I originally bought it for like $5 or $10 bucks at a grocery store back in the 2000's sometime. To have it re-released to work on current computers is a DREAM I've had ever since I could never get it running on windows 7 back in the day. I thought I'd never be able to play it again and was SO sad. Now... I can play again, and die happy :)

Played this when it came back in the 90'. Was as good as I remembered it was. And this reminded me when you had no waypointers and you had to read / listen gameworld so you could advance in the game's story. Core Game mechanic is awesome and would like to have new games made as living as this one is. It's like EVE online on moon with AI. Recommended.

One of if not the finest style of this game I played the original way back itvwas brilliant then and is brilliant now

My favorite game from a past life (when CD ROMs ruled). Great story line, interesting inbedded videos that are craftilly done; graphics were way ahead of its time. I've wanted to play this ever since it sort of disappeared 20 years ago. Thanks to whoever resurrected Hard War...where the future is greedy.