Starpoint Gemini

Works with windows 10. Graphics are a bit dated, even with filters. The most annoying and game-breaking thing for me was that the free camera will get stuck every now and then so that I had to restart from load to unlock it. Story and dialogues voice acting are bad, borderline horrible. Sounds are O.K. Controls are a bit clunky and awkward. The gameplay is slow and grindy. Overall, it's a so, so game. I will recommend it, just because it has so many bad reviews which do not do it just as it's the first game by this developer (and it's not all that bad) as well only if you want to learn Gemini story and support the devs. otherwise, stay away.

Tutorial take 1 "Hey I have locked your control while you have to listen to my entirely out of context diatribe which I call tutorial" Some minutes of bla bla "Click Close" I click "Close". nothing happens. Ok thats the tutorial? Less suffering for me I start pushing random buttons, ship starts moving. "you were not allowed to move, tutorial failed" ..... ok.... thats one way to handle it Tutorial take 2 By exhausting all clickable options in exactly the correct sequence I get the boring diatribe to continue. "Fly to the station" ok, I can do that. The station looks weird, somehow ghostly. Took me some time to realize that you can see the shadows of objects through other objects. I don't even know if the campaign is playable. I couldn't take the "tutorial"

Sadly I bought this game as part of a bundle a while ago, after playing the pretty good starpoint gemini: warlords, but the issue at hand is, this game does not work for windows 10. Other than the tutorial, trying to start a game will result in a crash to desktop. Having said that, from the 30 minutes I was able to experience this, the tutorial is horrendous. The instructor, that uses the exact same portrait as the default character (which is the only one available)(i.e: not great for immersion from the get-go) speaks in a barely audible russian-like voice and bombards you with information about the interface way before you need to use it. You have no way to check what he previously said either so you might have to go by trial and error after the information barrage ends and you need to actually do stuff. This game feels extremely dated. Again, from the 30 minutes I could appreciate it, I had a huge rejection to the tutorial and the way it was presented. The character creation seems like it was done on MS paint! I had no problem getting into old games with shoddy graphics and clunky interfaces, but this was ridiculous. They might as well used a static portrait picture and leave it at that. It would have been much better. I bought this just in order to get to know the story. Since it doesn't work on windows 10, now I'm stuck with this unuseable piece of software, that even if I wanted to push from my initial aversion and see what it has to offer, I can't. Steam should not push games that don't run on the de-facto operative system.

I'm enjoying the game, I purchased this as a package with the sequel anticipating some good fun. I like the upgrades - crew - style of the game. Looking forward to the weekends of playing.

SUPER!!

нравятся такие игры. но эта уж больно однообразна и нудная, еще иногда вылетает игра

UNPLAYABLE. EVEN AFTER YOU GET THE GAME GOING ITS SO BAD YOU'LL UNINSTALL IT IN MINUTES.