Waves of Steel

A few 'suspiciously' political game devs could learn from this game... A lot of devs who are 'excessively' obsessed with politics end up ruining their games trying to force a 'message' across instead of making a decent game, or make the game 'about' the race or sexuality of the characters instead of 'the game'... This is not one of those, there is 'just' enough to make you think they might be of a certain political persuasion and willing to show it, but it never gets insultingly invasive. [I always say to each there own, but a 'wheel chair' on a battle ship is a bad idea, 'inclusivity' or not, based on basic physics the poor guy would be thrown around like a meanball in a blender in battle, It only feels 'slightly' weird when one character refers to him as 'their' while he refers to himself as he, and the 'muh fascism is bad' message is very clear, but none of it is 'shovel slammed' into your face so hard that it detracts from the game, and while that message 'is' a good one, with how toxic politics is these days it inherently makes one wonder if it's meant that way.] The game itself is a pretty fun ship customizer... I can't say ship 'builder' as you just use the platform of the ship to position things on, but what designing you 'can' do is flexible enough that i still spent hours just toying around with the ship editor. The combat... well, it's not 'bad', early on it 'feels' like a good arcadey ship battler... later one though?... I had so much fire-power that i just drift lazily between enemy fleets and sink them all as easily as walking, it becomes WAY to easy eventually, and once you've completed the game and got all the unlocks, there's really nothing else to do to keep you playing... I only 'failed' once because i accidentally over-boosted so hard i launched myself out of the map and was considered fleeing. xD In all honestly it made me want to go play from the depths, because 'this' is the kinda brain busting absurdity i always built in that game, just without the hours or even days of building a ship from scratch to get to the silliness. All in all, i'd give it about a 7 out of 10, ignoring the political influences, it's not a bad game, and it scratches an itch i have about ship customization where i just wanna get silly with it, but when it's over it's just plain over. That said, I Do recommend it for at least one play through, i 'did' get my money's worth, and it rekindled that old itch for ship building xD

I should have bought this sooner.

ITS PEAK, the shipbuilding is verry well done, and fun, so is the gameplay. my only complaint is that there are no bigger battleships in the game than the battlemaran. Game is fun, and works well, but can stress test ur pc if u are going into a custom game with 840 ships in it. 10/10

I am precisely 6 missions in and already i feel the connection to Naval Ops:Warship gunner, one game that is still the reason I have my PS2 hooked up. The mere fact that I have been missing out on this game for so long feels like a personal failure on my part to have not found it. Yes its not as polished as Naval Ops, but the care is there [intentional or not] and that made it worth my money. Fair seas TMA Games.

This game is fun to play, for all skill levels.

Dude, you can go over the damned land and skip some parts on a few missions, it's utterly hilarious! And on another mission, you can look through some walls to see whether or not there's any big ships to fight! I love this!

The story was written by a tied-up chimpanzee, but the gameplay and ship designer are great. Love how the stakes/craziness seem to increase with every level, there were a few moments that genuinely shocked me. 9/10 check it out!

brilliant game, you can build and play mostly historical ships or build crazy nonsense and both can beat all missions would love a good carrier dlc, but i imagine carriers would be very hard to make fun, half the appeal of this game is the fast paced zipping about which is the opposite of what a carrier does