

Where you can retake the radioactive wasteland to continue lobbing missiles at your enemies.

I think that you have to have a bit of a dark sense of humor to enjoy the over the top nuclear warfare of First Strike. It is a RTS focused on a single style of warfare: Nuclear. It is $19.99 on Steam.įirst Strike is ghoulish fun, though it’s lagging behind the times. What Sucks: Steep difficulty curve, somewhat confusing controls.īuy it?: Fans of Wing Commander and other space sims should grab Strike Suit Zero. What’s Good: Excellent integration of story in gameplay, fun gameplay. If you really like the game, you can also buy a couple of missions pack DLCs to keep the game going. If you’ve ever liked space sim games, especially Wing Commander, this game is worth checking out. You’ll need to think more strategically, and figure out the approach you’re supposed to take to each missions objectives. Once you work out the controls, the difficulty is genuine challenge. Despite that this is a really fun game, so it’s worth the frustration. I played with gamepad, and when you switch between the mech form and the regular fighter the controls change a bit, which can be confusing at first. (To be fair, that’s somewhat always been the issue with this genre.) The controls are also a bit much to get used to. A mistake near the end of a mission might put you back a half hour or so worth of work. The missions, even early on, are long and have few checkpoints. If I had a complaint about this game, it’s that the game has a pretty steep difficulty curve. The story plays out over the communications between your squad mates and the capital ships, which is a nice avoids pulling you out of the game for extended cut scenes. This tosses a bit of arcade action into a more straight-forward game, but it feels like a nice bonus. This allows you to fly as a normal fighter for most of the time, but after a string of kills you can transform into the mech mode which allows to have missiles that lock onto multiple enemies, and a more powerful cannon. Once you meet up with a slightly mad AI, Control, you’re given the Strike Suit. The early levels have you flying a normal fighter in a pretty straight ahead Space Sim. The game puts you in the role of Adams, a disgraced pilot given a second chance to defend earth from Colonial invaders. Strike Suit Zero is a game that combines the gameplay of the classic Wing Commander games with the aesthetics of Mass Effect. Space shooters is one of the best genres that get absolutely no love.
