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Genesys Alpha One
They could have called it "In space many people can hear you scream" !!
It is a really cool game, you'll have to collect resources from planets to upgrade your ship and to improve your cloned crew, while dealing with aliens infestations and attacks on the ship.
Particularly infestations are cool... when you think that everything is going good, you just walk in that part of the ship left alone for a while just to find out that it's completely covered with goo and eggs... that naturally will immediately release a wave of xenomorphs in your direction !!
I read a lot of reviews that says somehow the same bad things about the game:
- It is repetitive
- It lack contents
- How the infestation works has no sense
I can understand the first 2, because, especially at the beginning, you'll have to do all by yourself, because the crew is still dumb, and you have very few things to do, but at some point, your crew will level up and could be improved, actually helping you cleaning the ship without babysitting them, and leaving you the time to do something else, like adding to the ship those new shiny facilities you have discovered to better defend or improve it.
There is a lot of content to be discovered indeed, with time, but most of those things are mostly juts a little more reskins... for example the enemy factions that will attack the ship with weapons in hands... they are visibly different, with different weapons and different skills, but still they attack at the same way: they will be teleported in a random room, destroying the energy lines and killing everyone in the way.
The impression is that, even if in reality, a group can literally "steal" your facilities, another will grab your stored materials, another will abduct your crew members, etc...
For the infestation, well, I think it is almost perfect how it works, and it is the main thing that will make you build the ship in a logical way.
Aliens and spores can enter the ship in 3 main different way:
- When teleporting material inside the ship
- When returning from a planet mission
- When returning from a destroyed ship
So most people just think that putting these facilities far from the other rooms is sufficient... and it is not !
The spreading could work this way:
- Robots gets materials from the teleport, and the mission ships, to move it to the Stores, and if the material contains spores, them could be spread all the way to the store !!
- Robots also get material from the store to the refinery, and even during the refining process, something can come out from those stuff !!
- If an infestation is in act near the crew, they can become sick, and go to their rooms to recover, but leaving spores all the way !!
- Also, all the ship has a sub level that connects all the rooms, and if the infestation starts there it can easily cover the entire base.
Some aliens needs to be alive to spread his species, while for others there are cloud spores that makes goo that grows eggs, so you'll have to deal with all the spores before the infestation ends... other types of infestations don't release aliens, but damages the ship, etc...
It is damn difficult at the beginning, and I had to evade most of the stuff found in space to not die... I had also to flee from a direct attack from an enemy ship destroyer.
I finished only one time, but I still have a lot of stuff to unlock, and places to visit that I evaded before.
Anyway, I really hope for more added contents, or even DLC with worthy stuff in them, because I never seen a game like this before, and it really deserve to be improved !!
They could have called it "In space many people can hear you scream" !!
It is a really cool game, you'll have to collect resources from planets to upgrade your ship and to improve your cloned crew, while dealing with aliens infestations and attacks on the ship.
Particularly infestations are cool... when you think that everything is going good, you just walk in that part of the ship left alone for a while just to find out that it's completely covered with goo and eggs... that naturally will immediately release a wave of xenomorphs in your direction !!
I read a lot of reviews that says somehow the same bad things about the game:
- It is repetitive
- It lack contents
- How the infestation works has no sense
I can understand the first 2, because, especially at the beginning, you'll have to do all by yourself, because the crew is still dumb, and you have very few things to do, but at some point, your crew will level up and could be improved, actually helping you cleaning the ship without babysitting them, and leaving you the time to do something else, like adding to the ship those new shiny facilities you have discovered to better defend or improve it.
There is a lot of content to be discovered indeed, with time, but most of those things are mostly juts a little more reskins... for example the enemy factions that will attack the ship with weapons in hands... they are visibly different, with different weapons and different skills, but still they attack at the same way: they will be teleported in a random room, destroying the energy lines and killing everyone in the way.
The impression is that, even if in reality, a group can literally "steal" your facilities, another will grab your stored materials, another will abduct your crew members, etc...
For the infestation, well, I think it is almost perfect how it works, and it is the main thing that will make you build the ship in a logical way.
Aliens and spores can enter the ship in 3 main different way:
- When teleporting material inside the ship
- When returning from a planet mission
- When returning from a destroyed ship
So most people just think that putting these facilities far from the other rooms is sufficient... and it is not !
The spreading could work this way:
- Robots gets materials from the teleport, and the mission ships, to move it to the Stores, and if the material contains spores, them could be spread all the way to the store !!
- Robots also get material from the store to the refinery, and even during the refining process, something can come out from those stuff !!
- If an infestation is in act near the crew, they can become sick, and go to their rooms to recover, but leaving spores all the way !!
- Also, all the ship has a sub level that connects all the rooms, and if the infestation starts there it can easily cover the entire base.
Some aliens needs to be alive to spread his species, while for others there are cloud spores that makes goo that grows eggs, so you'll have to deal with all the spores before the infestation ends... other types of infestations don't release aliens, but damages the ship, etc...
It is damn difficult at the beginning, and I had to evade most of the stuff found in space to not die... I had also to flee from a direct attack from an enemy ship destroyer.
I finished only one time, but I still have a lot of stuff to unlock, and places to visit that I evaded before.
Anyway, I really hope for more added contents, or even DLC with worthy stuff in them, because I never seen a game like this before, and it really deserve to be improved !!
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