This is a story that can be enjoyed, but it is filled with typical sci-fi clichés and twists that you may find interesting, but most will see them coming due to the game’s unoriginal plot points. The plot is told through introductory cutscenes before missions and during dialogue in game. Nearly 10 years have passed since that disaster, and now the commissioner sees it fit to send in an expedition crew with Ulysses 2 to seek answers to exactly what happened. The story follows Dr Bruke and her expedition into the Black Zone, a section of space that was involved in an incident with Ulysses 1. You have the likes of Ron Glass from Firefly, Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica, Dina Meyer from Starship Troopers and Dwight Schultz from a couple of Star Trek shows, all who deliver a somewhat decent performance with the material on hand. The game’s characters are voiced by people who are straight from the world of sci-fi. To give you a background on what I like about the genre, I enjoy RTS games that focus on resource gathering and building armies, but don’t often get into the multiplayer aspect of them much, so hearing about CreativeForge Game’s first title, Ancient Space, and how it focuses on bringing a story to a single-player (no multiplayer here) RTS had me intrigued to the point I decided to put everything down and check it out.Īncient Space seems to be reaching directly to the sci-fi crowd and enticing them in with its cast. With so many games being released in this current climate, I find that I have been busy concentrating on so many titles that I haven’t had the chance to see what new games entered the space RTS genre. It’s not that I don’t like the genre, it’s just that I usually end up playing an RTS game set on land, like the classic Command & Conquer games or Total Annihilation.

It feels like an ancient time since I last played a real-time strategy (RTS) game set in space.

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