The widescreen mode just stretches everything horizontally, defeating the point, so mostly played in a standard-aspect window. The GUI: Consolitus crippled and incompletely refined.Īs with any game, the first thing I encountered was the GUI. What were they thinking? There is no post mortem for the game (unlike Starpoint Gemini 2 and 3). To quote The Nerd, 'What the Hell were they thinking?!' Making games is hard work, but some of these things were simple data entry errors. Also, the way that its unfinished features jutted out unexpectedly, a mild insult to the end-user. Mostly in the many ways that it was overly streamlined. That's because playing produced frequent reminders of its wasted potential. And, despite seeing this series as a labor of love at times, I resented myself for spending this much time in it. Times with my ears ringing with plasma cannon fire while starfields I played it long enough to get my money's worth and went to bed many

I had spent about $30 on the game, and I desperately hoped it would turn out to be an Elite derivative that had the universal simulation scope of a 4X game. Playing Starpoint Gemini Warlords for 35 hours was a bit of a fool's errand.

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