Reviews - Infinity00

In brief:

The game captures some of the Star Wars flavor, but fails to embrace the epic scale that we've come to love about Star Wars. There are unlikely to be any Battle of Endor moments where the game makes your jaw drop. Ship scale and planet scale are disappointing, and ships lack the detail that made me love the HW2 mod.

Balance is somewhat out of whack, both in resource cost and combat ability. The cost of ships and tech means that the early game is tedious. This also has the ancillary effect of screwing over factions that start with neighboring systems that have high numbers of militia ships; by the time they are overcome, they are too far behind to be a challenge. It also means that the pirate faction is incredibly overpowered, as a typical pirate raid has enough missile ships to one-volley a capital ship off the field.

There are some AI problems as well. It feels like it's difficult to get the AI to engage in a fight, and gravity well generators tend to break the AI; They can't flee, but they don't fight either. Instead they sit at the system's edge and die one-by-one.

Finally, the sense of scale is affected greatly by the Sins-style combat design, where ships trade blows from incredible ranges; this is in complete contradiction of the Star Wars universe where ships trade fire from fairly close range, even intermingling. All in all, the mod presents a functional Star Wars experience, but lacks the essential spirit of the universe that really brings it together: a sense of scale.