Startopia snapy title (Startopia (PC))

Member Name: gifmonster

Product:	Startopia (PC)
Date:	11/10/01 (44 review reads)
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Advantages: great Graphics, great sound, great gameplay

Disadvantages: Slow loading

When I first saw the review on startopia in a gameing magazine I instantly wanted to buy it. I love simulations and even more space sims. The screen shots that the magazine showed me all that I needed to know. The only problem was that I had to wait 8 months until it came out in the shops.

I had forgotten about the game until several of my friends started talking about it, by this time it had already been out in the shops for a week. So I decided to buy the game.

First thing that I have to say is WOW, the game loaded slow on my 400Mhz computer but while the sim is running it runs quite fast.

The ingame graphics are the best that I have seen and the manuravalability in the game is easy using the shift key and the mouse, or just the arrow keys.

The game is quite hard to master. As there are so many buildings to build and rooms to discover that it will take several hours of gameplay to find out about everything. There are several illnesses that the aliens can catch. Some rooms need extra facilitys which need to be researched by the research team which you pick out of your space stations guests. There are several types of alien which visit your space station, each are experts in different fileds. Ie the priests set up a church on the bio deck and earn you money by getting followers. Or the big bad aliens are sercurity.

The one part of the game that you must absoloutly see is the starup movie. Its very good and funny.

I like this game and think that anyone would enjoy it no matter what the age. it has a sandbox mode whihc is just build your own space station with no objective or you can carry out the missions. This game has a high playability figure and I just like playing it(Although if i play it for more than 4 hours at a time i get bored).

This is definatly a game to buy if you like sim games or space games.

Also before I wrap up, the game has a slight dungeon keepers II feel about it.

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