SO happy to find this game here! Spent a small fortune renting it back in
the day, before my daughter found a copy for me on e-Bay. Have finished
it half a dozen times but here I am, back for another go-round. For me,
this game never grows old, never seems 'dated'. I love wandering through
space and fighting with the spacecrafts encountered there; it's a lovely
'side mission' apart from the storyline (which is detailed and interesting
even on my 7th or 8th go-round with this game). So much fun experimenting
with different armies and rolling stats to come up with the best possible
characters in various combinations. I simply cannot recommend this game
highly enough! Very, very habit-forming.

More about this game: You create a team and are sent through the
universe on missions. Creating different teams (with varying races, job
classes and abilities) and testing their effectiveness contributes
greatly to the addictiveness (and replay-ability) of this game. While
traveling to your various missions, your spacecraft encounters enemy
ships and you can choose to battle them until they blow up or just
damage them enough to board and battle the armies that await within (for

XP, items and money). I strongly recommend boarding at least one
Mercurian Cruiser to loot the excellent plasma throwers that are
available nowhere else in the game.
The music and graphics are old school Sega Genesis, so they leave a
little to be desired. But the storyline and the universe you travel in
are vast and richly detailed. The battle sequences can be set to 'Auto
Battle' or you can move the characters around and choose their weapons
and targets. The game is challenging but not so difficult as to make
your head meet your keyboard in frustration. I did not use a walkthrough

the first time I finished this game but I use one now, to find all of
the smaller nuances and hidden quests that I'd missed the first time
around.

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Wow, you must be a pretty good fan of this game huh? Well, I personally never played this, but it does sound pretty fun, so I might play it sometime.

I, too, have never  played this game before. I haven't heard anything about it before, so I don't see myself moving too it anytime soon. Just wondering, do you think you could include a little more about the game itself so we can get a better idea of what the game is like? The more we get a sense of the game, the more likely we are to play it too.

bionic4ever : So... are you recommending this, because if you are, I might just have to respect my elders and try it out. Laughing Out Loud. 

Um, hope you don't mind me asking, but a thought just occurred to me: Are you military of any sort, or was your parents or Uncles, Grandparents? I don't mean any disrespect sir, it just sounds to me like you are the Military type.

thing1 - No, not military (and not a Sir - lol). My dad was in the Army though, before I was born. I'm just an old school gaming nerd. 

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I haven't really heard of this game that much, but it does sound like an interesting and fun game, so I might play it sometime. Good review btw. Good job.