Score: 9
"One of NG's best!"
date: October 31, 2009
I thought this game was good when I first played it a number of months back, but forgot the damn name and had to ask in the forums what it was.
As others have noticed, there is a serious lack of a save game button. It isn't as fun when there isn't one, since it takes a long time to make progress. I got to like 500 days either yesterday or the day before yesterday and I couldn't see anything to save my progress it was BS.
Plus I will have to note that while starting it up and going through it for a few hours is fun, it can get incredibly dull and the mundane repetition of training, missions, and consistent game of trying to figure out what to spend money on in research or for building and where to build it can get rather tiresome.
I guess it's all part of the fun, but really that alone I don't think would make this game what it could potentially be. What you need are some minigames so that there is a little bit more deviation from the normal activity. Maybe something like the missions could be interactive instead of just you letting it sit and the game do all the work.
Also, I don't exactly like that you can't destroy the buildings. I know this was intentional as I see that it tells you that you can't, but I just don't like that. You can take this suggestion or leave it, but it's a pain. Maybe if you do though, you could put a price on it like extra money required for it's demolition as punishment to player stupidity for doing it wrong! >:D