Fog of War: The Battle for Cerberus Reviews

I wish I could recommend it, I really do, but it just has too many issues. It gives the sci-fi military feel, but that's where my praise ends. I went through my playthrough trying to peacefully help the civilians while also encouraging diplomacy and peace between the Astral force and the rebels, and with every choice the game acted like I succeeded and then ignored my accomplishment on the next page. The story fails to characterize any groups past a surface level- there is no actual motivation for the rebellion, or if there is one it's buried so deep that you will almost certainly not learn of it on an average playthrough. On the other hand, the Terran military is characterized as heavy-handed and oppressive but again with zero actual motivations besides seemingly genuine humanitarian aid. The story sets you up to question the nature of the conflict but then fails to answer any of those questions. Rebellions always have a reason, but here the rebels devolve into little more than terrorists attacking a genuine humanitarian aid mission [spoiler] (which the rebel general directly stated they would not interfere with, by the way); [/spoiler] that the rebels themselves also agree is necessary for the civilians, and it all left me feeling like I had the rug pulled from under me for daring to question an excessive-force military intervention.