3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey Reviews

This game was made in 2007. It is very old

3030 DeathWar Redux is a lot of words for a game that plays like a early 2000's flash game. Its a game from the days of yore and you can feel the 2000's AVGN influence in both gameplay and story.

I didn't like it. Normaly space sims are on of my favorite genres and deathwar actualy has a quiet good foundation in that aspect but everything else is just incredebily mediocre. The space battles are clunky and not realy engaging, the UI is cluttered and confusing, you can set waypoints on systems and stations but no where else and 90% of the missions you get are basicaly "go to that place and maybe push a button if we are in a fancy mood". The FTL traveling in general is incredibily boring and concidering you spend like half of the game in deepspace that is a big problem, why is it that you have to go out of a split jump to chage direction, why can't I do that while jumping, that puts compleatly unnessesary stop in the gameplayflow, dodging nebulas is realy akward that way. The game also has a terrible introduction where you start flying your big fancy ship for 30 seconds, then dock on a station and then instantly loose it, after that you get bombarded with dialog that is just terribly written, neither funny nor engaging, its just playin boring. After that probably 10 minutes of nonsense you basicaly start at zero and slowly have go claw yourself back to your wealth and status which on its own is engaging enough but the actual plot progression is atrocious, it realy does a bad job of teaching the player about game or mission mechanics, either introducing them too late or not at all(no one ever told me what a nebular is). The plot even comes to an complete standstill after a while where you have no main missions available until you get contacted out of the blue per mail, I legit thought the quest system broke. I realy didn't care for the story anyway I feel bad ranting about this game because there are good things as well, I realy like that the galaxy feels alive due a lot of random events, the com link calls of pilots offering deals or assistance. It gives you a lot of freedom and things to to from the get go like the salvaging which was an ok minigame that gave more variety to the game and the music is top tier. But everything put together and deathwar just manages to be mediocre, everything it does, another game (even indigames) probably does better.