OT: Star Ships Unlimited

sachmo · #1 September 16th, 2002, 09:18 PM

http://www.matrixgames.com/Games/sta...ed2/index.html

gregebowman · #2 January 12th, 2004, 11:21 PM

Just picked this game up over the weekend. Looks interesting, but I had to wait to get to work to print out the manual (I hate those pdf manuals). So hopefully I'll get the chance to read it and try this game out. Has anyone played since the previous Posts, and do you have any hints, tips or cheats?

Puke · #3 January 12th, 2004, 11:41 PM

I played it a long while back. it looks neat, but i found the interface rather non-intuitive. I could design ships and build them, but I was never quite sure if i was doing reasearch properly, or how planetary colonization and development was supposed to work.

I felt like I was just ordering a handfull of ships around the map to 'run over' various icons to collect them, and to shoot at bad things. It seemed like it would be fun if i could figure out the more advanced features, but not fun enough to be worth putting the effort into.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 January 13th, 2004, 12:16 AM

Quote:

Just picked this game up over the weekend. Looks interesting, but I had to wait to get to work to print out the manual (I hate those pdf manuals). So hopefully I'll get the chance to read it and try this game out. Has anyone played since the previous Posts, and do you have any hints, tips or cheats?

you read the manual BEFORE you play the game?

you are a sad, strange man and i pity you. - Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story.

Atrocities · #5 January 13th, 2004, 12:28 AM

I forgot I had even started this thread and I was really surprised to see someone revive it.

gregebowman · #6 January 13th, 2004, 05:50 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I forgot I had even started this thread and I was really surprised to see someone revive it.

Well, I did have to do a search on it. I could have started an original thread, but I figured WTH, I'll bump this one up and see if I get any responses.

Narf, I did try to play without reading the manual, but I couldn't figure what the heck I was doing. So I printed the manual out today, and hopefully will get a clue as to what I'm supposed to be doing. I don't even know if there's a tutorial on this game or not.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 January 13th, 2004, 06:10 AM

a game where you have to read the manual first??

thinks...thinks some more...thinks even more...i think i've only ever ran into one of those.

[ January 13, 2004, 04:10: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]