Space Rangers Comments by Kieron Gillen

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!" -anyone else thought this with the language announcement?

So not "it rocks" but "it space-rocks"?

*cough* sorry, seems exceptionally good though.

Glad to see Im not the only one who thought 'ooh - it sounds like a proper commmercial version of Escape Velocity' when they read this. EV Nova is indeed really rather good, and I believe a PC version is available too.

Alas, I got into EV because Ive got a Mac, so I wont be able to play this. Bother, it sounds really rather excellent...

Could be something.

"the RTS isn’t exactly great"

Not great as say... the rts part of Imperium Galactica (II)?

God, IG2: Now there was a game.

KG

@TheDifficult3rdAlbum

KG is referring to the Rev controller announcement.

IG2! I'm going to go dig that out right now!

Will this be on the High Streets?

Well, the Elite Pirates line had me hooked and the rest of the review reeled me in. Ordered - it never felt so good to follow a crowd :-)

Ooooh! A PC game I want to play! Wonders will never cease.

Just placed order with Play not played a good space trader for aggggeeess

Sounds fantastic!!

Does anyone know anywhere this can be purchased for download? I only know of direct 2 drive, and they sure don't seem to have it.

"You've got to love the bra-waistcoat combo."

LMAO!!!

Wow! it's in the middle bit where the fancy stuff goes now! I feel part of a movement.

/checks pants.

Oh, where can I put my face....

/orders

/sees mention of Starforce

Is this true? :(( If so, I'll have to download a cracked version to install or something, I'm NOT letting that thing on my PC.

The translation is brilliant...

From a text adventure bit in a Pizza-Hack
"plus you notice several girls - in the far corner of the hall. The prostates were having some wild conversation"

Hmm. I wonder if I could train my prostate to talk?

Heads Up: this was in the 2 for 30 quid sale at my local Virgin Megastore, so I now have two copies (one in the post from Play - will make a nice Xmas pressie for one of my lucky friends!). So, you can find it out on the High Street.

/itching to get home and install

Will this run on a 750mhz Windows '98 system? I just got a C on that spec for free...

Ye dont see this quality on consoles, now do you?

/wanders off to buy this game.

Got this from Play yesterday, played for about ten hours, and can confirm that it's TEH AWESOMENESS (TM).

Just to let those who are concerned know... the Starforce protection was also an issue for a lot of people on the official forum, but according to them, most of the nastier issues around this particular copy protection system have been fixed in the latest versions... so hopefully, it should be okay this time :)

Oooo...k. I'm not taking any chances, I think.

/starts looking for cracked version so he'll have it in time for the game's actual arrival

Don't worry khab this version of StarForce seems to be a well behaved little piece of evil shite as opposed to the ropey, nasty badly written, drive killing versions before.
It just takes AGES to start, though, 20-30 seconds on my machine.
ffs! I want to play the game not watch the bloody protection start up, stupid shonky StarFarce.

The game itself is pretty groovy, i drop in for 10 minutes and wander out 2 hours later, i'm now stuck with a ship with no money, tiny cargo space, pooey armour and dominators everywhere. ( and they hand me my butt on a silver platter evrytime )
Need a get rich quick scheme! Now! :)

Can anyonr help with the system requirements? Really wanna get this..sounds like gta in space...

System Requirements - Space Rangers 2: Dominators

Minimal (This configuration does not support planetary battles)
Operating System Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Processor Pentium-2 450 MHz
RAM 128 Mb
Hard Disk Space 800 Mb
Video Card 800*600, High Colour (16-bit)
DVD Drive Required
Controls Mouse + Keyboard

Optimal
Operating System Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Processor Pentium-IV 1.6 MHz
RAM 256 Mb
Hard Disk Space 1,400 Mb
Video Card DirectX 9.0 Compatible
DVD Drive Required
Controls Mouse + Keyboard

Recommended
Operating System Windows 2000/XP
Processor Pentium-IV 2.6 MHz
RAM 512 Mb
Hard Disk Space 1,400 Mb
Video Card DirectX 9.0 Compatible
DVD Drive Required
Controls Mouse + Keyboard

Straight from the Excalibur games site, Max
It's not GTA more like 2d top-down turn-based elite but i'm enjoying it so far, it's a nice game for a break break from Fahrenheit.

It's not GTA in space, Madder Max.

Thank fuck for that.

Just bought it too. Looks like this could finally be a game to keep me interested for more than twenty minutes.

Non-linear games are the daddy.

Yeah, non-linear games rule when done right. And Space Rangers 2 certainly is.

The more I play it, the more I see it as the game which corrects most of Pirates' flaws: travelling is fast, fluid and painless; there are actually detailed, interesting missions to be done; the interface allows you to store information such as prices on each of the planets; and most importantly, there are many friendly, AI-controlled rangers competing to achieve the same goals as yourself, so you don't feel like you're TEH MAN (tm).

But still, the RTS part sucks.

but good on them for allowing you to NOT do mission types you don't like.
It's a nice little game, i'm enjoying it lots.

Now that I've got it, I'm enjoying it lots... dunno why you all diss the RTS side of things I think it's well done considering how much else there is in the game.

I had to do a bit of bird cos I'd be caught smuggling weapons, I was surprised to see there was a full on text adventure for the time you were in prison !... quality.

Love the trading, love the combat and I love the way you can go anywhere, upgrade anything and just exist.

Massive game, lots to do and one of those rare games I think I'll still be playing a year or so from now.

BUY IT!

I have to say that this is the greatest Amiga game I've ever played on a PC. It's as if the cream of 16-bit gaming floated to the top of the, erm, 32-bit milk.

Hmm, I've used better analogies.

Anyway, it's even stopped me from playing WoW; a spectacular achievement from my daylight-deprived point of view.

Thanks for bringing this gem to the attention of your readership, Kieron!

Ordered :)

Sounds fun, dontcha just love it when a game appears out of the blue?

edit: p.s. Check the top two screenshots, your system date is wrong.

Just ordered it :). 29 bucks on sale accross the pond seemed like too good a deal!

Bought this game purely on the basis of the review and I was not disapointed.

Does exactly what it says on the tin and is awesome.

The review title should be Space Rangers 2, btw. Neither Gamerankings nor Metacritic will list your review as it is now, apparently.

i bought the game based on this review, and because it made me think of another game in the 'elite' genre : freelancer (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=4589)

SR has some fun to provide, but it's short of a little something extra to get me really involved into it: i miss the 3D flight simulation in freelancers (or elite :) ) and the space fighting is really boring, you don't control much of what happens, the best thing you can do to win a battle is to get the biggest guns you can find (or afford). the turn-based rythm also kills the action i think.

i do enjoy the missions, some of them are really funny, like the "ambassador's tooth brush" ;-)...

i have only played a few hours, hopefully my impressions will change, but it better be soon , or i'll just quickly forget about it.

Catch 22 - only small publishers do great games like this, so they don't sell. Company doesn't do any more. Large publishers write clones, we don't buy but they carry on making clones anyway because they can afford it.

Great dies quickly, tat just carries on growing, gamers (at least in the last couple years) are disappearing. Doesn't the industry know to get behind ANY title from ANY publisher if it's a great game? And doesn't anybody in the business have people looking over the web and see that people love this game?!

About every two/three years or so I give a 10 out of 10 to a game. This is one of them. May be the last one based on how PC gaming is going!

One of the best, fairest reviews of this game I have seen. Why oh why are the major gaming publishers/websites so out of touch and so seemingly in the hands of the industry rather than the gamers?!

The final paragraph of the PC Zone site was almost as positive and yet they only gave it 71%!

Nice bump. One of my favourite games this!

to say this game is brilliant is an understatement. to think i was just running around bored with games looking at older games to play and then all of a sudden this one totally blew me out of the water.

horray for indie gaming :)

uk_john, i`m happy to say, that you are wrong :) this game was fairly popular in russia, and probably they just didn`t care much to try to push it to a major international publisher

Anyway, the studio just completed a remake/sequel to King`s Bounty (an rpg-predecessor of HoMM) and just like SR it is receiving raving reviews from russian gaming sites. Exact date of international release is not yet announced, but it will be sometime this year. So you might keep a look out for that )

Does anyone know if this is at all compatible with Vista?

I have a question here. Obviously, this is the review of Space Rangers 2 even if it's not clearly explained. So why are there screenshots from Space Rangers 1 ?