Gratuitous Space Battles

[simonjedi]

I played a demo of this earlier and thought some of you might like it.

What is it?

GSB is the next game from UK developer 'Positech Games'. It's a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games : The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going 'zap!', 'ka-boom!' and 'ka-pow!'. In GSB you put your ships together from modular components, arrange them into fleets, give your ships orders of engagement and then hope they emerge victorious from battle (or at least blow to bits in aesthetically pleasing ways).

Gratuitous Space Battles aims to bring the over-the-top explodiness back into space games. The game is for everyone who has watched big space armadas battle it out on TV and thought to themselves 'I could have done a much better job as admiral'. This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. These gratuitous space battles are not won by plucky heroes with perfect teeth, but by the geeky starship builders who know exactly what ratio of plasma-cannons to engines each ship in the fleet will need.

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Official website

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/index.html

[Big Cam]

Hmm, looks interesting as a DEMO, but I don't think I'd ever pay for that. The graphics look very sub-par, especially with the gaming systems out now and all the options for Strategy/Mngmt style games.

[simonjedi]

Hmm, looks interesting as a DEMO, but I don't think I'd ever pay for that. The graphics look very sub-par, especially with the gaming systems out now and all the options for Strategy/Mngmt style games.

It is an Indie game from an indie developer, its not going to look like the next Crysis or whatever. The graphics are fine for what it is.