Armada 2526 Review

My Fraps doesn't like this game very much, so I captured what I could and gave a ton of great info about this game. My verdict -- If you love Turn Based Space Strategy then this is a must own!, It's not overly complicated, and plays like a dream!

Official Armada 2526 Website: http://www.ntronium.com/Armada2526%20Home.html

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[Daedalus732]

What's more, I find your comparison with this game and "The Witcher" and "Dragon Age" with respect to multiplayer as being ridiculous. Surely you can see a big difference between a single player fantasy RPG and a 4x space game. A scripted story based RPG is VERY different than an open-ended 4x game.

Frankly, if you have to ask why a 4x space game shouldn't be a single player game in comparison with a story driven RPG, then I question your competence in giving PC game reviews.

[srgamers]

If you don't like the lack of Multiplayer then don't buy!, frankly, when I played MOO 2, I had time to sit down and play a multiplayer game with buddies, but as I got older, I just don't have that time, games don't have to have Multiplayer, case in point look at Wolfenstein, the newest one, it's a great Single Player experience but Multiplayer is thrown in there for people like you who love to whine & complain, and the end result is a very bad Multiplayer experience.

[srgamers]

What I would recommend since my game wasn't working with Fraps is to watch the trailers from the official website so you can see more of the game and the context menus.

[ares106]

@srgamers

Hey, thanks for the review. I want to ask a game play question for an impartial reviewer such as yourself.

I always get annoyed by 4x games where researching a new hull is just like any other improvement. i.e. the best ships are always the biggest.

In Armada is there any incentive for players to mix and match realistic ratios of Destroyers Carriers Battleships in their fleet? Or can you win the game by just simply mass producing Uber Capital ships.

[srgamers]

Sorry it took so long to get back, yep, it does help to mix and match, the bigger ships are better but have a few weaknesses that smaller ships can compensate for, such as missile ships being defenseless on there own. hope that helps!

[Ironzealot7531]

the overwhelming majority of turn based strategy gamers almost exclusively play single player, according to recent surveys

so no big loss really

[FernandoMontelbon]

@Ironzealot7531 Unsurprising tbs takes so long to play that it's hard to find a way to condense that into a single day multiplayer experience.

[HardWarUK]

The main designer is R.T. Smith or "Bob". He worked on the AI for most of the Total War games and goes back to the day's of Spectrum 48k wargames beck in the early 80's!

[Lenangreal]

@ecliptic66 lot of people play in lan

[jimmymuzza]

@bluntforce2010

Im not an idiot though. Im quite smart actually. Im not a teenaer and im 21 actually. Cant wait to play Pro evo and battlefield 3 soon on my xbox

[jimmymuzza]

@bluntforce2010 go fuck yourself :)

my options were total war: empire or this pile of fucking shit. Seriously graphics are horrific in this game and the concept is stupid.

[totrice]

@jimmymuzza no it doesn't!

[Madseason3]

This is EXACTLY like armada 2525

[jimmymuzza]

looks shit

[iiiears]

@srgamers Give CamStudio a try it's free as in "Free Beer" and "Free Speech" Open Source ffmpeg is like a multimedia swiss army knife. No reason to put your trust in anything that could proxy you into an enormous bot net. It compiles with free tools or choose the pre-compiled binary..

[Omegakill1987]

Would someone be able to help me please, I sort of like the look of this game but i'm not sure, but because dev's don't bother their arses with making demo's any more and I don't fancy acting like a pirate I wanted peoples opinions. Does this play like space empires V or Galatic Civ 2? Can you custom build your own ships and research tech? Do you pick what you build on your planets. Finally is it worth the £10 I'd have to pay for the full game? Thanks in advance.