With little more than some catchy cowboy-rock background music, Rebel Galaxy effectively creates a frontier atmosphere around its cinematic starship combat. That’s appropriate for a game where you can choose to follow the main quest, or set out in any direction and strike out to make your own fortune as a trader, miner, bounty hunter, or pirate in a huge, procedurally generated star cluster. It brought out my inner Han Solo for a great space adventure.
Even if you don’t take the bounty hunting or piracy routes, most of what you’ll do in Rebel Galaxy involves combat – either attacking other ships or defending yourself from pirates or other hostiles. So it’s important that these 2D battles look and feel good – and they sure do. Because all your ship’s weapons you aren't directly controlling at any given time are manned by a customizable AI, the constant barrage of fire makes these feel like big ships with a crew that helps you out.
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Even if you don’t take the bounty hunting or piracy routes, most of what you’ll do in Rebel Galaxy involves combat – either attacking other ships or defending yourself from pirates or other hostiles. So it’s important that these 2D battles look and feel good – and they sure do. Because all your ship’s weapons you aren't directly controlling at any given time are manned by a customizable AI, the constant barrage of fire makes these feel like big ships with a crew that helps you out.
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