more spessmen

I've finally touched down in spring hill.  I think I've done enough driving for a couple days. Going from east Tennessee to middle Tennessee is quite a drive. Hopefully I can get  a job around here pretty soon or at work from home or something. Not that I'm hurting for money I just need some insurance. Its bitterly cold around these parts at this time of the year. I have my space heater on right next to me to keep me warm thankfully. Enough simple sentences though time for me to about vidya game

The last game about spess I have to talk about is SPAZ or Space Pirates And Zombies. Its somewhat similar to FTL in concept - explore various star systems and upgrade your ship(s) as you go. On the most basic level its reminiscent of the original asteroids in regards to how the game controls. To grasp the feel of the game it's essentially "welcome to space, everyone hates you." and I love it. The atmosphere and humor of this game are what drive this game to be exemplary in my opinion.

Its a classic tale of going from scraps to riches, gathering various pieces of junk to assemble a capable team of (from what I've played thus far) 3 ships not including your mothership. There are two factions; UTA and CIVs. The UTA are the intergalactic space police so to speak but they are more or less completely inept in in regard to keeping the peace and they go out of their way to be dicks to everyone. The Civs can be scientist, miners, or regular space faring folks keeping to themselves. Both the CIVs and the UTA can have different opinions of you every time you go from one system to the next. Sometimes the CIVs will be stronger than the UTA or vise versa.  You can serve either faction depending on what they have that you want to get for making them like you. If you don't want to bother buttering them up you can always kill them for what you want. This can be easy or difficult depending on how each side is laid out in the respective star system and since every new game presents a randomly generated universe you're going to get a different map every time.

time to wrap this up though

the positives-
+Like all the other spess games I reviewed as of late this one isn't really graphically demanding so most computers shouldn't have too much trouble playing it
+Style wise the atmosphere is what really brings this game together and sets it apart from other titles.
+You have moral freedom to help or hurt any faction in the game with consequences for your decisions accordingly

the crapitives
-theres not much difficulty in this game. Its hard to do bad if that makes sense. As long as you have a large bank of space money you're more or less good to go.
-space in this game can get boring when the missions usually revolve around you going to x galaxy and killing/looting/escorting the exact same way you did for the last couple star systems
-progression in this game is tedious and will take a while if you go through and explore each star system. You can easily lose an hour in one star system if you want to make one faction like you a lot.