Buy Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD

This is no newsbreak. Space Force Rogue Universe is the king of indie space sims. And refreshing it in HD is well expected from devoted team, and expected for a legendary titles nowadays. Just immerse a little bit and you'll be rewarded. I ain't gotta time here :) must go finish some trade routes and a few annoying pirates :) Enjoy!

Short review: I got this for free... and I still want a refune.

Indepth: I got thie game for free for kickstarting another project by the devs. I'm not if it's possible but I'd like to give it back.

Graphics: The graphics are extremely dated. They would have looked stunning... late 90s, early 2000... maybe. But I remember a game called Freelancer (Chris Roberts) and it's graphics were/are far superior and that was made back in 2003. It says HD... but it's not. The screen shots provided make it look so much better than it is. Which is a real let down during the golden age of retro gaming you'd think if they were honest the players wou;d be far more forgiving esp. the older generations that played Wing Commander back in the day.

The opening cinematic was so bad(graphics/plot/audio) I can't help but think it was a test and they just went with it.

Audio: The Sound design=Horrible. The voice acting is the worst I've heard in a long time. I would have preferred none but it seems you get half and half. The brief tutorial you get are silent with your "Cortana" telling you to press the 'Dock' key or the 'Teleport' key... you'd think since they are doing text their allow user-defined but nope.
The music is barely noticable, the sound effects for collision and fire of your laser cannons (pew pew) is just bad. I would have preferred the silence in space than what was provided.

Gameplay: This is the worst part of the game. The controls are unintuitive, all over the keyboard, make no sense and the only decent thing is allowing joystick control (who has one of those there days?).
The menus are annoying to navigate as they do a 5 second slow fade to black and back again. There is NO tutorial. None. just go fly... good luck. You accidently shoot friendlies so many times in the early stages of the game you may as well just be a pirate to start with.

The starting packages do include pirate as well as soldier, scientist, adventurer, hunter, spy, the third nut of the pop and don't forget your mum. They don't do much except give you a slight advantage in a few minor things otherwise there is no customising your character. You are Ace Pretty Boy with Dead Eyes in search of your sister.

Don't buy this. If you like space sims. Like really love them. As it you sneak off for quick space hyper jumps whenever you can... still do not buy this game. I really wish it was good... seems like it could have been a new Privateer style game... but it isn't.

R.I.P. Space Flight Sims (until Star Citizen finally gets released)

unfinished, no tut, crashes

First sorry for my bad english.
I get this Game for free (Thanks again).
The Game has interesting game mechanics, graphics are nice to watch.

If you like open world space- RPG / simulation games, then this game is for you.
I will not (yet) gave this game a final rating, but for what i have see in the 2 hours of playing, is very nice.

First, ignore the playtime Steam says I have... everything past the first half-hour or so, I was just getting cards.

So, flying in space is pretty enough, although mouse-based primary controls are a bit odd for a cockpit-view game... but your first taste of that flight being after a story introduction that I can only call inept, followed by several screens in lieu of a tutorial telling you that keys exist for various ship funcitons (without telling you what those keys are), followed by being dumped into a dogfight without any weaponry, well, that easily killed any interest I had in seeing what else this game had to offer. It might be that there weren't any better options out there for this type of game when it was launched 8+ years ago, but I'm sure you can do better now.

im sorry but i really tried to like this game but you dont even start out w/ weapons and on your 2nd mission you need weps to do it and dont even earn enough on mission 1 to buy any .plus navigation to specific spots is freakin hard .had potential but fell way short

I got this game for free (at a giveaway)
Cool game.
At first I just can't finish the first level.
But later it became fun.
I played on another account
9/10

There's something about open-world space simulators that is inherently appealing to me. That's why I think I was more forgiving of Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD from Dreamatrix Game Studios despite having a number of issues with it when it came to stability and execution.

The game itself may be showing its age, but the transformation to HD has helped considerably. While the cut-scenes look dated and pixelated, the in flight models are attractive, and the backgrounds are just filled with interesting things to look at. Ship and creature design are both intriguing and weapons look powerful, if not exotic. What really impressed me were the explosions, with cool looking shock waves and flying debris, and the incredible reflections and distorted images in the cockpit view. The visuals were aided by a good soundtrack and sound effects. Unfortunately, the already weak cut-scenes were hampered further by absolutely dreadful voice acting. It's actually hard to fully fault the acting, however, because so much of the dialogue was ham-fisted or downright schlocky. It's a shame because it's clear the team was trying to tell a heart-wrenching story about family and the horrors of war, but I found myself wanting to skip over it and just continue flying around performing tasks.

Flying around in Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD is fun, but it takes FAR too much setup to get everything working properly, and the game has bugs aplenty. First off there is only partial joystick/controller support, which is frankly unacceptable for a spaceflight game. It's annoying watching enemy craft pull off maneuvers you can only dream of because you need one hand on a joystick for pitch and yaw and one on the keyboard to handle roll, which makes dogfighting more awkward than it should be. Sure, once you get the hang of things, it becomes easier, but flight never feels second nature the way it does is something like the Evochron games. Couple this awkwardness with a glitch that prevented me from firing weapons with my first craft (which later solved itself- I don't know whether the Logitech profiler was acting up or if the game itself was glitchy), and I nearly stopped playing right out of the gate. It also doesn't help that the tutorial is inadequate, and there are no button prompts for actions. I like that the game used context sensitive icons to denote things like docking and initiating trade with various crafts, but it would have been nice for it to also tell me in flight that I needed to hit Enter to perform those actions, or which buttons I needed to jump to a station or wormhole rather than making me consult a guide.

There's a LOT to do in this universe, and I liked the freedom the game gave me to explore/fight/trade/pursue the story as I went along. Unfortunately, that freedom came with a price. While trading itself was fairly straightforward, equipping weapons/upgrading my ship's systems was more problematic. I was able to figure it out, and the system is fairly intuitive once you know what you're doing, but again, it would be nice to have the basics covered in-game. It also would have been nice to know what weapons/systems I could install immediately on my ship and which ones required me to upgrade my systems first. I could always sell back items for full credit, but it wasted time when a simple heads-up display of usable items could have been implemented.

Missions themselves are plentiful and easy to find, but it wasn't always easy to determine just how difficult a mission was. It was nice to see that enemies had a level ascribed to them and that missions were apparently color-coded for ease of completion, but I often found myself hopelessly outclassed by enemies I thought I could defeat. Between not being able to remember (or properly execute) commands due to the incomplete controller support, and the ability of my enemy to absorb simply ludicrous amounts of damage, it made flying missions seem like something I should wait on. I'd rather have the choice of whether I want to be a soldier or a trader, and not have the game feel like it's making me perform actions I don't want (mining, etc.) just so I can level up.

The weird thing is, despite everything I said above, I'm still somehow enamored with Spaceforce Rogue Universe HD. The universe is immense, there's a lot of bang for the buck, and flying can be enjoyable once you work out the quirks. Do I think it's worth the full price? Potentially, if the team is able to patch the rough edges. The game is still charming in its own right, and worth playing, but you will want to either wait for a sale (or patches) and bring plenty of patience.

This game is total piece of garbage. You start the campaign without everything, even without weapons, but you are hunted by pirates and you can't defend yourself. When everyone else (the AI controlled ships) saved your ♥♥♥ you find out that you must fly to another star system to fight another pirates by yourself, without weapons. It is impossible to dock to any station or trade with any trade ship, so you have no chance to purchase and mount some weapons. And what is totally irritating is your ship AI which says you each minute that your ship is damaged and need to be repaired (but your ship hull is on 100%). If you run benchmark test in-game, you will hear this message each minute even there. Now we can add total absence of any tutorial, in fact there are just some hints like: "to spead up pres the SPEED UP button", without information about what key or button is it (so you must hit ESC and look to the controlls menu). So this is another unplayable game from that incompetent people from Dreamatrix.

Ok this game looks a little dated, not the graphics, they're pretty nice, but the HUD, the interface and the lack of contextual menu is a shame too.
BUT keep in mind that this game is from 2007 and so far it is still good.
It' not half a game, the campaign is nice and chasing pirates is great too.
It's not an X² game, but if you like space action game and can deal with not up to date interfaces, go for it, it's a cool game.