Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock

If you're a fan of turn based strategy or Battlestar Galactica, this is a must. The devs certainly put a lot of effort into making this a believable experience set in the BSG universe. Everything from stellar sound effects and music to BSG style combat camera AI. It all works great. The bulk of the game is in setting up your ships actions before executing them. A simple mis-calculation can end in disaster.

With the exception of one poorly acted, over the top character, all the cast do a great job. The music is exceptional, so much so there is a great interest in buying the music from the fans but Slitherin, the publisher, does not seem interested in releasing even a digital version.

As good as this game is, the devs made some questionable choices which the community is understandably frustrated by.

1. The inability to turn off certain option such as the nebula's, which appeared in a later patch. These can make the strategy sections extremely difficult to make out what is going on and are not required in an already busy environment. 2. The inability to increase the fleet cap which is set to a maximum of 8 ships, one of which is a repair ship. 3. The very restricted options menu, which as stated does not allow for the removal of aspects of the game like nebulas, mines or special weapons. 4. With a relativity early patch came the AI/graphics error were enemy ships could oddly slope off at weird angles and at high speed without obeying the laws of motion. Acting more alike a ships from Startrek than a ship under thruster power in BSG.

Given the relative ease at which these issues could be addressed, it is difficult to understand why an otherwise near perfect game is left with bugs and restrictions that clutter the screen and take the player out of the immersive gameplay.