Publisher's Description
From Positech Games:
Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games : The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going zap!, ka-boom!, and ka-pow!. In GSB, you put your ships together from modular components, arrange them into fleets, give your ships orders of engagement and then hope they emerge victorious from battle (or at least blow to bits in aesthetically pleasing ways).
Gratuitous Space Battles aims to bring the over-the-top explodiness back into space games. This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about the ships you design and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. These gratuitous space battles are not won by plucky heroes with perfect teeth, but by the geeky starship builders who know exactly what ratio of plasma-cannons to engines each ship in the fleet will need.
What's new in this version: Version 1.45 improves balance: Shield Support beam being drastically re-balanced with lower beam rate and capacitor, and only able to have one beam at a time on each shield. Also now auto-selects the lowest friendly shield available.
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"fantastic, deep addictive space strategy"
Version: Gratuitous Space Battles demo 1.24
Pros
Very original
Incredible graphics
Great performance on my PCCons
Nothing bad about it IMHO
Summary
Well wortha try if you like strategy games of any kind, or if you enjoy tower defense style gameplay, but wish it could be done with spaceships :D
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"Excellent, addictvie and deep strategy game"
Version: Gratuitous Space Battles demo 1.24
Pros
If you like games like galactic civilisations this is definitely the right sort of game for you. It's very nice to look at too, even on a really old PC. of all the games I play on my PC, this onr runs the fastest and looks the best
Cons
I like everything about this game, to be honest!
Summary
Try it now, this game is definitely worth seeing for yourself. especially the REALLY big battles...
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