Distant Worlds Reviews

[taltamir]

remember when gamespot fired that guy for giving a bad score to a shitty game that was advertised heavily on their site?
http://kotaku.com/328244/gamespot-edito ... nch-review

as for why you need to create a separate login for the forums... show me where you use your forum login for buying games? it is completely standard to keep the two separate.

as for why it isn't advertised... advertising costs a lot of money.

[Anthropoid]

What kinda games do you like echn111? If you like complex strategy games that are hard to master (and often hard to LEARN!), you'll probably become a Matrix fan. If not, you probably won't like their stuff.

They don't need to advertise. They don't have fat cat corporate backers breathing down there necks [:D] (You guys don't have fat cat corporate backers breathing down your necks yet do you? You didn't 'sell out' to the man yet did you?")

Matrix has more ancestral linkage to hex-map military board games than to arcade games; its not a huge market so advertising probably wouldn't necessarily serve anyway.

[Webbco]

I have no interest whatsoever in hex-map board games, but DW is totally different.

I would even argue that DW isn't THAT difficult to learn...it's just you can't rush into it as quickly as you can with mainstream RTS games.

The automation feature, despite certain issues that are being worked on, opens DW up to a much wider audience than that of many of the other matrix games (in my opinion).

[SeanD]

Added the Eurogamer score!

[SeanD]

Updated with two new reviews!

[SeanD]

Added some more reviews - and another award!

[SeanD]

Added yet another awesome review...

[Gertjan]

Congrats!

[SeanD]

Added a 9/10 from PC4War!

[Gertjan]

Another review on Gamesquad:

http://www.gamesquad.com/review/distant-worlds

[unclean]

Out of curiosity, why doesn't Distant Worlds have more reviews? Seems like it's a bit under received, even in the world of niche strategy games.

[Data]

to be honest i like that this game started and maybe still is the underdog...the big boys will never see it coming
altough from what i've read here and there we're gaining momentum fast

[SeanD]

Added the PC4WAR take on ROTS.

[Data]

aha, another small step for humanity but a biig one for us [:)]

[SeanD]

Added a very positive GameSquad review of ROTS. Right before the Legends release no less!

http://www.gamesquad.com/review/reviewe ... n-shakturi

8.5

Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi is a worthwhile expansion to a solid 4X strategy game. Really, there is no reason why a dedicated DW fan should pass it up.

[Data]

Good timing [:)]

[SeanD]

Added the first Legends review - 9/10!

http://www.gamesquad.com/review/reviewe ... ds-legends

[Grotius]

Very nice review! He pointed out a few things I'd overlooked. Good press for a deserving game.

[SeanD]

Added a shining Space Sector review of Legends. And I quote:

What are you waiting for? Buy it now!

http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2011/12 ... ds-review/

[Grotius]

Sean, you might as well quote the preceding sentences too. It doesn't get much better than this.

If Master of Orion 2 was the 4X space strategy gaming reference of the nineties, then Distant Worlds Legends is the 4X space strategy gaming reference of the early XXI century. What are you waiting for? Buy it now!

Congrats to CodeForce and Matrix on another well-deserved rave review.