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My Distant Worlds Review

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My Distant Worlds Review

http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2011/02/distant-worlds-review/
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Finally did the Distant Worlds Review: http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2011/02/distant-worlds-review/

I'm looking forward for your comments on this because I still have the feeling that I must be missing something due to the fact that some people found this game to be great. I simply don't get that. I've been playing Sci-fi strategy games for more than 20 years now, Distant Worlds was one of the worst gaming experiences I had since Master of Orion 3 (in terms of sci-fi strategy). 

I also find that there seems no to be middle ground here, people love it or hate it. It would be interesting to find out why.

Cheers

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting EmersonPF, reply 23

Quoting scratchthepitch, reply 22I have not tried DW, though I am familiar with SSI/Matrix. I recently downloaded and tried the Steel Panthers edition they offer, Steel Panthers:World At War, and the game is garbage. Great ideas very, very poorly implemented, as with the original. There is no AI, just very cheesy cheat codes. Basically the same as the original Steel Panthers with all the bogus unit tech details and cheats instead of a competent AI. From what I've seen about DW, it doesn't seem like these guys have mended their ways very much.
To be fair, while Matrix is the publisher of DW, they aren't the developer.  Nor are they developer (SSI, as you point out) of Steel Panters.  Code Force - a small New Zealand based development team - wrote and continues to work on Distant Worlds.  Saying that your experience with Steel Panthers has bearing on DW is like claiming that your experience with Demigod has bearing on your experience with Sins of a Solar Empire.  Same publisher, but completely different games, completely different development teams.
End of EmersonPF's quote

 

My bad, then. Since DW is at Matrix I assumed it was their baby. Also, DW seems to use a similar type of game engine as the SSI Great Naval Battles series, from the 90's, I thought maybe Matrix upgraded that engine and applied it to a space game.