Posted on: Saturday, May 5th, 2012
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Gemini Wars Gameplay Preview
Angry Joe takes an exclusive look at gameplay from the upcoming Gemini Wars! I’m so happy to see that this coming month of June looks to be the beginning of a “Rebirth” of Space Empire type strategy games with major and indie titles scheduled to release such as, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Gemini Wars and Endless Space. Gemini Wars is being developed by a comparatively smaller team (only three guys bolstered by freelancers) but separates itself from the pack by making the promise of a deep and engaging single-player story campaign packed with cinematics, something the other titles lack. Check out its surprising progress so far!
The best part is that Camel 101 is planning to add Multiplayer and Skrimish modes as FREE updates to the game shortly after releasing (giving them time to implement feedback from the main game into the new modes)!
What’s Working So Far…
The Story. While the cinematics might not match the quality of some larger studios they do the job, setting up each mission and provide a lot of background fluff to give more purpose to your battles.
The Music. This soundtrack is beautiful, with calm almost eerie music during building & researching to the dynamic swelling of battle music when enemies appear on radar it surpasses even bigger budget games. Well done.
Simple Resource Management. With only credits, tech and unit cap resources to worry about focus can be placed firmly on establishing mining footholds and wrestling control of vital systems from your enemy.
What Needs Improvement…
The Camera. The battle cam and normal gameplay cam need to be more flexible as its difficult to get just the right view.
Ship Models. While the backgrounds look great, the ship models are a bit less detailed and inspired looking than its competitors.
If you like what you see and want to support this indie developer let us know! Vote your support on the Upcoming Games Page.
More Information on the game can be found at the Gemini Wars Website.
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Looks Ok, I Love “Home World 2″ With “Complex Mod” Just Hope they make the next one
although sins is good enough
Looks pretty good…..Hmmmm. I’m still waitting for SoSE.
If you want space combat you might want to check out Skyjacker over on kickstarter. It looks really good and could use some support.
this game is a cppy from Star Wars Empire at War
Yeah, it is most definitely not. As he said, it’s more like Sins of a Solar Empire. While Empire at War was neat in the aspect of controlling fleets of star destroyers, the battles themselves felt very small scale. It looked decent, but it was mostly brainless with little to know strategy required. You could just buy a bunch of ISDs and keep loading them into the fight.
Like I said, not Empire.
I really can’t wait this game for it to Release! I miss playing this kind of games that was made back the, Particularly Freespace 2. And I’m just 13 and I enjoy the immersion this genre gives.
“Infinity: Quest for earth” is what I am waiting for,
newtonian physics, twitch control, seamless planetary landing, the whole galaxy with billions of stars, no stupid aliens… and it will be a mmo, EVE will be blasted to dust when this jewel comes out
In the same independant type of game, I recommend cheking out Space Pirates and Zombies (SPAZ), an other space combat game, made by… Two guys!
Totally crazy stuff
Looks cool…. Hey Angry Joe… Speaking of Sins of a Solar Empire, are you going to be reviewing Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion?
The 4x game i’m still waiting for is X: Rebirth
X: Rebirth isn’t a 4x strategy game. 4X stands for Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate. There is no expanding in the X games as you don’t colonize planets. The X games aren’t strategy games either, so there’s no real conquest. The closest you get to extermination is ship to ship combat through your travels. The X series is more of an economic simulation or a sandbox space game.
I wouldn’t discard the X series as 4X games, at least not the latest editions. What do you do in the X games? First off you explore, then you expand with basses, factories and you create your private army, you exploit racial weaknesses and the market, then you can exterminate if you wish to do so. This is of course all optional, and you don’t have to play it that way. Just because it’s first person doesn’t mean it can’t be a 4x game.
Yeah I agree. 4X usually refers to strategy games, but you could say that the X-series is a 4X space shooter.
yea this looks kinda like a modern day version of galaga.Im a huge fan of sci fi but great sci fi is few and far between.be it movies or games.I discount any and all “oh the big alien monster is gonna eat me” as being sci fi.thats only typical holiwood shock horror.
If this costs 10$ thenmaybe….maybe after that this isnt even remotely desireable.
I know that this isn’t related to the video, but why no more movie reviews? I liked those.
Seems a bit pricy for something created by 3 people (and not being that special of a game)
the game look very cool this week and will going to buy it the alpha version…continue your excelent work camel team you with this game refresh the genre
Definitely looks like it’s a great game. And yeah, definitely going to have to pre-order it. I think the price is actually pretty fair, considering it’s 3+ people and pretty sure it’ll recycle back into the company.
Hey Joe, have you ever played Space Ranger -series? Besides normal space combat it also contains optional RTS style planetary battles or old school text-game adventures besides normal transport stuff from place A to B as a different type of missions you can get. The originals are a bit older now but I think they are going to remake the first one. They are both on Steam though I’d recommend the Space Rangers 2: Reboot since it’s newest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Rangers_2:_Dominators
lol, skrimish, Joe actually said it couple of times, this is ekspecially weird to hear from pro game reviewer.
Isn’t it called SkIrmish mode rather than SkRimish mode? The hell is skrimish?
You also consider that the game is completely self-funded. I think those $ 40 will serve to keep the game alive and updated, and maybe a little gain for the studio ( I hope so!). By the way, the game looks really good to be an independent production. Maybe AAA + companies should learn from these guys as the passion and desire to do, can overcome the economic difficulties of developing a good game!!
40$ for this game is soo much . The really have to re consider of the price so they can gather more people & player`s .
Being such a small group (3+some freelancer helpers u said) gotta give them credit, i would never buy this but they did a great work
$40 bux is too much..
This looks like it has potential, might buy it just to see what comes after ^^
Looks nice, but bloody hell they want a lot of money for it, I think I’ll wait for some reviews before I drop $39 on it.
it looks rather Sexy
Damn that looks good
nice