Damn right!
What is it?GSB (I'm not going to write that full name again) is a brilliant, indie-developed Sc-fi strategytacticactionwhatever game. You design your space ships from scratch, then position them on a map, give them orders and let them do their work. You can't influence the behaviour of your ships after the mission started, which makes it even more important to give them proper orders. Designing ships is brilliant, and it's really made well.
Description from the official website:
GSB is the ultimate space strategy game from UK indie developer Positech Games. It's 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 strategy games. The game is for everyone who has watched big space armadas battle it out on TV and thought to themselves 'I could have done a much better job as admiral'. This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about what 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.
MediaLots of screens and videos, for more go to
http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/index.html
November 6th promoGratuitous Space Battles - Gameplay VidGratuitous Space Battles - Maxed Out HD PC GameplayFor more info, screens, videos, Demos and buy link go to
GSB's official website.
Now go and download the demo. >:O
