Tachyon

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Summary: Things that make you go, Huh!
Review: Tachyon is one of those games that intrigues from the mini-movie intro. The graphics and colour schemes are so dazzling that you will instantly get an adrenaline rush. This has to be one of the best rendered games I have come across. The gameplay is simple enough to grasp, there is not much of a learning curve here. Sound,despite the odd shrill female voiceover, is very well done. So why do I rate a mere three stars? I have one rule to playing games. I play for fun and not to be aggravated. Unfortunately Tachyon has a few elements that are sure to tick some (certainly me) off. The game is played out on the "Job Board" where you will be hired to complete contracts ranging from deliveries to disabling "Capital Ships". Some of these quests require the player to repeat multiple times before figuring out how to find the proverbial chink in the armour.Try disabling a Battle Cruiser that outguns you 20-1. Good Luck. That (repetition) gets boring real quick. Each time one has to return to base, rearm and take off again, usually passing through multiple gates before reaching the target. That is a whole lot of lost gaming time. The thrill of the chase and intensity of combat (assisted by the A1 graphics) makes up for the lag. But my biggest complaint is that I have encountered difficulties with the docking controls. On a few occasions I have had to spend up to an hour just trying to dock (despite the autodock feature) because the AI wouldn't acknowledge that I was there. Indeed I had to abandon one quest (Rescue the Persephone) because the auto dock didn't work. It's not just a thing that makes you go ,HUh! but is also very annoying. The quests simply lack the depth and sophistication (lasting little more than 10 min. on average) to overcome the deficiencies. Don't get me wrong I still think this is a great game, graphically speaking, but the repetition and bugs really spoil the fun.

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Summary: Needed info for Tachyon: The Fringe
Review: Tachyon: the fringe is very different from other space-simulators. I used to play prophecy a lot, because I thought the gameplay rocked and it had loads of challange in it. But now this game is even better, you can choose over 10 ships and arm them the way you want (as long as you have enough credits) You can make credits by completing missions or trainings (the trainings give you little credit) And you can even hire some buddies to help you, Their AI ...[stinks] but they don't die quickly. I think there is only one real bugger in this game and that's that you can't skip the auto-pilot scenes and the docking of your ship. Further Í'd advise anyone who reads this to buy it quickly. And of course.....ONLY ON AMAZON...

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Summary: Awesome...
Review: the demo was awesome...played it non-stop...the graphics are incredible and controlling the ship throught the huge space worlds is very easy...the guy from army of darkness does the voice acting and its clear and funny...i recommend it to anyone who likes space-shooters or action

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Summary: huh
Review: the game was cool, annd fun, and neat, and great, and CHEAP!!!!!

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Summary: warning: soundblaster live and/or diamond vid card owners
Review: This game could have been really great - but Nova logic hasreally dropped the ball in a big way here. This game requires a 3-daccelerator card (ok fine), but if you have a diamond stealth series, or a matrox, or a soundblaster live sound card you will simply not be able to run this game at all. it will crash on you and you will not even be able to play it at all or...- if you are lucky you may be able to get it to run without sound. (the diamond monster sound cards crash too). there have been literally hundreds of posts on their web site begging for help and there has been _no_ response from tech suport for over a month now. go check their web site for yourself - it is very revealing...i strongly suggest you save your money until they fix this program.

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Summary: Talk About Space Flight..........
Review: This game has you thinking you're really there, flying and fighting in space. You control your role as the mercenary indepedent star pilot Jake Logan. Awesome weapons upgrades and powerful CPU updates keep you giving the enemy what they have to except. Search asteroid belts for cargo and beam valuable crates aboard your ship. Once you finish the game you'll be eager to play again, it is very addicting. It will keep you busy for quite a while. This just isn't a game, it's an adventure. Who ever designed this game was a total guenius.

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Summary: Talk About Space Flight..........
Review: This game has you thinking you're really there, flying and fighting in space. You control your role as the mercenary indepedent star pilot Jake Logan. Awesome weapons upgrades and powerful CPU updates keep you giving the enemy what they have to except. Search asteroid belts for cargo and beam valuable crates aboard your ship. Once you finish the game you'll be eager to play again, it is very addicting. It will keep you busy for quite a while. This just isn't a game, it's an adventure. Who ever designed this game was a total guenius.

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Summary: Great, Great running game
Review: This game is a lot of fun and the graphics ar top notch to me. True, they are not "Freespace 2" level quality (I don't know of any other game that is) but they work just fine. The ability to choose different story paths adds greatly to the games replay value. Campbell's wisecracks are great.

By The Way: I have a Soundblaster live sound card, a Voodoo 3 card and the game ran fine with absolutely no problems. Update your drivers people!.

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Summary: Like one reviewer said "since the original Wing Commander"
Review: This game is like the original Wing Commander, this game is a joke. made by a child this game is slow it is unstable. this game should be ashamed to call it self a game i rather recommend the Wing Commander IV on DVD or the new Wing Commander Wing Commander Prophecy, Tachyon is immature and childish as I just said, although the idea is good, the people that made this game have not been doing their homework besides from lousy controls and lousy graphics this game just does not work at all i just can't describe my disappointment. i highly recomend that you rather buy Wing Commander IV or Prophecy Gold Edition or just any other Space Sim shoot'em up game.

P.S. the original Wing Commander was for a 386 computer

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Summary: A beautiful and challenging space sim
Review: This game shines and shines beautifully. It has excellent graphics and the controls are beyond superb in handling and response time. The missions are well balanced in their complexity and the computer AI is challenging enough to give you a run for your money.

The reason I gave it four stars is due to two minor flaws. The first is due to long load times. I am running the game on my PIII with 256MB of RAM and it still takes a good 30 seconds to load between missions. The second is the ability of the computer to fly in and out of structures in the game. This gets pretty frustrating in the later missions when you are trying to protect convoys and the like. Both of these are pretty minor as the second happens only on occasion.

Overall this game is an excellent addition to a genre that has lacked depth over the last couple of years. The variety of ships, missions, weapons, and wingmen in which you can complete the game adds a tremondous amount of replay-ability. The multiplayer games are fun and the ability to talk online to your teamates (with a mic)is way too much fun as well. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes flying games or space sims as this is one of the best.