The game basically allows you to take two forms of interaction with your environment. They have the coolest and most badass ships.) Graphics-Light, Yet Feature-Rich (Hint: if you get the chance early enough, always say yes to the Polaris missions. (I’m looking at you, Skyrim.) You can choose to align yourself with one of at least seven different factions within the game. The beauty of this game is that, although it is basically an open-ended, open-world game, there is still sufficient structure and pace to it that you never find yourself killing time by walking aimlessly through a beautifully rendered but ultimately completely pointless universe. You can opt to take on the branching missions that are strewn throughout the game. You can become a brigand once you get enough money. You can choose to be a charter transport pilot, ferrying passengers from one system to another. In this game, you can choose to be a simple trader, buying low and selling high. It is at one and the same time a game about space exploration, trading, combat, alliances, technology, and (relatively) open-world dynamics. This game, like its predecessors, defies easy categorisation. All you have to do is figure out which keys on your keyboard do what, and then you’re off… to victory, or death. You are given the option early on to land and take a brief tutorial, but you don’t really need it the game pretty much explains itself. You start this game as a lowly shuttlecraft pilot, opting to seek freedom and fortune among the stars. Originally created for Apple computers, the games were ported over to Windows when it became clear that gamers were enthusiastic about the product and wanted to play it on something other than a platform originally designed to make sneering hipsters even more insufferably smug. A Galaxy Ripe For The TakingĮscape Velocity: Nova is the third (and, sadly, so far final) game in the EV series developed by Ambrosia. The Escape Velocity series, developed by Ambrosia Software, is one happy exception to this rule. But looking back today as an adult, it’s hard to think of too many games from that time which have developed into truly great, interesting, fun game series that you could actually look forward to experiencing again. Those shareware CDs were a great way to get broke-ass teenagers to badger their parents to pay good money for what were, at the time, cutting-edge games. A few truly classic games released during that period used shareware and freeware as a way to give gamers a taste of what to expect: several great FPS games from the period, such as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, were able to drum up plenty of hype through this approach. Most of these games were much of a muchness: easy to play, easy to forget, job done. Back in the mid to late 90’s, it was common practice for gaming magazines to distribute basically “free” games as “shareware” to readers through the CDs that accompanied the big glossy spreads sold at the local newsagent.
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