Rigonauts: Broadside is the fantastic building battle game from Engient. Snap together the ultimate vessel and send your crew of Hobs into battle. With a well designed ship and a clever plan, your crew will smash and blast past an assortment of strange and dangerous foes. Of course no single plan survives the enemy and each tactical tweak will bring you closer to victory.
Each of the game’s levels requires you to outfit your ship with enough offensive and defensive materials to ensure victory against the enemy’s ship before it destroys yours. The game gives you many different weapons to choose from, such as cannons and lasers and defense materials made out wood, metal, and even bone, each of which is weak to certain ammo. The game never fully explains what each weapon does, how it behaves, or the benefits of using some materials over others, so you are basically left to experiment and try things out on your own. Unfortunately, despite enemy variety and a plethora of materials that become available as you progress through the game, we found that most of the 30+ levels can be quickly cleared by building the same rinse-and-repeat ships. Some of the most difficult enemies can be defeated by abusing this method, so it takes away from the fun of building different ships.
While there are plenty of things to do to prepare for battle, direct control is out of your hands once you’ve finished building. During battle, all you can do is sit back and watch the action unfold. Being a spectator feels good when you see your design choices pay off, but like any soccer fan watching a match heating up, you might start yelling at the screen when things don’t look good. Thankfully, the game lets you speed up the action or stop and go back to the drawing board whenever you want. Simply watching may not seem like fun, but the objective of the game focuses more on strategizing rather than combat, so the experience is satisfying.
System Requirements
* OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2500+
* Memory: 1 Gb
* Hard Drive: 250 Mb free
* Video Memory: 256 Mb
* Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 / ATI Radeon X1300
* Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
* DirectX: 9.0c
* Keyboard
* Mouse
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