Stargate: Timekeepers Review (Ashta)
Come on you apes. You wanna live forever?
Wrong franchise.
So. I love stealth strategy. I loved RTS since i discovered C&C in the 90s. Blown away. Then came Warcraft 2 which i loved. I loved those games but they were missing something. I then found Commandos. HOWLEE SHMIDT. Blew my mind. Played it and had friends over to play. We group completed it and it was too good.
Fast forward 20+ years and i see this game called "Shadow Tactics". I check it and fell into the groove. Loved it. Instant fan. Then Desperados 3 came out. Played the poop out of it too....completed it, 100% it with the add ons too. Akios Choice came...oh yeah, i was hooked...and Shadow Gambit came and FUN YEAH!
Mimimi was my jam in devs. Loved them. I dipped my toes and loved Partisans and others.
I am a huge nerd. Grew up reading Magician by Raymond E Fiest, spawned to SF and read all of Heinlein, into anything Scalzi, Laundry files, Murderbot, Bobiverse and others. I grew up watching cheezy Sci Fi films and TV series like "Automan", "Highway Man", "Knight Rider", "Battlestar", "Star Trek"and "Starwars", "Sliders" and of course the whole "Stargate"Series(Ha....MacGyver in Stargate? YEEES). I went to see the movie in the cinema and loved the series, with Atlantis being my fave with this unknown actor called Jason Momoa.
So my love of all these combined for the game. I was hooked, wishlisted it and downloaded the demo. Bought this whole game to post this review.
Jank.
Crap.
No.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (in a Cap. Kirk yelling at the death of a fellow friend kind of way)
Controls are shite and do not hold a candle to other aforementioned Steal Strategy games. The premise is ok i guess, but the execution is abysmal. The AI is retarded. You knock them out and they come to life a while later with no idea they were knocked out and act as if they were never unconscious. The button placement and mouse clicks are all backwards compared to any Mimimi or other game. The AI act like retards if they find a downed body. It is all just jank.
No.
Wait for the patched, wait for the fixes....do not buy now,...but thats the catch....if there is no interest in this game....then no future fixes will happen.
They should have play tested and bug fixed for another 6 months. Maybe they ran out of money. Either way...if you want a "Alpha version" of a good game. Get this, expect loads of jank. Otherwise...do not reccomend. (i think i may refund but may also not, to try to give the devs a chance to improve... and play later)
Devs: Splurge and get the actors to play the characters....Amanda Tapping is screaming for the female role etc etc.
The graphics are nice for the game and the world is nice. But not really Stargate....could be anything really....
Graphics/Word: 9/10
Voice: 6/10
Stargate: 3/10
Controls: 2/10
Jank: 10/10