Star Control: Origins - PC Game Review

Star Control: Origins is based/inspired on the Star Control series, from the 80s. I played Star Control II quite a bit, and really enjoyed the battles and the variety of ships.

But I found almost nothing to like here. The UI is terrible in many minor ways.

Landing on planets by bumping on them seems like a poor choice, and sometimes you will just leave a planet and it will show the land screen again (why not just use the mouse???). You get missions on distant planets. How much fuel will that take? It is a mistery, the UI won't tell you. Have you gone into a planet/moon already? If so you better remember it because the UI will not show you... And more other minor annoyances.

The lander part of the game is probably the worse. It is just annoying and time consuming. You mostly just drive around getting resources and occasional interesting stuff, and shooting at rocks for more resources. It's just not fun.

Even the battle seems to be less fun than Star Control II. The only thing this game got is better graphics.

I can't recommend this in any way, even for fans of the original series.

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