Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

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There are a lot of good ideas in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and it certainly looks like a great tactical space combat game. But it struggles to build that into a coherent whole, making it tough to recommend unless you’re willing to utterly dedicate yourself to fully comprehending the inaccessible systems of its combat.

I've spent a few days playing Battlefleet Gothic at this point, and I don't have all that many criticisms. I've a few small complaints, such as wishing the camera would pull out farther, and I wish the it was easier to see the specialties of ships as you're selecting them, but almost everything about BGA is impressive. It captures the essence of its inspiration while faithfully translating the experience into the digital, it's got an attractive and stark aesthetic, and I'm still giddy over the one time I rammed a battlecruiser through three frigates and destroyed them all without stopping.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is an excellent space real-time strategy game that never gets boring and keeps surpirising you with every new mission.

Those gripes I’ve outlined are minor as Battlefleet Gothic: Armada conveys the suitably epic universe of Warhammer 40K in an RTS that offers decent depth and a great atmosphere. The campaign is great and if you allow the game to punish you for defeat it’ll bring more impact and consequence to the later battles. Sure, the story is ridiculous but it’s what you’d expect of a 40K and it fits the genre perfectly. With a multiplayer that has as much nuance and depth as each ship you can man...

I don’t think I’ll forget how playing through Battlefleet Gothic: Armada’s campaign felt. That’s not to say the multiplayer is negligible; far from it as, for many people, it’s where the real value of the game lies. It’s just that from the way the ships look, to the voice acting, sound design and cutscenes, everything is exactly how a Warhammer 40k title should be. The people over at Tindalos Interactive have done their homework, thus providing an excellent Warhammer 40k experience and the first proper 40k game we’ve had in quite a while. Furthermore, they’ve promised continued support, especi...

The already impressive number of productions set in the Warhammer 40K universe has just been augmented with another interesting title. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada – a digital rendition of a 1999’s board game – is some truly good tactical RTS.

Now as much as I enjoyed the thematic nature of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, I did tire of the RTS battles. As I played through the campaign, I found myself getting bored and just wanting access to the next tid bit of story. I can tell when I’m playing a game whether I dislike it due to design flaws or that it simply isn’t my taste and in this case it is the latter. I personally found the combat tedious and cumbersome, but that isn’t to say others won’t relish the slow paced, methodical battle of attrition.

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Warhammer and fans of epic space battles alike will be delighted to plan and conquer deep space in all its RTS glory.

The game’s visuals are stunning, with the game being powered by Unreal Engine 4, it should be no surprise. The details of each ship is a delicious sight to behold, even the Ork’s floating piles of garbage can be admired for the attention on the detail of each model. It should be noted however that the game’s anti-aliasing is horrible and setting it to maximum often leaves a blurry mess. Toning it down to a lower though shows all the details much more clearly and to some will be much more acceptable than a game without aliasing. Sound is rich, which cannons have a good boom and sharp cracks of ...