There's an indi-humble bundle at the moment with some great titles, which can pretty much all by bought for £6. The one that really caught my eye though was Planetary Annihilation.
I have heard about it in the past, but for some reason it past me by. I think it may have been before I had a PC and I accepted I'd never play it. Also, if I remember correctly, the reviewer liked the game, but had various reservations, which sounded plausible at the time.
Anyway, I've now played this game for a couple of hours and it's wooing me with it's insane scale, wonderfully simple graphical elegance and the fact I strapped 3 massive rockets onto a moon and flew it into another planet!
I must admit for the first hour or so I was in old skool RTS (real time strategy) mode, building individual factories and power stations, doing everything one at a time and trying to maximise my resources. I soon released that I'd need to be a lot faster and more efficient with my time, rather than my resources, and within a couple of hours of playing I was building lines of factories, selecting the whole lot and building 100s of tanks, which I'd then casually command to attack another faction on the other side of the planet. It's such a fantastic feeling!
I should briefly explain at this point that Planetary Annihilation is an RTS that allows you to fight across a system of planets. A game may revolve around a single planet, but usually there'll be several with a few moons or asteroid belts thrown in. All these astral bodies are orbiting a star, so there is a day-night cycle, although it's not very perceptible, unless you're admiring the nice graphical details, like lights on the front of units. The game camera takes a little getting used to, but when you zoom out the units and buildings become easily identifiable symbols, which helps greatly for strategic movements.
I think I've played 3 hours in total now. I'm very excited to play more. It's simple, nice to look at and completely bonkers as far as RTSs go. I love it!
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