Reviews - Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Game

Sep 28th, 2011 6 people agree 0 people don't

The good:
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-Polished: good graphics, sound and gameplay
-Challenging enough without being too challenging.
-Translated into a lot of languages and you can add your own.
-Collaborative mission editor, also works while playing!
-DRM-free
-Uses GPLed darkplaces engine (also means you should be able to do lots of modding, additionally to the available in-game editor.)
-Cross-platform. Runs natively (and perfectly) on GNU/Linux.

The singleplayer alone is definitely worth the cheap price.
If you liked the first episode (now training missions since the recent update), the second one is more of the same, but with new enemies and weapons and a lot more missions + the unlockable first person mode (well, third person, but not top-down)
The full game (up to Burning retribution) offers 27 missions in total. Each mission can take from a few minutes up to 1 hour. Never really measured it, but the total single-player gamelength is easily worth the price.

There is also an IRC channel for players at #steelstorm@freenode. Not built into the game (like with Globulation), but a good way of connecting players and devs. ;)

The bad:
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-It is a bit repetitive.
-Not that innovative
-Has no immersive storyline (although care has been taken to add a good briefing to each mission)
-Insults you when you exit the game. Not a big deal, but I am not a fan of it...

The multiplayer is not very active, but it's also not dead. One can still find players, especially during weekends.

Note:
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A new multiplayer mod called Towers of Doom just came out and looks quite interesting, so maybe the multiplayer activity will increase.
It is similar to DotA, i.e. you have weapon shops, AI units, turrets, 2 teams and the goal is to destroy enemy structures, except that it is a shooter.
It also introduces some new interesting weapons with area effect and repair powers and different tank chassis, so the game might get better in the next episodes. Stay tuned! ;)

Apr 23rd, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Good Top-down view Shooting

My Favorite JPN Language
なかなか面白い翻訳にされていて笑える

Apr 8th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Great game, the only thing that disappoints me is the low activity rate at the multiplayer servers. But that does not really kill the fun for me :D
I am really loving this game period

Apr 1st, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

I am stuck at the fourth level :-)

Mar 7th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Disclaimer: Reviewer has only played the demo.

A few setup bugs (desura couldn't find launcher, had to set resolution via text file, first attempt had a framerate of around 5 seconds per frame).

However, once those were fixed, game was quite fun.
Smooth, responsive gameplay.
Decent graphics and sound (although sometimes things were a bit hard to see).

Like many games, there seemed to be no reason "not" to constantly fire (apart from it being noisy).

Also, again like many games, there was no time constraint or sense of urgency.

All up, a decent game. Well above average for linux, too.

Jan 22nd, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

Epic and beautiful game.

Jan 3rd, 2012 0 people agree 3 people don't

Wow, Talk about repetitive. Once again the developers could have spent their talent making something much better rather than another arena sort of shooter.

Dec 26th, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't

The game is a lot of fun and the graphics are Borderlands-like. It can be a bit repetitive though...

Dec 16th, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't

Highly enjoyable, and very well polished. I just wish motorsep would release the DLC content through Desura.

Dec 2nd, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't

Way better than most other games. Specially, considering its price.
Also, it's very fun and last more than a few hours.