| Review : |
I used to mod this game a lot, and it was a lot of fun both playing the game and modding it. Though Armada 2 was supposedly more easily moddable (with the ability to add more races without using weird ways of doing it), Armada 1 is just as easy to mod. As far as gameplay, the game was pretty fun to play and its replay value was quite high, seeing as I for one played it for years until moving on to other games in other venues such as Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. I still find myself playing this game a lot online. Of course, you've got to like RTS (Real-Time Strategy) games to really appreciate how good Armada really is. It has a lot of flaws, like the scales of ships (how does a Defiant become 680 meters long) and some of the stock textures look kinda...lame. There's some good mods out there that make the ships half-decent to look at. A brand new fully-textured version of the Nebula never hurt either. So given some of the flaws with that, I'd give it a 4 out of 5. The 4 is for the fun factor and replay value for the most part. And in its day, Armada 1 and 2 had good graphics. The down part is the scaling, some stock textures and models that literally stink, modding eventually has its limits (as do all things but that can be overlooked), and the physics of some of the ships is flawed (if a Sovereign actually turned that fast and its inertial dampers were disabled, then the crew would be a puddle on either side of the ship's bulkheads). But since the crew seem resistant to inertia, that can be overlooked too. An all in all good game. Plenty of enjoyment! |
