If you could just use WASD to move your character then the whole game would be immediately, dramatically improved. The main issue with this awful control set-up is that the level design itself actually lends itself quite well to it, with explosives everywhere and decent physics driving the whole thing. This goes doubly for all the multiplayer co-op matches. You shoot and you reach one of two possible outcomes, so while the combat is very, very pure, it’s also very, very dull. The enemies mostly move at the same speed as you, so there’s no running away and the fact that you can’t move and shoot means there’s no flanking, no circle strafing, no anything. You press H to heal yourself if you get low on health and you carry on until you die or they die. The enemy AI is basically limited to either running at you and hitting you with a sword, or standing where they are and shooting you. You right click them, holding the button down or hammering it like mad, one by one. You enter a room and there are a bunch of monsters around. Your weapons are universally submachine guns, rocket launchers and laser beams, so the fact you can’t move and fire means that essentially you have no tactics whatsoever. The problem is that this isn’t Dungeon Siege, this is Space Siege. You’d have to stop to swing your sword or raise your bow. Now, if this were Dungeon Siege then that would make sense. You click to move to the other side of the room and if you spot an enemy on your way and try to attack him then you’ll end up stopping where you are. You can move or you can shoot and no amount of keyboard binding or pounding will change that. Which is the first and major problem with the game, since it constantly prevents you from doing two things at once. There are keyboard shortcuts to use your various skills and abilities, to change your weapons and instruct your robotic accomplice, but most of the game is controlled with the mouse. Your character is moved by where you want to go pressing the left mouse button and told to attack by clicking the right mouse button.Įssentially, control-wise that’s it.

Starting from the beginning, Space Siege is played as a third person, mouse-driven RPG game.

They are quite simply the weak point which brings the entire game tumbling down like a successfully completed level of Boom Blox. GameplayThe game mechanics of Space Siege are, to put it bluntly, unimmersive, uninteresting and undefendable on the face of it.

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