Space Siege Reviews

The weekend brings us another trio of new reviews for Gas Powered Games’ Space Siege. Jolt Online Gaming starts us off with a 7.3/10:

With so many big-name sci-fi games on the horizon, Space Siege feels more like a stop-gap until something better comes along. For the most part it’s an enjoyable if unremarkable shooter, where satisfying gunplay and alien carnage struggle to overcome a shallow plot and quirky controls. Overall it’s not a bad buy if you’re hard up for entertainment at them moment, especially if you intend to give the co-operative multiplayer a go.

Then Eurogamer with a 5/10:

Space Siege’s timing is fascinating, however – releasing just prior to Too Human on Xbox 360, it’s hard not to draw comparisons, not least because TH’s original plot dealt with very similar subject matter (its title is pretty meaningless since the story switched to Thor-in-space). And also because anyone who thinks TH is a disaster really should play this (and, if it isn’t too impolitic to do so, I’d include Eurogamer’s TH reviewer amongst those people). While riddled with design disasters, Too Human seems like an action-RPG holy grail by comparison to this startling mess. Better yet, play Shadowgrounds: Survivor instead of the both of ’em.

And Giant Bomb with a 3/5:

Space Siege is genuinely fun for a while, but at some point in the dozen-or-so-hour campaign it became more tedious than entertaining, and I just wished there was more depth in the mechanics to hold my interest. A couple of glaring omissions didn’t help matters, such as cooperative play integrated into the campaign (it’s instead relegated to a series of unrelated one-off missions, launched from a really clumsy external application, that don’t really go anywhere) and the ability to remap your controls at all, which, just…well, that speaks for itself. With quality dungeon crawlers like Titan Quest now going for bargain-bin prices, and Diablo III threatening to redefine this specific genre in the relatively near future, Space Siege is hard to recommend at its full asking price, but it’s entertaining enough for hardcore fans of this kind of game, if you can find it at a reasonable discount.