Customer Reviews

Space Hack

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It's not ground breaking but for 20 bucks who's complaining. There's lots of maps, loads of aliens and big weapons. No multiplayer :( but that's ok considering the price tag.

If truth be told, isometric shooting games are not easy to mess-up. I mean, what is there not to like? Ever since ZAX:THE ALIEN HUNTER, such games offer an array of weapons and upgrades, a multitude of enemies and a variety of maps that will keep you zapping until the early hours of the morning!

This is a worthy "successor": the graphics are better (still 2D but with a lot of 3D effects), the weapons have been enriched - and there are numerous distinctive RPG components that you will greatly enjoy!

My only complaint: instead of designing the walls and environments in a unobtrusive way, they get in the way - but the mouse-wheel can rotate the camera for you to follow your character's line of sight; and this can get pretty disorienting, even after one gets the hang of it.

RECOMMENDED!

A great semi mindless Diablo style romp set in space. You only have one choice of character but you have choices in the other RPG aspects - nothing too deep though. A great place to learn about RPGs - a nice break from fantasy realms- a nice game to take your mind off stuff and enjoy bashing alien insect life. Was fun. Single player only I believe.
You wont need a walk through : )

Space Hack is definitely a game for hard-core action RPG fans. All I've been doing for half the game is blasting three different colors of lasers at aliens. It has the weapons upgrades, the armor, the various weapons with various advantages... but all in all, it is quite a disappointment.

I don't know if it's MY system, but I'm in "Biosphere Nine" out of fifteen. The game crashed at least 25 times so far. I downloaded the patch for it, and it didn't help - the game still crashes, typically during teleports (and teleports are how you travel to home base!!!). Performance is not a problem for me as I have AMD X2 6000+, 2GB O/C Mushkin RAM, 1GB ATI Radeon graphics card, Raptor HDD, etc. so I'm stumped.

After blasting my way through alien species 1 (out of three, apparently), I was very disappointed to find that alien species 2 was very similar: same sounds, same movement, same basic alien "type," etc. What kind of game recycles a dozen sprites like that?? I expect alien species 3 to be the same boring crap that looks a little different.

Lastly, I don't like how there is ONE base to trade, equip, fix, and charge your stuff. Same base to get assigned basic, linear "quests." You're stuck with the same guys who sell you a limited range of items based on your level. Of course, I'm only 3/5 of the way through the game so I might still encounter another base, but I highly doubt it.

Despite the hysterically frustrating crashes and unbelievable repetition, I am a stubborn gamer who MUST beat each game he comes across. Who knows, maybe Hack will actually encounter a worthy foe who doesn't swing/shoot aimlessly, easy as any other sprite in the game to avoid.

The aliens do not respawn, leaving no room for blasting around to increase your level. Either you kill what's there to gain the XP, or you don't level up. It leaves no reason to visit previous biospheres. I also get the feeling that the game is not random, either - each alien has a predisposed item to drop (if any) as well as each ovum/cocoon which acts like destroyable treasure chests. I might be wrong.

In conclusion, if you want a mindless blasting RPG, this is your game. It can consume you till the wee hours in the morning, as another reviewer suggested. You're going to need patience to get through this game. Not for kids.