Review for Starship Corporation. PC game, the video game came out on 03/05/2018
Free the capitalist in you! Don't stick to old concepts like workers' rights, fair wages and free health care. Take advantage of all the exploitable to the last drop. Starship Corporation it's not exactly the prototype of the video game about capitalism, but it tries.
At the command of your own space corporation you will have to increase revenues, beat the competition and create ships that are unassailable from both a commercial and military point of view. You have what it takes to Wolf of Wall Street? Then put yourself to the test with this management software that does not think of anything other than management, in fact.
One of the strong points, if not the only real strength of Starship Corporation, it is the careful simulation of the economic and financial dynamics possible in space, in the distant future when the Earth is no longer the only planet inhabited by our species. Routes far beyond the solar system radiate throughout the Milky Way and rivers of money flow into the coffers of those who are ready to grab the opportunity, but beware: space is not just the place that generates the big profit or added value of your company; space is also an extremely hostile place, where pirates and smugglers move in search of easy loot.
To overcome this inconvenience, you can create the design of your company's spaceships yourself. Obviously, depending on the class you choose to build, you will have access to a certain type of scheme. It will be up to you to decide how much to make the hull resistant, how many and which defensive armaments to insert and which modules necessary for storage to place in the interior space of the vehicle.
Another factor to consider will be i contracts that we can accept in the spaceports. We will not only deal with trade but also with transport, exploration and warfare missions. But don't fool yourself: you won't do these things to get fame, glory and territory like in any Total War, but you will do it for the vile money. Only and only for the money.
By itself, Starship Corporation ended up here. Except that during our experience we had to deal with several problems with which the game presents itself to the end user. Texts that do not fit in the infoboxes, characters and logos shelled, little care for the HUD. These are all elements that affect a final grade that could potentially be high. It must also be said that the final cost of this title is by no means dishonest and playing that money is worth almost all of it.
What is disappointing is the very poor longevity (unless you are a chronic enthusiast of management software, but - even in that case - you will certainly turn up your nose for the event management chosen by the developers), the little graphic care (which leaves almost everything to the imagination outside of a grainy star map and schemes of spaceships already seen, for example, in that of Polaris Sector and far better realized) and, above all, the sufficiency with which it was thought to insert a tutorial that more than being a help, it turns out to be an obstacle to acquiring the knowledge necessary to spend a few hours of leisure on Starship Corporation.
Beautifully crafted 3D models mix with completely flat spaceship schemes while the sci-fi element is reduced to a joke when photos of random people such as portraits of pilots and other crew are placed. Too much enough. So much so that the title is just enough but - and this must be said - if you do not have a particularly high-performance computer and do not ask too much from Starship Corporation, the title may be for you.
Could more have been done? No, more had to be done.
► Starship Corporation is a Management-type game developed by Coronado Games and published by Iceberg for PC, the video game was released on 03/05/2018
