I found the game alot of fun. It seems similar to me to Starcraft I. I am playing through the first time on "Easy" setting. The graphics are nice. The soundtrack is pleasant. There are several types of missions that you can accept. There is a storyline to discover through logs you find on the planets.

In the easy mode (not sure if this will change in harder modes) there is usually one creature nest which will spawn new creatures to attack your base until you destroy it. There is always one Scavenger drop ship which will spawn Scavenger units to attack your base until you destroy it. The groups that attack you get more difficult to defeat as you move from Level 1 to higher level missions. I am doing level seven missions now. They go up to level 10 to complete the game. There is always a junk pile somewhere on the map where you can find two pieces of equipment. Some Scavenger units also drop technology and there is a scavenger base somewhere on each map where you can loot some additional items after you defeat the Scavenger owners. The scavenger "enhanced" equipment is better than what you can buy at the store.

The map starts out covered by fog of war and you uncover it by exploring with your Prospector unit or a created Bot. You can create a variety of normal and heavy bots. As you progress in levels as a prospector, building and unit blueprints become available for purchase in the store and you also get them as loot in the missions. As you increase in level you can upgrade your prospector rig to make it more formidable in combat. You can also buy shield and health recharge units from the store which allow you to fix and restore shields to your units in the midst of combat.

I just find it a very fun game to play. I plan to play through all the missions again on the normal mode at least. I only gave it four stars because there is a alot of repetition. The missions all fall into a dozen or so categories. The maps are pretty uniform in types. Sometime a river divides the field in two. The things normally found in a scenario are usually found around the edges or corners of the map. After you get a feel for playing you can usually guess about where the drop ship is from the direction attacks are coming from. Anything you need to access in a mission will be guarded by scavenger units.

The variety of different bots and defensive structures you can build are interesting. You can also build a structure which allows you to upgrade your heavy bots to make them quite devastating but it costs alot of minerals and fuel to do all of the upgrades. There are ground and air units.

After my prospector unit was upgraded to a lethal level, I was able to take most things down singlehandedly without the help of other created bots. The key was to take alot of shield and health restoration along and work it strategically so I was not fighting everything at once.

I have had no problem with the game crashing. It seems to have been well tested or maybe it is an older game and the bugs have been worked out. You can do a mission in 30 minutes to an hour so it is great if you want to play something that does not take all day. I think it is a great game and recommend it highly!

I'm running:

AMD 2400+ Single Core

1 Gig Ram

Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 512MB

Win XP SP3 32-bit

Happy to say that this game runs perfectly clean and smooth with default settings.

I've played roughly about six missions and just to summarize so far the game has not been necessarily about building one gigantic base to attack another but building up small outposts to create a large enough army to make it to the next to get around the map and complete main objectives like taking down large enemies, repairing structures and so on.

Ideally you need to use your main mech unit to scan rocks in the vicinity to see if they provide ore which is your main resource.

Once mined, using mech or mining robots, you also need to find fuel pools around the environment to siphon from.

The most original feature is the game's shop, in between missions, where in you can purchase upgrades for your mech or sell upgrades that you found on the field (usually by searching wreckage) and spending money to unlock new units, structures and parts for your mech.

You earn funds by completing missions. Both during and for the mission you also earn experience points which can be used to level up a handful of your mech's main attributes.

Well worth the ten dollars and is unique enough to be entertaining even for those who may have burnt themselves out on the RTS genera.

This game is a good bit of fun! The visuals are solid, the gameplay is entertaining, and the replayability makes me sure I will be playing this game for a long while yet. Between mechs, adventuring, and looting, how can you go wrong?