![]() ![]() On top of that, you’re going to need to own 50 per cent of the land before you can even think about building one in the first place. In order to progress past a certain point, you’re required to construct Starlink Towers on multiple planets, and these use up a huge amount of resources. There’s other menial objectives you’ll have to complete in the early game, but the back half of the title revolves around building up enough support and backing on each planet to mount an offensive.Īnd unfortunately, it’s here where the game falls into a repetitive trap. ![]() You’ll accomplish all of this from the cockpit of your ship, with exploration on foot strictly forbidden. It’s not too far off from a No Man’s Sky-like experience. Spread across seven different planets, you’ll explore the Atlas star system and everything in-between, recruiting aliens, helping the cause, and ridding each land mass of enemy corruption. Perhaps the aspect that interested us most prior to release was what sort of shape would Starlink: Battle for Atlas take, and what would be the mechanics that hold it together? Now, we can answer that. It’s by the numbers, unlikely to surprise, and playing it particularly safe, but there’s enough there to spur you forwards. ![]() A cheerful bunch of characters support the main mission from your mothership, the Equinox, and it’s their banter and backing that’ll get you through the more tedious moments. It’s a fairly straight-forward plot that acts more as a vehicle to whisk you from planet to planet than anything else, but it works. This kick-starts a rescue mission that will have you exploring the deepest reaches of space in order to rally support, resources, and troops for an assault on the army’s base. Led by illustrious foe Grax, the faction attempts to harness the power of an extinct race known as the Wardens, and your captain is the key to unlocking it. With the vast Atlas star system to rummage through, of course it’s the leader of your own mothership that is taken hostage by the Forgotten Legion. Starlink: Battle for Atlas, from French behemoth Ubisoft, releases alongside a slew of physical space ships, characters, and weapons, but is there a quality experience to be found among all the plastic? Does this space odyssey dare to explore uncharted territory, or is it more of a grounded trip to the moon? Whatever the answer, at least we don’t have to put up with Star Fox! The toys-to-life fad that fuelled the likes of Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions, and Skylanders died out years ago, didn’t it? Apparently not, because here we are in 2018 with a brand new product line on the market. ![]()
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