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Crapplestar Craptacular, More Like

By Alec Meer on October 25th, 2007.

The Battlestar Galactica remake is just made for games, with its compelling jump-cutty, eerily quiet space combat and signature ships. Fortunately, people have done so, for free and very well indeed. There’s the Homeworld 2 mod here, and the Freespace 2 mod here.

And today the official game’s been released, available exclusively online. It’s $20 (or £13), which doesn’t sound like much, but every penny spent will feel like a knife in the kidney if you do splash out. Fortunately the demo’s enough to make that pretty obvious. Forlorn impressions follow. Read the rest of this entry »

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