Far Gate - The Review

In single player mode you play a former black market smuggler named Jacob Viscero. He has been forced into the service of the Proximan Defense Core (PDC), a volunteer militia protecting mankind's first colony at Proximan Centauri. It is your job to control all of the squadrons as well as mining the asteroid belts for minerals, which are the only real resource in the game. The problem is, when you get to the planet you were supposed to colonize you find it uninhabitable!

At the same time you find that there is a race of space-faring aliens that seem to have laid claim to the area. You must first fight them off before they decimate your space stations while your scientists try to find some way to communicate with them.

As you continue to explore the solar system you find wormholes which lead to many different places. You must unravel the mysteries which lie behind them. In the process you will bump heads with yet another alien race of a crystalline substance. Again, communication is lacking so you shoot first and ask questions later.

While Far Gate has excellent multiplayer functionality, in my honest opinion the game truly shines during the single player campaigns. Heavily story driven and full of discrete mysteries, such as whether the leaders of Earth truly were aware that the planet they sent you to colonize was uninhabitable, make the game an addictive choice for the RTS community.

The top notch graphics and the terrific ambient sound only serve to add to the already encompassing experience which the developers at Super X Studios have set up.

WHAT’S GOOD: Excellent graphics, ambient sound and game play.
WHAT’S BAD: Not much. The music could be better. 

GRAPHICS: 95% (Terrific)
SOUND: 90% (Helps set the scenes)
GAMEPLAY: 95% (I will be playing this one for a while.)
OVERALL IMPRESSION:95%

MINIMUM SYSTEM
Windows 95, 98, ME, or 2000
Pentium II 233 Mhz
64 MB RAM
CD-ROM
350 MB Hard-Drive Space
4 MB Direct3D-compatible Video Card
DirectSound-compatible Sound Card
Keyboard and Mouse

REVIEWER’S SYSTEM 
Windows ME
AMD Athlon 850 MHZ 
384 MB RAM 
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 32 MB AGP
Creative Labs PCI 128
DirectX Version 8.0a
Keyboard
Mouse