10 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 23.0 hrs on record
Posted: 8 Jan, 2015 @ 10:20am

Promised to be great, but a big let down a few hours in. There's a spark of creativity here, a hint of greatness. It's ambitious, huge and not a bad looker.

But it's no replacement for Forged Alliance Forever, which is what many people were hoping for. Only a handful of units and buildings, just 1 race/faction, awkward controls but worst of all - no "experimentals"/T4/big stompy things. There's nukes, lasers and planet smashing, but it just doesn't give that feeling of having a Monkeylord ruining everyone's day...

I'm sure that with plenty of development, all of the above can be fixed and this could really be a fantastic game. A modern game that actually uses all the latest hardware improvements (Supreme Commander was made for the 32-bit era) and robust netcode? Hell yes!

Sadly, Uber has a reputation for ending development early (Monday Night Combat, Super MNC) and it looked like PA was gonna get the axe next when they announced Human Resources. A game which, if going by the trailer, also looked amazingly fun, original and creative. Fortunately, it didn't make it past it's Kickstarter phase, otherwise there'd be even less development on PA. I can't help but feel sorry for the people that paid the orignal price on Kickstarter and Steam ($90?)...

tl;dr - not enough content and development time, but looks promising.
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