![]() The map will usually give you a couple of different ways to go and you can move one point at at time unless you have some warp keys which will let you go further in one turn. The next thing to do is figure out which ship on the map you want to board. I died a few times and even if I got a character that wasn’t as good as my previous one, it didn’t hamper me very much. They will give you things like improved sneak or more defense but you may be detected easier by enemies. Some will be good and others not so much. These prisoners will each have different traits. ![]() To start with your character will be generated at random, and you will get a new one each time you die. The gameplay here is not hard to figure out, but there are a lot of ways to approach each of the randomly generated ships. I would have to say the overall presentation here is one of the best I’ve seen in gaming in a long time. This went along with the cell shaded art style really well. That’s something that is not really done these days and I felt it really gave the game a lot of artistic flair. While the story is simple and a bit silly I loved the comic style it was presented in. One good example of this is you build an ID card only to have it not work without a new computer, and when that’s built it melts down. The tasks it gives you are simple but mostly end in disaster, meaning you end up having to travel further and collect more items. You are doing this at the whim of an HR Computer that promises you freedom when the job is done. You are an inmate that is traveling through space boarding random ships looking for components, fuel, loot and anything else useful. The story of Void Bastards is really simple. Add the fact that this was inspired by two of my all time favorite FPS games, BioShock and System Shock 2, and I knew I had to give this one a shot. I loved the cell shaded art, and the premise of a rouge-like space shooter really appealed to me. ![]() It’s very rare for me to pick up a First Person Shooter, but when a chance to review Void Bastards came along I jumped on it. ![]()
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