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If you enjoyed games such as Gimbal, Beat Hazard, Battleships Forever, Starscape or even Asteroids!, you'll probably love this.
To break it down, Defect is a 2.5d top-down space ship shooter. You build and customise ships, blow up space pirates, become the victim of a string of mutinies and hunt down your old crews!
The game features pretty much endless possibilities when it comes to creating your ship, with a very simple and robust building interface. Each ship is broken down into components, each of which is placed by you. Balance the ship's power and crew usage against weapons, armour, maneuverability and speed, but beware - At the end of each level, you'll be facing down the ship you used in the previous one! Blasted mutineers.
It also has a dynamic soundtrack which is defined by the components used in your ship's construction and its condition in combat which is pretty cool.
In combat, each component of your ship can be damaged to the point of being disabled; losing engines will compromise your speed or ability to, well, move in general, destruction of the crew compartment will have you spinning in circles. But fear not; Destroying enemy vessels will net you scrap which can be used to repair destroyed components.
You can also take "direct control" of any component on your ship, engines will become more powerful, weapons can be fired manually (and aimed, if they're turrets), armour will become stronger. All these things are important when it comes to destroying pirate scum.
The free demo is on [URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/384510"]Steam[/URL], and the game is being funded through [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/749930024/defect"]Kickstarter[/URL]
I'm not going to do it any more justice by typing words, so have some screenshots:
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This reminds me a bit of S.P.A.Z. too. Looks cool
It's [I]really[/I] fun, that's pretty much all I can say. Apparently there will be a sort of quasi-multiplayer mode where you can fight other people's ships, but actual MP in this would be fucking amazing, provided it would play smoothly.
The campaign is very linear so far as I can tell, but I hope eventually they'll do something more akin to Starscape, where you have a "home base" ship that you take between sectors to gather resources or hit targets of opportunity, and research and construct new components.
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