Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

I just picked up a game on steam for 10 bucks the other day called "Nexus: The Jupiter Incident". The campaign so far is actually pretty damn fun. It has a really steep learning curve though (think eve online o.O), and a lot of things are not explained to you.

They give you the basics, but not everything is explained, and after the first two or so missions they pretty much stop helping you. They didn't even explain or help with ship customization, which is actually really important. Just as important as knowing what different weapons actually do.

After you learn most of it though, man it gets fun, and it's also quite pretty for 04. Some models are a little blocky, and a few backgrounds (I'm looking at you first missions where asteroids look pretty meh, and the asteroids in the background look like utter shit.), but effects look fantastic. Weapons look awesome, shields have a really cool effect, overall, the effects make up for some of the bad graphics.

It's weird though, your first ship looks "ok" at best, although some decently interesting things are happening to it, it's overall blocky, in a bad way. Not in the Caldari blocky way. The second ship you get though, actually looks pretty good!? I don't understand the difference in that, I guess they just half assed that ship since you only use it for a few missions.

Anyways, read an actual review on it if you're interested in mostly slow paced space rts games (it also has a pause feature by hitting space bar, like most of bioware's games), and if you like what you read/see on youtube, pick it up for 10 bucks on steam. Well worth it imo.

Also, I purchased myself a geforce 8400 low power/profile vid card to replace my dead 7900 for my second monitor. It has a large ass heatsink, but that's what you get for taking off the fan to use a little less power.

edit- here is the review that helped me decide if I wanted to buy it.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/nexus/review.html