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Excellent, fun-filled game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You are the manager of a torus-shaped station is space. You can play missions to have specific objectives ( There's 10 missions ) and then once you finished them, you can play the random map system ( sandbox ) to have more fun with the game. As i write this review, patch 1.1 is out and fixes loads of bugs and adds some nice things. Also possible are user-made missions for StarTopia. Sure, you need to learn how to do them, but that's still a great thing which could very well increase the fun of the game further!

I truly reccomend this game. If you liked Theme Hospital, you'll certainly love this game. And even if you didn't play Theme Hospital, i still fully suggest this game.

Dungeon Master in Orbit

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I was buying this game, I kept on thinking of how my copy of the Sims was gathering dust on my shelf. I'd played the demo of Startopia and thought that it was a very humerous, immersive experience. Although there's a heck of a lot going on during gameplay, I get the overall feeling of not really being involved in the whole party. Sure, all the structures and decor has been provided by me, but terrorists plant bombs, electrical blackouts occur and aliens die randomly regardless of how much security, energy or medical resources I buy. Even though you can 'possess' aliens a la Dungeon Master (although it's called shoulder cam), you can't then take control of him and go where you want. Instead, you just get to walk around in circles.
Anyway, a great looking game, albeit a bit buggy, but when the push comes to the shove, I'd imagine that it has a fortnight's appeal (I bought it yesterday after two days worth of demo playing, and I was getting tired of it after a few hours.)

Great game, if not a little predictable...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was a very interesting game. It was kind of like Dungeon Keeper 2 but with more interesting items. I only wish that there could be a wider variety of objects that you could place in the houses and bars. I was surprised at the running speed of this game. Many of the games I have purchased have been as slow as anything, therefore significantly taking away from the excitement of the game. Not this game though... it ran really smooth until I put tons of buildings in my space station, and then it only slowed down a little game. Great Game for those that don't like gory monsters jumping out from every corner. Highly Recommended!

One of the best economic sims I've ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just downloaded the demo and played it, and had a blast! What an intuitive interface, great voice acting, funny and believeable aliens, and perfect graphics! This game runs really well, even though I have only a 400mhz machine w/ 128 mbs RAM and a 32mb video card. I look forward to seeing this game in its full form!

I love this game... all 10 minutes of it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to give this game a rating of 4 stars, even if it is short. The game design and camera angles alone are worth it. I played the demo of this game when it first came out, and I remember just playing with the camera features for 10-15 minutes.

In a free play mode this is basically superb RTS world management game. With all the different features you can beat a level in at least 5 different ways.

The missions are great for learning the ropes, however they will only take about 2 days to beat, most of this time being spent in the last 3 or 4 missions.

This wasn't the most disappointing part though, because at the end of the origional missions there appears to be more, but they just do not work, or were a teaser for a never made sequal.

But, back to the positive side. This game's level design is open source, and anyone who can use a spreadsheet (Excel) can modify and create custom campaigns. So, if you've got some hardcore gaming buddies you can keep each other entertained for at least a couple months trading levels back and forth, or you can simply try your hand at game design solo.

With top rate graphics (for it's day) and a new look at an old game format, I have to go with 4 stars.

-- nemo54321

A Great Beginning

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is easy to like. The slick graphics and interactive feel make it modern and appealing. The quirky techno soundtrack helps too. The only complaint I can levy is that it's easy to finish all the "training" levels, and go straight to the open ended "sandbox" mode. After you control the entire station, there's nothing else to shoot for!
I bought this game pre-9/11, and I think something must've happened to stopo production on a sequal, or an improved newer version....I mean come on....Sim City got a second, third and fourth chance, and spun-off countless times....why not Startopia?

Startopia goes to the stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: July 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit i've only played the demo and played a bit of the full version but from what i've seen this is one hell of a game it's so addictive I found my self playing the demo over a 100 times.

The game is based on a space station which you control(obviously). The space station has lots of segmants and you, at the start control, 1.Then you start to build infirmaries, com stations, berths,dine-o-mats and other building. Then when you run out of space you go on to the next segment and so on

Gameplay:4 Value:3 Graphics:5 Modes:3 (these ratings are out of 5)

Imbalanced, Monotonous

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The key element to have a successful real-time strategy game is to keep the player busy. In StarCraft and Command & Conquer, players constantly have to scurry across the map in order to maintain their units and building properly. Startopia instead keeps the player waiting, bored, instead of rushing, hoping for a break.

Startopia is a brilliant idea. Ever I thought it was a wonderful idea to make a spaceship simulator somewhat similar to SimCity with a bit of StarCraft combat elements mixed. Yet, whe I first played Startopia I was playing exactly what I had hoped. The graphics were brilliant, and viewing the spaceship very cloesly was a great benefit. The gameplay itself had many different dimensions, including combat, trade, hiring, and create tree unique decks to satisfy the population. Game missions were a pleasure to play, yet not too difficult to handle. Music and sound were a work of art, even the opening cinematic set a humorous tone to the game.

Yet Startopia's entertainment value dwindles as players march into the game further. This is mainly because the game is imbalanced. Players can't make enough money to stay above the artificial intelligence's competition. Instead, after spending my entire treasury, I was forced to wait until a trade ship entered my space port, or my entertainment facilities made a large profit. Thus, Startopia is a great game to play and scratch its surface, but to become deeply involved in it is an exasperating experience.

I would recommend games like Civilization 3 and Empire Earth to those who wish to have an entertaining experience with a game similar to Startopia's gameplay.

Fun Strategy Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I remember getting this game when it first came out and playing it for hours on end. I replayed it in just the last couple weeks, and I remembered how much fun it was and so completely addictive it is!

I do, however, want to mention that this CD is for 95B/98/ME. I have it running on Windows XP, but after a certain point the computer locks up and I can't get past it. I will restart the game and once it gets to the same spot again it locks up again.

I know that MuckyFoot is no more, so there won't be any 'official' updates, but if there was ever a game to be re-released for current software and hardware, this would be the one.

Fun Strategy Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I remember getting this game when it first came out and playing it for hours on end. I replayed it in just the last couple weeks, and I remembered how much fun it was and so completely addictive it is!

I do, however, want to mention that this CD is for 95B/98/ME. I have it running on Windows XP, but after a certain point the computer locks up and I can't get past it. I will restart the game and once it gets to the same spot again it locks up again.

I know that MuckyFoot is no more, so there won't be any 'official' updates, but if there was ever a game to be re-released for current software and hardware, this would be the one.

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