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Seriously buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: June 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While certainly eye-popping in terms of graphics, this is one seriously buggy game, with crashes to desktop that have been completely unaddressed by the manufacturer. Multiple emails inquiring about the next patch (the current one, version 1.01, left me wondering if the patch needed patching) have been ignored by Vivendi tech support. A little over halfway through the game, the fun will come to a crashing halt...in its current state, this game is an absolute waste of money and time. Stay clear of this one until the next patch becomes available (and even then I wouldn't be so sure...).

Very Buggy and too much micro-management

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: September 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In all honesty I can deal with the tedious micromangement of the game itself, but the bugs are horrendous! After an entire day of constant crashing and/or booting me to the desktop I decided to dump the game in the garbage. I have never been so frustrated with a game that has potential yet failed so miserably. No patches worth downloading.
What little game play I got out of it was allot of micro-management of your ships (no custom default loads) and combat that can actually take over an hour real time.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!!

Fun, but too buggy for commercial release

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nexus is a very entertaining game that is severely marred by an inexusable level of instability. It seems like the program shouldn't have even passed the alpha testing stage, much less beta testing, and definitely should not have been sent out for commercial release. The game crashed to desktop, bluescreened or glitched into an unplayable state more times than I could count.

Apart from that, we have a very beautiful space sim with intuitive controls, an engaging story, and good voice acting. It was enough for me to overlook the crashes enough to get to the ending (that and I wanted to get my 40 bucks worth). Unfortunately, the lack of stability keeps me from rating this game any higher.

Got Bored

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Tried twice but not much going on. The interface is not straight forward, Try homeworld.

Buggy Buggy Buggy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to temporarily hate this game. First of all, let me say it looks amazing. The graphics hold up to any other game out there right now, which is why I love just sitting back and watching the battles take place. If you're into thinking of a strategy, plotting it out, and then hitting "go" and watching it all unfold, you'll think this game is terrific. I happen to like these types of games-they're a nice psychological break from being constantly chased and shot at in Half Life 2, or crawling around on the jungle floor in fear of trigens in FarCry. HOWEVER.......
The North American release of this game is extremely buggy once you get about two thirds of the way through the game. The patch that came out for this game is only intended for the European release; the North American version is already the patched version. Which makes me wonder if the patch itself is screwed up.
When going into the forums of this game's website, it seems that many people are having the same problem starting in the Mechanoid Invasion mission. When you destroy a certain ship, which the mission REQUIRES you to destroy, the game crashes to the desktop. It seems that for the people who don't experience this particular crash, it crashes shortly after in another mission. There is no way around these crashes. Restarting the computer does not help and all of the tricks people have suggested in the forums are useless. If you can get to the end of this game in its current unpatched state, you are lucky.
I am not going to even load this game up again until there is a patch. I refuse to change my strategies as far as which ships to destory or what tactics I use to destroy them just to avoid a crash. That is not the way a $40.00 game is supposed to operate. Shame on Mithis for releasing a game that is so buggy and unfinished. This is a rip off. I'm so angry right now that I'm seeing spots.

OUTER SPACE IS WAITING FOR ORDERS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Space strategy games are a very special category of games with a very long history starting in early 80's with the big hit title "ELITE". Since then many things have changed of course but the main concept remains the same. You start the game with few missions more let's say instructional just to get more familiar with the interface. Right after this you will be able to command about 2 or 3 capital ships and about the same amount of squadrons. Things are easy for the moment but as you go on and on with your game you will be in the very interesting situation to manage more than 15 different ships with different specifications something that will challenge your strategic abilities. During the historical space battles you will able to take in real time decisions. For succefull results you got to know all the string and weak points of your and your enemy's fleet. Space bar is pausing the time to give you time to think and decide.
Nexus has amazing graphics and sound that will enjoy even the most difficult gamer. Personally I would expect a more easy game play. I think it will entertain you for many hours.

Play the demo frist secound and thired

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is intresting, play the demo frist is what i have to say. Not just once but take a week or two off play the demo again and then again if you did not get it the frist time. Problem i ran into was its controles are nothing freeformed like Homeworld i started clicking and nothing would happen. But after a few months i cam back to the demo after seeing the game on amazon again and it made sences more. you don't controle the units freely you have to have a target to send them to. Over all i liked the game just wish i could send my ships anywayre i want. Not just way points and guarding ships. Oh well it will wast a few hours

Cool, But only Half the Original Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: April 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nexis was originally done by digital reality and Mith games as imperium galactica 3. When publisher cdv dropped the project it was bought by hd and shipped half completed. The space battles were only supposed to be a layer in the game. But it looks like all the strategic elements have been removed and replaced with a extremely scripted battle campaign. in the original concept you were to have a galactic empire and design, create and fight huge fleets, have planets, space bases, and all the other details of ig2, along with being able to play as many different races. digital reality was fired before this was done and with only the shell for the scenarios completed the project was shelved when low and behold cdv sold it and renamed it nexus.

It looked extremely cool as a rts but with all that removed and replaced with boring space battles and a scriped layout you wana choke, its disappointing. their was only 25 scripted missions and then its over... with no way to choose the ships that you wish to use its frustrating... I would just go buy hw2. which has many more mods that add to the games life span.

Well Worth the Budget Expense

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 32 / 35
Date: March 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Space Sim fans take heart. There is a new entry well worth your time and expense. Nexus TJI is a great play. As a vet space simmer dating back to WCI, I highly recommend this outing. Not quite Homeworld I but certainly better than HW 2. Intense graphics, captivating storyline and awesome capital ship battles. That's right, it's all capitals here (no frenzied fighter action) but very satisfying nonetheless. Battles move slower and are more strategic. Voice acting is very good (background music could have been better ala HW I). Overall, I would highly recommend you take on this space adventure and enjoy the BIG ship/fleet combat and supurb graphics.

Not a Homeworld clone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw screenshots of Nexus:TJI, I figured it was just another Homeworld-type game. Since I rather enjoyed Homeworld, I proceeded to buy it. For those that are expecting Nexus to be that, you're in for a surprise, though not necessarily an unpleasant one.

The most notable difference between the two games is that you don't harvest or build anything in Nexus. You're assigned a few ships (I've never seen more than 10 under my command) and can usually configure them before each mission. Oftentimes you don't even start with all of them, but receive the remainder as reinforcements after an objective is completed. Lost ships are replaced automatically, but with default equipment, which is pretty bad if you get in the habit of taking casualties. The weapons available for upgrade, and the number you can add on, are more or less predetermined. Adding points to the main character's engineering raises the amount you can 'purchase,' but I've found this has little impact in general. Resource units don't carry on between missions, so there's really no management aspect to the game.

That said, the lack of resource focus means you'll be far more concerned with the mission objectives, which run the gamut of stealth to all-out war. The missions in general are well planned and remarkably challenging- on the hardest difficulty I actually got stuck about 1/3 of the way through the game. There are some issues in weapon configuration, which can cause you to scrub out on a mission the first time if you didn't know what you needed to equip, and oftentimes you're given few if any hints in this regard. Despite that, the missions are generally fun and fast-paced.

I have to say, though, that at times I wanted to pull my hair out when playing through some of them. You're often put up against massively superior enemy units, and one wrong move can mean your doom (or losing a ton of ships, which is pretty much the same thing). Some battles can drag on forever, with your fleet exchanging potshots with strong enemy warships until someone's shields finally go down. I actually left to eat lunch during some of the longer ones, and came back to find my fleet happily victorious. If you respec all your weapons for each mission you might be able to go faster, but only at the cost of expensive general-purpose upgrades like shields, power cells, and engines.

The game mechanics in general are well done and quite intuitive (despite what others here have said). There's advanced movement controls, but these are generally not needed. You issue basic orders to your ships, and they do their best to carry them out. Sometimes they may seem to take their time, but this is because even your fastest ships tend to be pretty slow and sluggish.

The graphics and sound are both very well done. This is pretty clear if you've seen any screenshots of the game. The campaign is interspersed with full motion video cutscenes, and all dialogue is spoken. Some of the alien dialogue is really irritating, but that just gives you more reason to kill them all. In general, the campaign is interesting and immersive, and the mission objectives go beyond the usual 'kill them all' scenario. As previously mentioned, the missions are challenging, and get more so as the campaign progresses. Perfectionists will be hard-pressed to finish without losing any ships even on easy difficulty.

I didn't have any serious technical issues with the game, though it doesn't seem to like multitasking. Load times were short, and Nexus ran very smoothly on my rather average PC.

If you're the type that appreciates real time combat, sci-fi, and/or 3-D strategy games, Nexus is certainly a good pick. I would say it's one of the only truly difficult real time strategy games out there now, so those just seeking a challenge of any sort might want to check it out.

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