Warpforce Review

WarpForce is visually pleasing on the senses and it has some nice animations for the enemies you'll battle and the moves your character will make during the adventure. The character models are a little stiff at times when in motion or preparing for battle, and some of the flash elements looked like they weren't complete. You'll see dialogue boxes and character models that remain on screen during a few of the included cut scenes in this video game. The dialogue boxes can also be obscured at times by the character models as you move around the environments. The Peace Offering mission is an excellent example of this as you'll see plenty of flash elements with this problem.

The sound production values of WarpForce vary from good to bad, depending on what elements you're listening too. The music score is terrible and listening to background music from your stereo is going to be a lot more entertaining and engrossing than the music included with WarpForce. The sound effects are better, with nice effects for all the weapons and enemies you'll battle during this adventure. Unfortunately, due to the fact that there's no voice acting in WarpForce, the sound effects eventually become a little hum-drum.

The gameplay elements are simple enough in WarpForce for the casual gamer to jump right into the action, but you start off with very little information on what you need to do. Artix Entertainment does a good job of slowly introducing you to the interface and other elements of the game you need to learn before you progress to the higher levels of the adventure. You start by selecting your race and whether you are male or female before deciding on your profession during the adventure.

There are only three races and two classes to choose from at the moment, but Artix is planning on expanding the game in the future. Artix has developed a convoluted system that governs everything that happens on the space ship and they appear to still be trying to work out the kinks in the system. All these elements are only a prelude to the real meat in this adventure, however, which is the combat against a diverse variety of enemies. Really, it's not too hard to jump right into Warpforce and just begin playing, with simple controls and a nice interface.

WarpForce doesn't have free content that's worth checking out, but the good news is the $10 fee is small enough to make checking out the rest of the game worthwhile. However, there are a number of other free games out there that are much more entertaining than Warpforce, and other games priced around $10 that have much more replay value than this game.