All of this will make you more effective as the games’ difficulty ramps up and presents you with more challenges. Each pilot also has a development tree which unlocks a range of differing abilities. The scope and scale of the game is very impressive, and it all looks rather stunning on the Switch.Īs you crush your foes, you’ll accrue experience points and earn/unlock modifications for any ships you have, or weapons in order to enhance their effectiveness and, to this end, there is a huge array of options available to suit your needs. The game also features a few puzzles too, imaginatively presented platforming sections (whilst still in your spacecraft) and a huge amount of exploring if you feel that the pressure of the storyline isn’t that important with a huge variety of flora and fauna in abundance, with the planetary inhabitants (mostly Dinosaur types) available for researching. As you explore a variety of alien landscapes, you’ll be defending them from enemy attacks, setting up bases to cultivate resources, money and modifications for your vessel/weapons as well as tackling the legion forces head-on, including the impressive Prime units which will take a huge amount of skill to defeat. The remainder of the team, a clichéd group of misunderstood characters have to work together in order to first rescue their father figure and then stop the resurgent enemy force from taking control of Atlas, the vast solar system in play.

A bunch of misfits on a spaceship called The Equinox are attacked and one of their own is captured by the nefarious Grax and his “Legion”, for their own end. I’ll get to all of that toy stuff later, and I’ll kick this off from the top. My biggest concern for the title was always whether adding in the team would be detrimental to the overall experience having him there for the sake of it. If you’ve been paying attention pre-release, you’ll have noted that although Starlink: Battle for Atlas is a multiplatform release, the Nintendo Switch version is home to some exclusive content, in the form of Fox McCloud and his Star Fox buddies. Not only is the title attempting to revive the flagging toys-to-life genre – which has seen the bigger guns seemingly withdraw from the space, or, in Nintendo’s case, reduce the number released – but it also marks the second time that Ubisoft has been handed the keys to an iconic Nintendo IP. It’s fair to say that Starlink: Battle for Atlas has a fair amount of pressure riding on it.

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