Direct Hit: Missile War

TLDR: I recommend this game because it is an old school strategy game with fun mechanics, but suffers from a bad interface and lack of multiplayer. Not recommended for people that don't like hectic and long games against AI opponents. I own Direct Hit Missile War since 2011 from another distribution platform and asked the dev for a key so I could write a review to give future buyers an impression of the game. This...

24 found this helpful, 2014-08-07

Very disappointing, even at the price as it's so close to being at least decent but the UI quirks and design decisions really add up to something subpar. And the premise looks so good at first: a combination of the SNES game Metal Marines with the missile and mining focus of Fragile Allegiance, two great tastes that should go great together but just falls short of those expectations. Like Metal Marines, you play on...

12 found this helpful, 2014-08-09

Interesting, kinda fun, rough around the edges, and with some instances of charmingly broken english that made me think of playing old import games from when I was a young kid. Apparently the devs are newish - which makes me feel like this is absolutely a game worth buying to see what they do next. (Hopefully hire a translator and get some GUI assistance in!) Basically? This game is the boardgame 'Battleship' with...

8 found this helpful, 2014-08-07