Waves of Steel is a build-your-own-warship arcade naval combat simulator. Face menacing enemy fleets and bizarre superweapons in a story-driven campaign, collect new equipment from your foes' sinking wrecks, and use it to customize your ship!
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great power-fantasy game
A lot of people describe this game as "Ace combat but with boats" and it's pretty accurate:
1) You play as a powerhouse of a vehicle
2) You fight dozens of cool enemies
3) The wow/cool factor is much more important than realism
4) Anime-ish story
But there are two main additions:
1) Customizing your ship
2) More options for controlling your ship
So, the customization is one of the core mechanics of this game. You can gain new technologies by beating the missions and killing enemies(they drop the loot). At first, I didn't bother to customize my boat, cuz I thought that it would be useless and it was kinda clunky at first. But my goad, by the end of the game my boat was annihilating everything and kick flipping every 2 seconds holy shit.
And from the customization you have more options to control your ship, from fast acceleration, raming your enemies, drifting, and of course, kick flipping. The controls are so nice here and it's so fun to drift around, flipping, and raming enemies while your missiles are shooting down everything else. my god
The story is also kinda of insane, even tho, I don't like the format of static portrait dialogues, but I understand that it's for the budget.
The music is also quite nice
The game is also surprisingly long with a lot of replayability, the main story will take you around 6-7 hours, and then you can do bonus missions or replay old missions with your new ship
Anyway, insane game, great power fantasy, strongly recommended
A lot of people describe this game as "Ace combat but with boats" and it's pretty accurate:
1) You play as a powerhouse of a vehicle
2) You fight dozens of cool enemies
3) The wow/cool factor is much more important than realism
4) Anime-ish story
But there are two main additions:
1) Customizing your ship
2) More options for controlling your ship
So, the customization is one of the core mechanics of this game. You can gain new technologies by beating the missions and killing enemies(they drop the loot). At first, I didn't bother to customize my boat, cuz I thought that it would be useless and it was kinda clunky at first. But my goad, by the end of the game my boat was annihilating everything and kick flipping every 2 seconds holy shit.
And from the customization you have more options to control your ship, from fast acceleration, raming your enemies, drifting, and of course, kick flipping. The controls are so nice here and it's so fun to drift around, flipping, and raming enemies while your missiles are shooting down everything else. my god
The story is also kinda of insane, even tho, I don't like the format of static portrait dialogues, but I understand that it's for the budget.
The music is also quite nice
The game is also surprisingly long with a lot of replayability, the main story will take you around 6-7 hours, and then you can do bonus missions or replay old missions with your new ship
Anyway, insane game, great power fantasy, strongly recommended