It has its flaws, but Space Rangers 2 remains a crazy, inspired, over-the-top, and addictive blend of gameplay.

This is the best game I have played in terms of fun, addictiveness and immersion in the last year; if not two! While we get Far Cry, followed by Half Life 2, followed by F.E.A.R. which all look brilliant in any way you could think, they still are all variations on a theme. Space Rangers 2 owes it’s allegiance to the golden years of gaming not the bland one’s of today’s “clone” market. Games like Sid Meier’s Pirates, or Star Control, or even Elite.

“The name may be silly, but this brilliant space trader/combat game will have a home on your hard drive for a long time.” -GameSpy

It’s open gameplay is so refreshing, as is it’s relative simplicity. But simplicity can be deceptive. Because this game has what can only be called an ingenious interface, it let’s you handle with ease a deep, engrossing very sophisticated Galaxy teeming with life and stories.
It has the guts to include various genres as sub-games (like RTS, FPS, text adventures and arcade action) and then has the gamers in mind by making most of them optional! Like Elite, this game can take over your life like no other. With 5 races (1 Human and 4 Alien), 5 types of career from Merchant to Pirate and different ship hulls, engines, weapons, shields and “special items”, and given that, for example a human weapon may not fit in an Alien’s ship hull, you have lots of choices to make as you upgrade. Also, ingeniously, all ship items have weight and size attributes, so you have to decide: A level 6 laser gun with a size of 40 and weight of 20, or a level 5 gatling with a size of 30 but a weight of 30? And I haven’t even mentioned the damage ratings of the actual guns!

If you only take one chance on a game this year, make it this one. Space Rangers 2 is so great in so many ways that ripples need to travel out from it to other publishers. It needs to sell in high enough numbers that the media wake up to what gamers truly want. Gameplay. I have not seen this game score less than 70% but have also read three reviews talking about SR2 as game of the year!

About this game
Space Rangers 2: The Dominators (SR2) represents a unique combination of completely different gaming genres. It has the adventure and romance of space travel, the tactics of planetary fights and the strategy of liberating star systems invaded by the enemy - you name it, it has it!

Even fans of arcade battles and text quests will have something to like. It is hard to imagine a game that could be more diverse. SR2 is simply unique!