Drox Operative Reviews
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GamerCast, 4/5.
One element that can get a little over your head is the copious amounts of loot on offer, because with a possible fifteen different component slots on your ship, you've the difficult decision of picking and choosing exactly how your ship operates. Will it be packed to the gills with weaponry? Or focus more on defence with a range of shields and armour plating? All this is managed with components which act as your skills in the game, and managing them all under your power load is a very tricky but rewarding aspect of the game.
Between juggling the inhabitants of a sector, building the best darn ship that ever soared and bringing the Drox up to the legendary status that they once held, Drox Operative is a ridiculously addictive, and extremely effective action-RPG, and it puts some of the higher budget PC titles out there to shame in what it achieves.
ElcomeSoft, scoreless.
Drox Operative is a game which I say draws inspiration from games like Space Rangers and Diablo, whilst introducing some 4X elements from classics such as Civilisation to form an enjoyable eclectic mix of gaming. The addition of leveling up, multiple race choices and the random universe generator all combine together with several other elements including the loot system to produce a game which possesses a great amount of replayability.
Should you buy Drox Operative? For me, it's a Yes. I tried the Demo and I liked it. Immediately I felt a bit overwhelmed but guided gently by the tooltips and quickly settled in to enjoy a ride which I have missed sorely since completing Space Rangers 2 a number of years back. The real time element keeps things a bit sharper and more actiony and although the lack of story will put some people off, the wide variety of options available to the player when combined with the non-linearity of Drox Operative meld together very nicely.
