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The Alters review
The Alters achieves something tense and new by merging strategy base-building with third-person exploration and a sci-f…
And while the clones border on stereotype as ultra-nerdy scientists or gruff and burly technicians - and veer into cliché with lives dominated by alcoholic fathers and work-chosen-over-relationship moments - they do develop into deeper and more rounded characters that have a few surprising revelations of their own. Here, you'll venture out onto the planet's surface to look for resources and establish mining pipelines there, and these sections - a new invention for 11 bit - work very well, adding a different perspective that helps underline the sci-fi setting of the game. The planet's sweeping vistas of low-hanging moons and mist-clung rocks and lava pools, and its strange, magical minerals that warp the air, all contribute to a feeling of soapy, romantic sci-fi.
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