Edge:A steep difficulty curve turns the simple act of manoeuvring your crew into a series of frenzied jabs, while the timing-based minigames for landing a successful hit become surprisingly tense when the stakes are so high. It’s rarely elegant – a horde of zombie cosmonauts exited our ship as quickly as they entered after arriving next to a hull breach – but in battling back from the brink of obliteration there are moments you’ll feel like a surrogate Kirk. Crashes, glitches and repetition break the spell, but when it’s time for some thrilling heroics Star Command proves itself a worthwhile enterprise.
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