I have played this game through and must say that this is really a good one. The story is quite good although also kind of old-fashioned, and the ingame films are pretty wonderful. In the campaign you play a "nomad" (drifting island's master in a cloud world Aeres) and undertake the task to rescue your captured friends——and of course something more. The graphics are superb even viewed in 2007; in game progress I often do nothing but stand and see the breathtaking cloud ocean, rock islands and poetic huge planets hanging in the sky like full moon of our earth lingering over the horizon in a serene summer night.The sound also does its bit; it is not as great as the graphics but also quite realistic——you can hear the repeating shots of your gunturrets and the disgusting skrit grunts very clearly in the right time. The gameplay is a hybrid of FPS, adventure and building management; the campaign allows you either to command your own turrets to send the enemy to hell, to drive your aircrafts to maneuver through rock labyrinths and shoot apart heavily defended targets, or to venture personally into unknown islands to fight monsters and collect valuable artifacts, and you must keep your battle island in run and build it up bit by bit. To blame the automatic weapon systerms in this game is pointless; in fact, this game somethings goes quite difficult and you can never do without the automatic weaponry. The actual shortcoming of gameplay is you often get stuck in objects when jumping, and you never need to collect any resources to keep your base in good order. What you should care for in island fight is just to keep your lighthouse and big cannon as well as bomber hangar not to go down; other buildings can always be respawned with no cost after the hot battles. This considerably reduces the strategic elements in this game and therefore makes this game like everything but a RTS. In addition, the multiplay part is not as good. There's too few maps and the play types are limited. I think this is a big reason why it never becomes popular. Overall, Project Nomads is a great game and has been seriously underestimated. It represents a good attempt to mix different traditional game types and provide the player a new experience——and to some extent, has made it. I recommend this game to everyone who likes to play various types of games and keeps open-minded to new things. If you have the patience to play a game on despite a bad first 5 minutes impression, you will find it quite interesting.
As for strange game concepts this one sure is a winner. You play a reckless adventurer travelling around on this island in a "sea of floating rocks". The nonsensical excuse for a story has the usual pitfalls and pointl... Read Full Review
I bought this game at a brilliant price, and I was very impressed. The graphics at first were a bit ropey, but I went to the options I set the resolution to maximum, and that improved it by miles! Overall the gameplay is... Read Full Review
