The space strategy games at that time were just a bunch of mosaic blocks moving slowly on the screen, and you had to wait a long time for them to move after you clicked on them. Now open "Doomsday Expedition", my dear, more than a hundred battleships are firing on the same screen, and the beam cannons are exploding like fireworks. I am afraid that I will faint in 3D when the screen turns. If my friends who played "Command and Conquer" saw this, they would probably eat the keyboard 😂
What impresses me the most is that this game is only over 100 MB. I remember when I had three discs of "Sweep the Army" installed, and my hands cramped when changing discs. Nowadays, just download the installation package on your mobile phone, and when you open it, you will see a 360° panoramic view of Star Wars. The space station is built like Lego, and even the naval guns can be customized. At that time, we had to change the configuration file to adjust the resolution, but now you can send the fleet out to fight by rubbing the screen twice. Times have really changed!
But to be honest, this game still has the same old strategy flavor at its core. Do you think it's about hand speed? wrong! It's a matter of brains. How to match the battleships, how to place the escort ships, and how to research the blueprints are as advanced as the technology tree used to study "StarCraft". The idea of global server sharing is a new trick. In the past, when trying to connect to a local area network, you would have to yell at your throat to get people to join you. Now, you can fight with dozens of legions around the world anytime and anywhere. At three o'clock in the morning, there are people online to make fights. It is more convenient than the CS hack in the past.
The most annoying thing is that the pace of this game is quite fast, unlike the old games where one game lasts for two hours. Now you can conquer a city by squatting in a pit when you get home from get off work, and grab a star field while waiting for takeout. It perfectly inherits the needs of our old players who "have no time to sit in front of the computer, but always have a conductor living in their hearts".
Anyway, I am an old bone and got into it. While sighing that today's mobile games are really awesome, I also secretly feel happy that the ambition of domination that I failed to realize in “Homeland” can now be realized on my mobile phone. The first Star Wars strategy game for young people? I think it's the last one for a middle-aged man like me😏 Anyway, as long as I can still build big ships and cannons, I can continue to work hard!