In my experience (not a complete experience yet. I say that, but Deadlock can be a bit of a drag too. Deadlock set the standard for BSG games and was never bettered, which is perhaps why it feels like it was only released a few weeks ago rather than over a decade ago, as was absolutely, honestly the case. All this presented with cock-eyed cameras jumping from the close-up to the far-out, missiles that move like harpoons through a deep ocean, and a war-drums soundtrack that fuses East and West. A few familiar surnames crop up during the campaign, distant relatives to check a few fan service boxes, but other than that the focus is on defending the 12 Colonies from Cylon attack, rather than escaping their near-total destruction, as the TV series concerned itself with and most certaintly never diverted off into anything quasi-religious instead.Īs such, back in 2005 we were delighted to get a BSG that looked exactly how we'd want a BSG game to look, which is to say gigantic metal hulks turning slowly in the inky infinite, while Vipers and Raptors darted around their hides like fireflies. It's set during the First Cylon War, a few decades before the fall of Caprica (as seen in the BSG pilot), and that's close enough that it has mostly the same Colonial and Cylon ships, with a handful new types thrown in for strategic variety. But only in as much as this gives it the excuse to not get caught up in what were then the ongoing adventures of Adama and all his frenemies. Let's pretend it happened in 2005 rather than 2017, and this is but a fond look back at a time when everything BSG touched turned to gold.īSG Deadlock - the 2005 strategy game we all conveniently forgot about until Autumn 2017, even though it was definitely released 12 years ago and not just a few weeks ago, is a prequel to the TV series.
well, let's instead pretend what happened didn't happen, BSG stayed the BSG we all loved, and some time in the middle of all that we got Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, a 'simultaneous turn-based' strategy game that's all about space battles and space battles alone, and most importantly, missiles do that cool, slow, curvy thing as they fly. Grown-up sci-fi where everyone was at least a bit bad, the space battles felt tangible as well as spectacular and the enemy was as unknowable as they were implacable.
During 2004-2006, I probably thought about Battlestar Galactica at least once an hour every single day.
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