![]() ![]() ![]() 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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