After a few linear tutorial missions, Deadlock opens its galactic star-lanes up with a few elements reminiscent of XCOM. Those looking for a squadron-based fleet tactics game with a lighter dynamic campaign overview will find things to like too.
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The fact that it treats the license with care should automatically win the game a certain amount of affection. You can’t skip any of the dialogue sequences, sadly. Combat effects are a bit more mixed (engines and missiles are generally good, Viper attack runs sound rather weak), and the voice acting ranges from decent to somewhat flat. DRADIS pings sound straight from the show, and, while the studio didn’t get Bear McCreary, Ash Gibson Greig’s score does a fine job channelling a similar tone of space-mysticism. These creations fill their respective tactical roles, but also look and (mostly) sound the part.Īudio in Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock is handled very well. Alongside Jupiter-Class Battlestars and Cylon Base Stars you’ll find vessels like the pragmatic Adamant Frigate and the Raider-filled Cerberus Carrier. The ship roster on both Colonial and Cylon sides has been expanded in order to depict earlier designs and provide a decent line-up for each. Space bureaucracy, someone named Agathon … yep, this checks out.
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It’s with aesthetics, though, that Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock does the series much more justice.
The narrative is pretty sparse (and while I did watch the show I’m not a die-hard, so I don’t know if this plot retcons anything), but it does a reasonable, if slightly confusing, job sketching out a version of events for the war. However, a couple of familiar surnames do crop up throughout, and the campaign story-line takes a brief pass at some of the more overt themes: uneasy Colonial alliances, authoritarian military decisions in times of crisis, and the ontological status of the Cylons in relation to humanity. As prequels go, that puts it a long time before any of the events involving Adama and company. Until now that is, when the license has been astutely dusted off by Slitherine and Black Lab Games for Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock a title dominated by tactical fleet combat.īased around the 2004 version of the series, Deadlock is set during the events of the First Cylon War. Despite this level of name-recognition and a setting almost tailor-made for the medium it hasn’t had much success in the world of videogames. Battlestar Galactica’s 2004 revival and its various spin-offs disappeared from our screens a few years ago, but it’s a series that retains a strong following.
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