Pros:

• Great graphics
• Some really good dogfighting
• Good network play, despite number of players and single server
• Decent range of ships and weapons
• Trading system has promise, plenty of different things to carry
• The bigger multiperson ships sound inspirational, and the cap ship does look awesome

• Frag-fest where you continually lose money at the moment
• Not enough things to do except shoot down ppl less competent than you
• No real rewards for combat vs the cost of engaging in it (~40k a ship to be competitive, destoryed often)
• Strafe thrusters being too powerful leads to counterintuitive dogfights and you need a decent keyboard thatll let you hold down enough keys against better ppl (>3 keys at once)
• Easy and boring to make money, but then theres nothing to do but lose it fighting people. Just adds an unwelcome work element to the whole thing.

-Erwos

David

Though a test, quite playable and enjoyable. Get it, play it, and you'll never leave it.

• Faction System (partly implimented, in progress)
• Mission System (in the server... sorta, but not ready for human consumption)
• Capital Ships (the torque is screwed up badly)
• The storyline (They have a basic idea, but it's not there yet)
• ~982 sectors
• A fully balanced weapon/ship/cargo system (it's all way too cheap)
• A publisher!!!!!

As many of you have noticed, we haven't been terribly forthcoming with our plans for the future, of late. This has been, in large part, because we haven't been sure if there was going to *be* much of a future for our company or our game. Some of you are aware that I personally have funded the company from its inception. I didn't have a huge amount of money to begin with, so we've learned to stretch our finances pretty far. We've survived for several years, building the game you've seen and looking for a publisher to fund us to completion. As of the beginning of this month, however, I am beyond broke. Ray and Waylon ceased to be paid their minimal-survival salaries at the beginning of the month. Ray has been looking for jobs, Waylon moved his computer home to save on gas and food costs. We've scrounged enough to keep the office for a short period of time, but our outlook is somewhat grim. There have been hopeful possibilities with publishers and the like, but none have panned out, and things have gotten to a pretty bad state for us.

The Test is open to the general public. As an MMORPG engine, the game requires an account to be made, which grants access to both the website and, once installed, the game itself. The account is used, server-side, to store all the user's character data and other information. There is a hard upper limit on the total number of public Test accounts that are available. However, accounts that are deemed "very inactive" are purged on a regular basis, and there are usually a number of account slots open at any given time.

To obtain the game, first create an account, by clicking the link below. This will take to you the Vendetta Test website. Once you have created your account, use your new login and password to login to the website, and select the Download option on the left. This will allow you to download a small program called the Vendetta Updater. Once installed, the Updater will then download the rest of the game, as well as keeping your copy of the game up to date with the latest patches as the development moves forward.

The only dissapointing thing about this game is the fact that someday it will go commercial and then I won't be able to play it. In every other way it has surpassed my expectations. The graphics are stunning and run well.

This game is awsome.

cdgweb

Steven.