IGN:I really wanted to love Miner Wars. Outer space and sandboxy exploration are the sorts of things that make me go all starry eyed, but the game only served to yank my expectations back down to Earth. Somewhere inside Miner Wars 2081 is an incredibly ambitious, frighteningly absorbing space game. As is, however, Keen Software's long-in-the-making opus feels like a half-complete realization of that vision. Maybe it'll eventually evolve into something truly special, but for now, it's hardly out of this world.
While Miner Wars 2081 sits on what could potentially be a good in-game universe that gamers can definitely get behind, the lack of variety in gameplay makes it fall quite short from being decidedly worthy enough title for those who may be into this type of gameplay.
Daav plays Miner Wars 2081 for CW Games. While ambitious and filled with great ideas in theory, none of them pair up in execution and further hinder the game to an almost unplayable or pointless state.
DSOGaming writes: "Keen Software has released the first major patch for its 6DOF (six degrees of freedom) action-survival space-shooter simulation-game, Miner Wars 2081."
