Oil Rush | Video Game Review
At the start of the game if you just jump right into a quick match against the computer AI, you don’t really know what to do. You can’t highlight (like in most RTS games) over your vehicles/fleet that you control, it’s mostly a right click RTS game (via the mini-map). You right click to send your vehicles somewhere to take over a base, production line, etc then you right click again to move them to a different area. You can of course put these vehicles into groups so that you can control them better, but that is still hard to do when you can’t highlight over the vehicles as I stated. Once you get past the whole right click, the game is actually fun to play.
Gameplay/graphics wise, the game runs and looks great for a 2012 published game. For those who want more out of the game, there is a single player campaign in which you can dive deeper in the storyline (which I haven’t). If you play a quick match against the AI in gamemodes like Sabotage, the computer will always have nukes. The nuke has a huge blast radius in which it can destroy your whole fleet of vehicles if it’s in that area (even out of the red circle vehicles can get damaged). Having the AI with the nuke 24/7 makes the gamemodes kinda boring, but more or less kinda intense since you always have to predict where the AI will put the nuke down. If you have enough skill points, you as well can get the skill trait of using nuke but that will take some time.
For $8, it’s a fun game to waste time.
My Review Score: 7/10
