Battlestar Galactica Online reviewed

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ONLINE
Genre: SCI-FI MMO Type: Free to play Browser based MMO Publisher: Bigpoint Released: 2011

 

Ifyou are into Scientific Fiction, you most probably know about Battlestar Galactica. Originally created by Glen Larson in 1978, Battlestar Galactica TV show was re-created in 2004 by Ronald D. Moore. The TV series ran successfully for four seasons and then ended in 2009.

 

The story of Battlestar Galactica can be summarized as; “The Cylons were created by man. They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies. And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters. After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared. The Cylons left for another world to call their own. A remote space station was built......Where Cylon and Human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations. Every year the Colonials send an officer. The Cylons send no one. No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years.” (Battlestar Galactica Mini Series Prologue, 2003)

 

 

The series were about the survival fleet led by Commander Adama and Laura Roslin. The old but powerful warship was named “Battlestar Galactica”.

 

Bigpoint’s game, Battlestar Galactica Online is based on the 2004 TV Series. Cylons who lost their Resurrection Ship (in which a dead cylon is resurrected into another body.) attack the Colonial Fleet. Colonials try to jump to safety but something goes wrong and their FTL drive (that jumps the ship) malfunctions and does an uncontrolled jump. Cylons suffer the same damage and they also jump without any control.