Pandora: First Contact opens with a smattering of people desperate to find a new Earth after decades of environmental destruction. The pieces that stand up are pulled directly from other, better games, and the original ideas aren't developed well enough to carry the experience. While it is meant to be a respectful tribute, Pandora is laden with awful design choices and a confusing mishmash of old and new mechanics.
Pandora: First Contact is one such game, and it takes heavy cues from games like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Many 4X strategy games are strongly tied to real events, people, and cultures in human history, but some of the best games in the genre are set in space against powerful and hostile alien races. They are often unknown, unreasonable, and unrelenting. There's a special kind of fear that aliens can tap into.
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