Lipstick on a pig! – Free Trader Review

The only reason this gets three stars is because the lipstick on the pig is absolutely gorgeous. But all the nice graphics and slick interface are not enough to disguise the underlying pig of a game this is. It's a total luck-fest. There simply aren't sufficient resources given to the player to have any reasonable chance of making progress, much less winning. Either players need to start with more fuel/cash (they are one in the same) or you need to be allowed to jump back to the planet you came from for normal (not emergency) jumps or maybe both. The player does not have enough control. And fighting Invaders or Pirates just makes your payments come due that much faster, while emergency jumps deplete your fuel/cash to the point that you get stuck, too. Plus the frequency of mis-jumps is stupidly high. Just too frustrating to keep playing. :-(
Review by bandel65 on Free Trader.