Ancient Frontier

I thought the story started out very weak, but by about 10 missions in it had improved considerably, and the emotional hits late in the campaign really had some punch to them.

There's plenty of RPG elements, battle damage and mission consequences carry over from one mission to the next and there's a nice tech tree and progression for all things from ships to ship components to crew.

The graphics/sound effects of battle are done well, programming done terrific thus far.

Solid hex based tactical combat, polished graphics, and almost the entire game is voiced as well.

The controls are intuitive, and the initiative system has the combat feeling very fast paced for a turn based game and there is a nice difficulty curve as you make it deeper into the game.

This is really the strongest part of the game, the struggle to match the increasing difficulty as it gradually scales upwards the further in the story you go.