#STARLINK BATTLE FOR ATLAS MODS#

#STARLINK BATTLE FOR ATLAS MODS#

These mods can give you more armor, boost your speed, make your weapons stronger, and more. In the game, you find items that can improve your ship and weapons’ capabilities (some locked behind the puzzles I mention above). You get to play engineer on your starfighters, both in the game and in your living room (or wherever you’re playing). They’re basic puzzles, but look at them from a child’s point-of-view - once my kids figured out that the colors matched weapons, they felt like they were the smartest people in the room. A gate with red and blue means you need to fire your flame and frost weapons at it to open it and get the loot. The “door” on these will have specific colors that match your weapons. These planets also have some old tech lying around behind massive gates, and you must solve a basic puzzle. You often must scan two or three individuals of a species before you learn enough to learn what it is. My youngest dug this - you scan a creature, fly around it in a circle to finish getting the info, and then see how much you learned. Missions take place on these worlds, but as you zoom around, you can fight enemies, find loot to plunder, and scan native lifeforms. Starlink takes place in space and on planets, and while I’d prefer focusing just on combat and exploring in the stars, I did enjoy flying around planets. I didn’t notice if it made the ship any more nimble in the game, but that could be for a variety of reasons. I enjoy taking the wings from Fox McCloud’s Arwing and putting them on Judge’s Neptune ship, giving this tank of a fighter a different appearance. If you have two of three ships and a couple of sets of weapons, you have more than just two or three ships - you have a number of different configurations. Heck, even I enjoy flying these things around with them, engaging in imaginary space battles, racing from the living room and down the hall to their bedrooms, and going into the repair bay (aka the coffee table in our living room) to switch out weapons and wings. I don’t think that’s happening with these Starlink ships any time soon. So now, they’re more decorations in my living room than they are toys that see playtime.

My kids did have some enjoyment with the figures from Disney Infinity, but their interest was limited once they wanted figures they could pose, just like their Star Wars and Transformers toys. These are my impressions after four days and nights with Starlink and its starships, and my kids going nuts for these fun toys. GamesBeat didn’t get the game until Friday, so I didn’t have time to do a proper review. Starlink: Battle for Atlas is from Ubisoft’s Toronto studio and hits retail October 16 for the Nintendo Switch.

Starlink battle for atlas