The range of control available to you might seem slightly odd at first to those unused to this style of game - which, let's face it, will be most people. In fact, this is more like naval combat than like any space combat you may have seen before, as the lumbering ships circle each other and turrets track their targets, each captain seeking to inflict the crucial blow of the battle. Mithis are from a school of science fiction game design which sees capital ships as great lumbering beasts which maneouvere around each other in combat, vying for the best shooting positions, while smaller fighter craft dash around in the spaces between the ships almost too fast to see.

The types of battles you'll be fighting in Nexus are quite different to those found in Homeworld or indeed in the vast bulk of space warfare games. Rather than just clicking on a point on the map and telling a unit to head over there and mine some ore or shoot some bad guys, you're effectively placed in the captain's chair, and must command the ship(s) and crew on a much more up close and personal level.

Where Homeworld was effectively a real-time strategy game with the added twist of a third dimension, Nexus is all about commanding a battleship or a small fleet through engagements with the enemy and other such missions. I can see the comparisons with Homeworld forming in your minds already, though, and you need to nip those in the bud. Nexus is, in short, a space strategy simulation. Instead, they've delivered a game which is a science fiction fan's wet dream - filled with the aforementioned epic battles, hulking capital ships and what have you, and presented with a sense of dramatic scale that leaves other space strategy games in the moondust. It's a good thing, then, that Mithis decided to add the space battling element to Nexus - The Jupiter Incident, since a game focused on looking at nicely rendered asteroids, planets and, er, hard vacuum, wouldn't be very entertaining. Space is, quite frankly, a bit of a tough sell as real estate goes, but it's certainly very good for certain things - such as playing host to epic battles between hulking metallic capital ships, darting fighters and sleek alien starfaring vessels, all tearing strips off each other with exotic combinations of beam weapons, mass drivers and lethal torpedoes. It's vast, dark and cold beyond comprehension, and filled only with emptiness. There is, to put it mildly, rather a lot of it.

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