Space Siege Preview

IGN brings us up to speed on the progress Gas Powered Games has been making with their sci-fi action RPG Space Siege.

Instead of a more fantasy world, GPG is keeping things on board the ship with Space Siege. Arriving at certain points in the game will give you access to certain mechanical upgrades like a cybernetic eye, brain, arm, and torso which you can choose to permanently fuse to your body or disregard. Swapping out fleshy bits for cold metal will give you statistical bonuses and access to a wider range of special abilities, but GPG says there’ll be benefits to maintaining your humanity.

For one thing, the game will feature different endings based which decisions you’ve made with the upgrades. NPCs in the main questing hub will react different depending on how many artificial bits you’ve grafted to yourself, and if you stay pure human you’ll gain access to two special abilities otherwise locked out.

Just from looking at the skill tree, however, it seems more beneficial to drop as many implants into Walker as possible as it unlocks nearly double the amount of skills in addition to giving you access to a wider range of weaponry. These upgrades are performed at special stations located around the ship, and have the bonus functionality of letting you upgrade your own and Harvey’s statistics as well as whatever weaponry you’re carrying around.