Starlink – Revision of Battle for Atlas: Collect Pieces

We thought that the phenomenon of real life was dead. But Ubisoft believes the opposite. Despite Skylanders and Warners' canning of Activision's Lego Dimensions, Ubi has decided to embark on the genre.

Starlink is reviving the concept of video games related to real plastic characters – paid with real money, of course – and reproduced on the screen. Battle for Atlas looks like a little paradise, No Man's Sky, in his fantasy of opera in space on the safeguarding of seven planets of the extraterrestrial invaders. Your ship type depends on the version of the game you buy, as well as your driver and your weapons – with the Switch version, for example, featuring the Nintendo Starfox Arwing.

Although ships and weapons are flexible, you can mix and match pieces from different packs, as long as you can have four wings or even place weapons upside down.

The concept of collectible figurines giving you powers in the game is not a bad idea, if only companies were not so greedy for price. Starlink drops to the first hurdle, with additional packs costing up to $ 30 each in addition to the $ 70 you just paid for the basic game. Sure, you can get on with the game without messing around, but some of the toughest boss battles do not make things any easier. Exchanging in another ship gives you the equivalent of an extra life – at this initial cost of 30 €, of course.

The game itself has a lot to say: from the palette of planets to the day to various fights. You can fight on the surface of the planet, fly into space for air combat or raid the Star Wars in the belly of a gigantic Death Star mothership.

But then – like Ubisoft – everything is in an open world, overloaded with small icons representing boring missions to run in a loop.

Strangely, you can also purchase a more advantageous digital version of Battle for Atlas, which allows you to unlock ships and additional weapons at a lower price. But you will not be able to play with plastic figures when you get tired of Starlink's repetitive structure.

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