In Armada you follow the story line that sets itself against the backdrop of the late war against the spike headed dominion, aliens who wouldn't find it hard getting jobs as 'cheese pokers' in a cheese factory. Despite this the actual game has very little to do with them, instead it's direct at the pending invasion by the Borg - those guys that look like traffic lights set to green at night, with a hint of red.

You get to play as one of four races in the sequence of Federation, Klingon, Romulan and finally Borg - one after the other. Each race throws around 5 missions at you and provides for an unheard of amount of originality and perspective on the whole storyline and universe. So not only do you get to see what it's like to send the enterprise into battle you also get to see what it's like to assimilate it.

Be a BORG, you know you want to!

The first thing we look at in any game is the controls, Armada being a rich C&C clone obviously takes full advantage of modern Mouse control. You can use a Joystick or a pad, but as ever with C&C clones, you simply won't get the fast paced control reactions you require in order to truly master the game on anything other than a Mouse.

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