Hirogen Full Race

Description
Unexpected. That\'s the first thought that came to mind when I saw a Full race mod sitting in the files que. Full race mods can usually be seen coming a very long way off by breadcrumb trails of screenshots, teasers and ships leading up to a full release. This had little to cause any expectations of it being released. True, there were some screenshots released...

But that was in 2008. Avon says that he started this off when he was \"laid up in bed ill\" back then, and after tinkering with it occasionally he recently decided to finish it off and release it.

So, what do we have? Well, you\'ve got the obligatory full set of ships and stations required to call this a race mod. The Hirogen like capturing things, and boy do they have a setup well suited to doing that. I suppose I shouldn\'t really spoil it, but the Hirogen have a special weapons outfit for capturing that puts the Klingons and the Borg combined to shame without being massively overpowered. They do balance in with the other stock races reasonably well. Also, thanks to the fact that some of the heavy warships that your likely to have with you in a battle are equipped with the tractor beam you actually do stand some prospect of keeping prizes taken from the enemy.

In addition to the high quality models & textures on the ships, there is also a pretty nice GUI as you can see from the screenshots, along with music, admirals log pictures, wireframes and a pretty good AI. All in all, this is an incredibly complete full race mod of a quality that many of us aspire to. It\'s certainly well worth grabbing a copy.

- Freyr