The one of the most undervalued games made by russian gamedev, in my opinion.
Good story, stylish design, great music, big open world with own secrets.

The game about Artificial Intelligence, enclosed in small indestructible ball, which controls a large battle machines, designed to exterminate all what it considers as enemy.
But these robots doesnt want to kill all humans, it's too mainstream, moreover they would worship humans if they had them on their abandoned planet. But no one forbids them to fight each other. Or to trade. Or to be a courier.

I strictly recommend you to also to play the first part of this game (AIM, 2004). In some aspects, it better than this part, better story, in particular. Sadly, we can't buy it on Steam.

On the other side - this game is a bit buggy. But i hope, it will be fixed in future.

Neither "Recommending" or "Not recommending"
There's a distinction between a review and a recommendation and both of them shouldn't be mixed together.
This is a review.


Setting is fantastic, the spirit of sci-fi is strong in A.I.M. universe.
But other than exploring the sectors, it's very tedious to actually play it after getting a hang of it. Interaction with enviroment is rather limited.

There are many gliders and upgrades to pick from, but they must be grinded for. Gliders and their equipment in hangar can be sold at the same price they were bought for, making amount of money (energy crystals) a substitute for an "experience bar" that measures character's (mechminds) progress besides the ranking system.

Controls are decent, and after getting certain add-ons and upgrading engine - it's really nice to actually glide over the sectors.

Combat is fun around places with busy trafic but it never reaches a scale of war. Just random dogfights. AI isn't challenging either.

Clan managment is rather limited (having two sliding bars for adjusting role ratio) and having clan doesn't provide any actual benefit as it simply serves as a plot point / plot key. Recruiting clan members just reduces things to shoot at, eventually eliminating the only source of action there is in game.

Side quests are mostly unmemorable (there are few that reveals interesting bits of lore).

While trading has the same patern acros all sectors and it's satisfying overall, each structure still has to be visited seperatly while searching for good oportunity to profit before starting trading runs, since there's no remote way to monitor stock even in captured structures that belong to the clan and that's bothersome. Without presence of the player in the sector economy eventually colapses - AI traders can't sustain sector on their own.

Graphics are fine.

Localisation could've been done better.

Had to disable music since it plays in loops due to some bug.
Experienced movement bugs as well.
Game crashes from time to time.

I first bought the game about 1 year ago but couldn't stop it from crashing straight after the tutorial. I decided now to revisit the game and spent some time on the forums to get it to work. a simple download is all it needs http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=265182801

So happy as Larry I tried playing the game again. The problem is the missions get bugged out and often my ship refuses to move rendering me a sitting duck. Re-starting the game usually fixes it but sometimes you have to do it 2 or 3 times.

I reckon it would be a good game if it was working properly but as it is I wouldn't recommend spending money on it no matter how cheap.

Game is not bad, but they never bothered to fix awful bugs that would result in 99% of times full on crash of game and not being able to alt+f4 it nor use task manager to end the task. It's same buggy mess as it was when i had the CD release.

A.I.M. was one of the best games I've ever played, however, I think this one needs a bit more.
Still, great game. I strongly recommend to play the original game before even thinking of buying this one.
So far, the only bug I've found happens when you enter the Destroyed Sector; game crashes.

Russia needs to make more games. Seriously.
This, along with Space Rangers 2, are games I'm dying to see re-made, or taken as inspirations and expanded on. Along with Hardwar.

Although the 'lore' and backstory here is a bit bizarre even for Science-Fiction fans, the gameplay is very fun, as you control sort of a Spaceship that was forced to be a Hovercraft.
Most of the bad things in the game are due to the likely low-budget (compared to its ambition) and tech limitations of the time. The game can get VERY repetitive halfway through, with weird difficulty spikes depending on how you play it. It's definitely not very friendly towards the player - which if you are a 90s gamer, you are very likely to appreciate.

If you like to be in a simulated world where every entity is trying to accomplish something (which may include murdering you and all your friends), where you are free to roam and progress as you wish, and don't mind some very clunky gameplay, this might be worth trying.

You can build your own clan and slowly repaint the map, and turn a very active area into a very dead area..or very friendly area. You can become overpowered by getting the right mix of gear, and wonder if being able to fly through the whole map was intended. You can brainwash every AI mind in the world into your loyal subjects, then watch as they all die when a random overpowered enemy from another area step into your territory looking for blood.

I really love 1C Entertainment for promoting and publishing this type of game. Come'on Russians, get back to making sci-fi simulation games!! :D

I bought it for the nostalgia and because it was on sale for a low price.

This game did not run well on my laptop but it was quite smooth on my desktop computer, though I had to turn the graphics level down or it would lag in some places. I could not play the tutorial as it crashed when I tried but it didnt matter to me since I've played it before so I skipped the tutorial. Make sure to run it in compatibility mode for Windows 98/ME and run as administrator. The game has worked well so far and I have encountered no bugs(apart from the tutorial crashing) which was quite surprising.

AIM 2 clan wars is a game where you take control of a glider as a mechmind and explore different sectors of the world. You can change or upgrade your glider in many ways which is quite fantastic. You can perform a variety of missions and earn energy crystals which are used like currency. The player belgons to the fifth generation of mechminds who are the only ones who can create clans and travel between sectors.

The player can 'convince' other mechminds(make them join your side) by spending energy crystals. The greater the rating of the mechmind, the higher the cost of convincing. You can use these convinced mechminds to capture bases and eventually control a sector once your clan becomes dominant.

The combat of the game can be a little furstrating but challenging since the enemies tend to jump around and evade your attacks and aiming is a bit difficult. There are a variety of weapons to chose from which deal various amounts of damage and use different levels of energy. You can also puchase and use rockets, bombs and mines which deal a lot of damage.

Overall the game is quite fun and can be addicting once you get the hang of it. I highly recommend you try this game.

Well I've played this game long before steam (2011/12 perhaps), and I got it again for the nostalgia. Pretty good if you're into the genre and otherwise fun to play as well. Safe to say it will run on any potato of a PC you might have. Expect a lot of crashes though.

I have played the first one for years without issues, this one on the other hand the controls are stupidly sensitive even with it turned down, i often end up spinning on the spot in battles which is infuriating. but the biggest issue of all is any time i die i am just greeted with a black screen it doesn't do anything, i htt all the buttons on the keyboard and mouse but nothing. even when i try to use CTRL, ALT + DEL to get task manager up the game screen doesn't minimize so i can close it i have to restart my pc which in turn causes me to lose any unsaved progress.

Too bad SkyRiver studios doesnt exist anymore because we need a third part of this masterpiece.