We started to update the client and we noticed the announcement not to skip the tutorial since it cannot be restarted at this point, so we moved careful ahead, since we know this a complex game, we need to do the tutorial.

You start the game by creating your empire name, customizing the colors of the empire and flag. Here you also introduce your email once again for alerts, a neat feature where it sends mail when you are attacked or other important things are happening with your empire.

We landed on the tutorial planet and a cute English women voice started to introduce us with the tutorial to establish a colony. We began by entering a skirmish with our tanks with some pirates after we destroyed them we found an unknown mineral, and from here began a complex system that we were astonished of the amount of details that we found here. While we discovered this unknown mineral, we employed our scientists to research and from here we started to design our new hulls for tanks and configuring the new hull for new tank. We continued to employ officers for our factory to start to produce our new prototype tank with the metal we just discovered and research, and based on hull and armor we designed trough the interface. Many people, the casual people will probably get lost here, but fans of the Empire Games like Master of Orion, Mankind and others, will enjoy this.

Your colony is formed of course from people and their happiness and skills will help you develop your empire and of course get money from taxes.

While we started to build more structures to develop our colony further, we were taught how to employ an agent to scout for the pirate base on this planet, to destroy it. We prepared our assault force of tanks, and waited for our agent to discover and infiltrate the pirate base.

After we destroyed the enemy factory, our agents told us that the pirate presence on the planet we are, is to powerful so we will need a contingency plan, where we advised to defend our Command Center until the colonist are transferred, and man we were attacked by ground, and air by these pirates until finally we ran away. After this we choose to go directly to the live servers, and now our empire grows.

The game has more content then what we experienced from the tutorial, imagine being able to build colonies from scratch on planets from the solar systems available, trading and opening relations with other players, forging and destroying empires, in persistent world that lives when you are not in game too, but thank good we receive emails if something bad happens, which is great.

Games like Beyond Protocol are targeted to a relative small audience, where people like to go in every detail, in our case developing an empire, researching materials and new technology, designing ground, air, and space units, and conquering solar systems for power and glory, alone or with an alliance.

In the end this game has a lot of potential and every time we play it, it gets better and better, and while it wont appeal to many people, it has and will develop a dedicated fan base, and probably will survive well financially and as a good MMORTS game.  Kudos to the developers for making such an interesting and complex MMORTS game. Now what are you waiting? Register for open beta here, and check it out!