Разработчик: Ntronium Games
Описание
Conquer the Galaxy In This ‘4x’ Strategy Game.
Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions. Explore new star systems, where you may encounter tachyon storms, psychic plants, primitives or find abandoned alien technology. Diplomacy is of utter importance in being successful. Make pacts and alliances, make threats or ask for favours - and when the time is right, replace diplomacy by space combat and fight it out in real-time 3D.
The trade system lets you trade valuable commodities between both your own and alien worlds. Alien relics, rare minerals, tourists, or even natural anti-matter, your freighters will carry them all. Although the game is complex, and the possible strategies endless, powerful help and advisor features, help you get up to speed quickly. Unlike many games in this genre, Armada 2526 Gold Edition focuses on providing a game that can be finished in a reasonable time, and emphasizes battle and strategy over economic micro-management. All with one purpose: to emerge victorious and conquer the galaxy with your armada.
Key Features
- Turn based star map for fleets, colonies, research and diplomacy.
- Customizable map size and number of players. Map designer included.
- 18 animated alien races to play and battle against.
- Full featured diplomacy system.
- More than 150 technology items to research.
- Trade system plus espionage and special ops system.
- 3D Real-time battle system for fighting huge battles.
- More than a hundred beautifully crafted ship models.
- Multiplayer by LAN or PBEM
- Tough A.I. opponents.
- Includes the expansion Supernova !
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *:Windows XP with SP2
- Processor:2,4 Ghz
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:256 MB DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card with Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0 support
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card
- OS *:Windows 7
- Processor:3,0 Ghz Dual Core
- Memory:3 GB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card with Pixel/Vertex Shader 3.0 support
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
It's old but it's alright.
Don't let the hours fool you. I had to use compatibility shortcut so playtime doesn't reflect. It's probably hundreds of hours, including playing from years ago back in the day.
This 4X game is a bit of an acquired taste. At glance, it looks "MOO2"-like but doesn't "feel" like that or other 4X conquer-the-galaxy games. It looks/feels clunky at times, like sort of mish-mashed together, like it was put through heck just to get it to work. Overall, the game has serious fun to be had, and with serious flaws that requiring sucking it up to accept.
For starters, most of the screenshots show all sorts of "3D" ships, stations, ground forces battling. It's not even like that or that type of game. This is no Sins of a Solar Empire or Sword of the Stars, not even close! Rather, this is much closer the type of 4X like MOO2 (Master of Orion 2, for the uninitiated), Interstellar Genesis, or Stars in Shadow are. You'll spend 95% of the gameplay on the 2D map of space. I think there is only 1 screenshot that really shows that.
Now while you have the traditional 4X galactic map, you don't see your "ships" on them. Rather, you see a side-ways "Dorito" type icon that represents you have a ship or ships at a system. You click on the system, go to the Fleet tab, to see the ships you have and a picture of them, and how many of each type. Click on the destination system, then select which ships/count of, you wish to send. Easy.
From there, another "Dorito" will spawn, with a pathway laid out with dots marking how far it will go each turn, then starts flying through space with a vapor trail behind it, each turn. When it gets there, it spends about a turn "slowing down" just to enter orbit. But easy.
Interaction with the rest of the map is unconventional in that you can't just click on a system to "see what's in it". Rather, you hover your mouse over it and a small screen pops-up with text and some animation showing information, like its Habitability rating, does it have an asteroid belt, or Oort cloud, what star type, any unique features. Even flying to this has no such screen. Baffling. But if you colonize or build something there, then it will show a screen with more graphics and information, like how many plots there are to build structures on (similar to Galactic Civilizations I but far less eye-candy). Most of the system are not whole solar systems but just 1 planet. Kind of disappointing.
Managing building structures I found quite easy and addicting. As your colony grows, the options open up to build more things. If something is ready to upgrade, it has a blue arrow pointing up. Cool! Click on it. You'll find yourself cycling through your planets looking for new things to "upgrade" and then "upgrade even more!". Something about the design works really well, it's like one of those games that throws rewards at you. If you don't want to bother with any of that though, you can set it to "Auto-Manage" and forget about it.
A few cool things are you can ZOOM IN/OUT though. So if you want a closer look, just zoom in. Your mouse cursor acts like a magnifying class, and you'll notice comets, asteroids, or ships flying around (you'll realize it's not a "Dorito" but just a generic 2D craft as an 'icon', not your actual ship(s) ), you can opt to say zoomed out and a the pop-up will show a "zoomed in" version with the star system fully animated and full of activity. Nice touch.
One might be concerned about lag for all that popping-up but it's extremely fast, no waiting, it seems hard-coded to be that way so no lag or anything. It's super-instant. There's lots of sound FX bleeping/blooping.
The space map can be HUUUGE with the ability to exceed the largest size of 250x250. It's massive. You'll think "could this be larger than the actual Milky Way?". Just hundreds of stars. I played this game probably hundreds of hours before getting the Steam version (using Win7 compatibility). I had a massive galactic empire with hundreds of ships, several dozens of worlds, and still barely dented exploring the galaxy. The galaxy is full of various anomalies, wormholes, unique places some you can build and receive bonuses at. For example, if you settle a planet around a Neutron Star you can build powerful "Neutronium" warships.
There's a wide array of ships. They're not customizable though. Still, there's everything from explorers, destroyers, carriers, speciality ships, missile cruisers, plague ships, planet bombarders, arks, and world destroyers, all of different types too. They're pretty wild. The "Mother Ark" is like your "Homeworld" type mothership, that acts as it's own travelling colony, like a mobile base extending your fleet range, and able to colonizing any planet without being "used up" doing so. The "X Brain" is a ship built around a large brain that protects your ships from psychic attack. The "Roid Roller" rolls asteroids into planets. The "Plaguewinger" launches plagues and poisons at a planet. It goes on.
Combat has an auto-resolve or you can opt to have it play out in a 3D "scene". It's similar to Galactic Civilizations 2 where there is minimum input from the player (more than GalCiv 2 at least), and then everything just flies at each other blasting away. It's brainless. Notably, it's laggy too. The graphics are too "over-baked". For example, some ships have a "metallic sheen" or "reflective" graphics but it's extreme to the point it looks bad and runs bad. It's just brainless chaos, makes no sense, takes too long to load, too long to play out, too laggy, janky.
You'll reach a point where it's too much of a pain to deal with trying to manage what everything is doing, or trying to do, and just start using auto-resolve from the 2D map.
Separately, the game has a "skirimish" mode just for creating 3D battles.
Tons of tech to research, but flawed. While the different sectors of tech reminds me of Birth of the Federation 4X game, where you can research different things simultaneously and allocate resources, similarly, it takes FOREVER to research anything. The game can be played with drop-down seleting limited number of turns which I think the drop-down max is 250 or some laughably small amount (minimum is 10 lol) but you can make it whatever. I play with 99999 turns cap.
The game has a broken economy, copying from bad 4X games, where the economy seems set to a "negative income" rate by default. There's almost nothing for you to adjust to control spending. You basically have to stay on your planet and never build anything. lol! Huge flaw in my opinion. Building 1 ship will bankrupt your measly fledgling empire. You really have to be in for "the long haul" or just use the in-game console codes to "add money" (look it up)...
This is how it should be: you make money. As your empire grows, your wealth grows, allowing you to build more and increase that wealth. Expanding means growing your population that pays taxes that cover expenses. Who says the cost of growth would outweigh the income? Given in a sci-fi setting where technologies are intended to "improve" QoL, being leveraged to create more efficient materials, miracle ones, and all that, QoL should constantly be improving without imaginary costs applied keeping ppl down in a 20th or 21st Century mindset.
MOO2 did a great job in that as your empire grew and became more advanced, so did your wealth also grow - to where you were raking in so much gold, you could stop worry about it. Armada 2526 and some other 4X games, seem to think a "Type I" or "Type II" on the Kardashev scale, would be mired in 19th Century robber-baron or rampant early 20th Century economics where "The Great Depression" never ended.
Starting a new game you pick your race, I like how there's different "versions" of each, lots of alien races, diplomacy, and animations. Befriend them, trade, negotiate, or wipe them out. Your call. And listen to a decent soundtrack while doing so, with some songs very soundrack-y to Enigma-like mellow at times.
Игры похожие на Armada 2526 Gold Edition
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Ntronium Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 66 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 69% положительных (70) |