Sword of the Stars


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12 screenshots added on Aug 28, 2006
Easily scan budgets, fleets, explored systems, enemy colonies, and a turn-by-turn history of everything you've done"
The battle map "sensor" overview proves essential if you need to divvy up your fleet during a big battle"
You can only tweak a handful of variables, but - remarkably - Sword of the Stars never gets repetitive"
While the damage display is clever, sometimes it's difficult to get an immediate sense of who's overwhelming whom"
Hit the "research" button and you visit a cylindrical room with "hub" areas and interlinked tech nodules"
Once you've covered the basics of industry and terraforming, you'll want to drop the motherload of military tech on your ships' loadouts"
Thanks to its simple (yet elegant) visuals, low-end rigs will run Sword of the Stars at maximum detail with room to spare"
Damage is visual - the more you're "sparking," the nearer you are to FUBAR’d"
Each race has its own unique ship designs, from 290 total interchangeable parts"
Each race's home planet is resource laden and able out-of-the-gate to build ships in one or two turns"
Build colony ships, add military escort and/or fuel ships, then set off in search of habitable worlds"
A fleet of attack ships line-up and launch rockets at a distant wave of enemy fighters just beyond visual range"
10 screenshots added on Aug 03, 2006
Ships are made of three distinct sections: front, middle and aft. Lose the middle, and well..."
Once a planet's defenses are down you must pound the surface into submission with nukes"
If nothing else, this game is a living, breathing screenshot factory"
Hiver squadrons will quickly work to surround and incapacitate your fleet"
All of your fancy front-facing shields are for naught if you let your enemy flank"
All those fancy formations you tweaked on the drawing board go out the window during the heat of battle"
A ship's strength is told by its overall size. More mass equals more weapons"
Protect your key capital ships with deflector shields, but remember your enemies will know they're important"
The entire Hiver fleet could warp through these portals in the next turn - take it the hell out"
This is the Strategic Interface, where you'll find immediate visual feedback on your space empire"
6 screenshots added on Apr 07, 2006
From what we've seen so far, this strategy game seems to emphasize the real-time combat - which is fine by us"
Remember when Gulliver got lashed to the ground by all those Lilliputians?"
These rather low-res rockets seem to be mashing into each other"
Nuke it from space... it's the only way to be sure"
Each race has its own sensibility about ship design"
Navigating the complicated paths to new systems is part of the fun"
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