Supplement Four
SOC-14 5K
Playing one right now. Beautiful game. Reminds so much of High Guard and Honor Harrington.
It's called NEXUS: THE JUPITER INCIDENT.
Awesome story. Great gameplay. The solar systems are designed to show you just how freakin' BIG a system is. It's amazing.
Check out some screen shots here.
It's a third-person perspective game. You generally operate one or a few large spacecraft. For example, you begin the game in this huge, hulking Stiletto class corvette.
This thing's got these large, rotating sections a la Babylon 5 spacecraft (although later, artificial gravity is obtained), and it takes the ship something like 4 years to travel from Jupiter to Pluto (that changes too, as an alien stardrive is found).
I can't say enough how breath-takingly beautiful this game is. The lighting effects are incredible. You'll see lights, explosions, drive glow on your ships. Sensor dishes will swing around. The ship will maneuver to bring weapon to bear on enemies, and weapon turrets will swing towards their targets. Hangar bay doors will open to allow the launch of your fighters.
There's a neat role-playing aspect to the game as well. You play a single character: Marcus Cromwell. The first child born in space.
There's a rich history to the game. You can read all it's detail in the ship's library, or you can ignore it if that's not your cup of tea.
And, as for the ship, you can control every aspect of it. You decide when ECM is used. You decide which weapons target which enemies. You decide when to "go active" with your active sensors. When you've got a few weeks to spare, and a dock to tie up at, you can have the yard dogs mount newer and better equipment on your ship: weapons, sensors, drives, batteries, generators, fighters, Commando landing craft...and much more.
The fun in this game is micro-managing the ship, whether it's deciding which equipment to mount or where it moves and what system is used during a space battle.
But, if you're more of a point and click kinda player, you can have your support officer (the computer AI) make most of those decisions for you.
If this game sounds cool to you, you can find it cheap. It's been out for a while, and I know you'll find it for $19.99 or less.
Great game, though. Glad I found it.
It's definitely got this extremely cool, Traveller-ish, Honor Harrington-ish, High Guard-ish feel to it.
I recommend it.
It's called NEXUS: THE JUPITER INCIDENT.
Awesome story. Great gameplay. The solar systems are designed to show you just how freakin' BIG a system is. It's amazing.
Check out some screen shots here.
It's a third-person perspective game. You generally operate one or a few large spacecraft. For example, you begin the game in this huge, hulking Stiletto class corvette.
This thing's got these large, rotating sections a la Babylon 5 spacecraft (although later, artificial gravity is obtained), and it takes the ship something like 4 years to travel from Jupiter to Pluto (that changes too, as an alien stardrive is found).
I can't say enough how breath-takingly beautiful this game is. The lighting effects are incredible. You'll see lights, explosions, drive glow on your ships. Sensor dishes will swing around. The ship will maneuver to bring weapon to bear on enemies, and weapon turrets will swing towards their targets. Hangar bay doors will open to allow the launch of your fighters.
There's a neat role-playing aspect to the game as well. You play a single character: Marcus Cromwell. The first child born in space.
There's a rich history to the game. You can read all it's detail in the ship's library, or you can ignore it if that's not your cup of tea.
And, as for the ship, you can control every aspect of it. You decide when ECM is used. You decide which weapons target which enemies. You decide when to "go active" with your active sensors. When you've got a few weeks to spare, and a dock to tie up at, you can have the yard dogs mount newer and better equipment on your ship: weapons, sensors, drives, batteries, generators, fighters, Commando landing craft...and much more.
The fun in this game is micro-managing the ship, whether it's deciding which equipment to mount or where it moves and what system is used during a space battle.
But, if you're more of a point and click kinda player, you can have your support officer (the computer AI) make most of those decisions for you.
If this game sounds cool to you, you can find it cheap. It's been out for a while, and I know you'll find it for $19.99 or less.
Great game, though. Glad I found it.
It's definitely got this extremely cool, Traveller-ish, Honor Harrington-ish, High Guard-ish feel to it.
I recommend it.
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