| Shattered Suns | 
| From: Clear Crown Studios
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Seller: Dealz Electronics
Sales Rank: 14,851
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: real_time_strategy_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.7 x 0.7
MPN: 00003
Model: 181424000033
UPC: 181424000033
EAN: 0181424000033
ASIN: B000UXQGYQ
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | A new system of 'distributed economics' which offers the player even greater challenges | | • | Truly epic storyline, including non-linear story arcs, realistic characters and intriguing plot twists | | • | The ability to design and customize spaceships and space stations | | • | Flexibility in creating your ultimate galactic fleet | | • | Three-dimensional battles in space, allowing for maximum maneuverability and tactical planning |
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Product Description
One brave catain defies an empire as billions hunger for liberty. As hope is awakened, so too is wrath. In the face of Imperial power, some will fight, many will surrender, and a few will betray all. Change your definition of RTS games forever. Don't just watch the story unfold; live it! Recruit your forces, enlist your allies, and choose your battles in a completely interactive campaign of epic depth. Discover battle tactics as you've never experienced them before with fleets of space ships clashing in all three dimentions. Redefine strategy as the orbits of planets and moons bring once distant enemy stations within range of your largest base. You'll never see RTS games the same way again.
Amazon.com
Shattered Suns is a sci-fi adventure that redefines the real-time strategy (RTS) genre. In it players take on the role of Captain Max, a rebel leader caught on the wrong side of an imperial interstellar land grab and wage a campaign of guerilla warfare in space against the superior firepower and numbers of an ever-expanding empire. This is done by utilizing the game's unprecedented levels of mechanical customization. To succeed ships, space stations, outposts and armadas not only can be, but must be customized for specific and changing tactical situations. In addition, because the game's battles take place over the vast distances of space and utilize orbiting heavenly bodies and man-made satellites as staging areas, players must master the art of spatial orientation and deep space tactics or risk being isolated in the void, face to face with a mortal enemey and with no chance of rapid reinforcement.
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Engage in thrilling 3-D space combat.
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Customize your ships and armadas.
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Strategize from a compact campaign view.
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And lead epic battles on a large scale.
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In the Beginning: The Cradle of Life
Cushioned between two giant nebulae there lies a fertile region of space known as the 'Cradle of Life,' from which all known life emerged on seven distinct worlds. Each world developed in isolation until one species on each planet developed the intelligence and technology to explore beyond its terrestrial boundaries. After thousands of years of space travel, all seven intelligent species developed a long history of trade, immigration and cultural exchange. But all this changed with the development of space gateway technology, which allowed ships to travel vast distances instantaneously. Thanks to gateways each species was able to unite nearby star systems into groups called sectors. Gradually, eight distinct sectors emerged, settling more than twenty different star systems. Later as gateways advanced, entire sectors were united through inter-sector gateways. Before long, all eight sectors could be easily reached. As inter-sector travel became possible, so did the temptation for conquest. Weaker star systems once protected by the vast distances of space suddenly found themselves within easy reach of powerful tyrants hungry for ever more territory. Because of this, some say that the Imperial Wars were inevitable and thus also the saga of Shattered Suns.
The Present: The Rise of Empire and Captain MaxAs the second Imperial War comes to a close, the known universe is carved up between two great empires. The last free sector falls to the overwhelming might of empire and a rebellion is born. Fleeing from the conquering occupation forces, one brave captain finds the means to hide and survive until the time is right to fight again. You are that captain, Captain Max, and with the help of the underground resistance, the black market and countless brave citizens longing for the return of their freedoms, you begin to build a new fleet of freedom fighters. Your hopes are that his minor rebellion will grow into a massive uprising, but that hope is far from certain. Unknown to you is that new undiscovered technologies may lay hidden that will play a part for good or ill in the uprising and that eventually betrayal may yet have just as significant a part to play.
Game Features- Truly epic storyline, including non-linear story arcs, realistic characters and intriguing plot twists
- The ability to design spaceships and space stations
- Flexibility in creating your ultimate galactic fleet
- Three-dimensional battles in space, allowing for maximum maneuverability and tactical planning
- A new system of 'distributed economics' which offers the player even greater challenges
System Requirements:
| Minimum Specifications: | Recommended Specifications: | | OS: | Windows 2000/XP with SP2/Vista with SP1 | | Processor: | 1 GHz processor | 2 GHz | | RAM: | 512 MB | 1+ GB | | Hard Drive Space: | 2 GB of Free Space | | Video RAM: | 128 MB video RAM | 256 MB video RAM | | DVD-ROM: | Quad-speed (4x) or faster DVD-ROM drive | | Other: | Pixel Shader 2.0 support
DirectX 9.0c compatible video and audio
Keyboard and mouse required |
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