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Sword of the Stars Complete Collection

Rating: 4.8 (24 votes cast)
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System requirements

  • OS: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista™
  • CPU: 1.5 GHz Intel® Pentium® or comparable AMD® Processor
  • RAM: 1 GB
  • Video: 128 MB RAM DirectX® 9x compatible video card
  • Available Hard Disk Space: 3 GB
  • Sound: DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card
  • Multiplayer: LAN or 56 Kbps Internet connection or faster
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    FEATURES

    Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection is the original Sword of the Stars games and the three expansions Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows and Argos Naval Yard.
    It is the year 2405, and human scientists have discovered a new technology that allows travel from star to star at speeds faster than light. But tragedy strikes, as Earth is ravaged by an alien force. The dawning of a new era was stymied by a grim, new reality...

    NEW EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

    • 3 new multiplayer galaxy maps - Sinusoid, Helix, and Mountain
    • 1 new scenario, "The Antiquarians"
    • 6 new player avatars, one per race
    • Additional loading splash screens, detailing more of the SotS universe


    Sword of the Stars:

    • 4 distinct races - Human, Hiver, Tarkas and Liir
    • A powerful state of the art engine delivers breathtaking graphics and robust game play
    • Each race has a unique mode of transport between star systems, creating very different styles of play
    • Over 150 distinct technologies to research on a dynamic tech tree
    • Over 40 weapons from six different weapon classes
    • Players can design and build ships from three size classes - Destroyer, Cruiser, and Dreadnought
    • Up to 8 players can play against the AI and one another over LAN or online
    • Choose from a variety of scenario campaigns to play alone or with friends


    Born of Blood:

    • Play as the merciless Zuul Slavers with over 90 brand-new ship sections and their unique drive system – the Tunnel Drive
    • Over 25 additional technologies
    • 15 more weapons you can add to your ship designs
    • New ship sections for the original four races, including: War, Projector, Boarding, and a new type of defense satellite – the Torpedo Defense Platform
    • 4 additional galactic encounters, a new grand menace, plus 3 unique scenarios and 6 original maps
    • New game features, including Slavery, Trade Routes, and Diplomatic Communications


    A Murder of Crows:

    • A New Sixth race – The Morrigi
    • New Ship Sections - Over a dozen new ship sections
    • Unique ‘Grav Flock’ Drive System for Morrigi
    • 15 new weapons
    • 27 new technologies and the new Xeno-Cultural and Drones tech tree
    • Drone carrying ships in all three size classes
    • Construction ships, a variety of orbital stations, spy ships, police cutters, and more
    • A whole new set of GUI enhancements and additions

    Argos Naval Yard

    • 19 new technologies
    • Over 75 new ship section to build
    • 10 new weapons / 3 New Scenarios
    • Single Player / Multi-player with co-op scenario maps

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    CUSTOMER REVIEWS

    18th Aug

    By DavidGil

    The Complete Collection for Swords of the Stars packs a heck of a lot of gameplay and it is highly recommended to be sure. Most of the gameplay comes from the battles and designing ships though (the ship isn't the same as Galactic Civilizations, as you can only choose hulls for three sections of a ship). So, don't expect a strong economic model or anything and there's no campaign here, though there are scenarios and randomly generated maps. They can be massive or small.

    One great addition though is the randomised tech tree for each game. The core techs are available all of the time, but others like shields are randomised. The tech you lack can be acquired via other means, but there's no guarantee.

    Overall, definitely recommended.

    6th Aug

    By MickP

    Im a late convert to this series. Infact I only started playing this game earlier this year - when the Ultimate Edition came out.

    Simply put it is the best Space 4x game there is. Ive played GC, Pax Imperia, MoO & MoO 2. Plus a few Ive probably forgetton about. What makes this game special for me is the depth of strategy decision making it presents.

    Couple this with a lean approach to managing many aspects of your space empire, through a very efficient interface. Add to those, a great space ship combat engine, a fantastically detailed tech. tree that changes the option you have at your disposal every time you play. The AI has not shown any weaknesses, but I havent played enough to notice any flaws and Ive played over 100 games.

    The game also has a powerful and ever evolving ship design system that allows you to customs dozen of ship hull types with a hundred or more ship components to match any taste in configuration you may care to have. Even the race/faction setup and sandbox options give you more choices than you're likely to ever get round to playing.

    And I havent even tried MP yet!

    With all these features there really is no excuse why this game (and version) shouldnt be in your collection.

    This game is simply fun, fun, fun. The clever design ensures that you wont be spending you time micromanaging for hours and battling for seconds.

    Cant recommend this enough.

    21st Jun

    By Varsi

    I tend to compare Sword of the Stars with Master of Orion. Unlike MOO there's barely any micromanaging at the planets but way more to do with ships.
    While the empire management is still done in turn based fashion the battles are fought in real time.

    And for me SotS is all about those battles. Tactics can go from just focusing fire on one target to destroying certain ship sections or even guns. And it looks very pretty when two fleets of ships exchange fire in every direction!

    Some may not like the "candy" look of the graphics and the voice acting is not quite like with bigger studios but those are minor things when rest of game is full of fun stuff.

    If you liked Masster of Orion and the like, this is a game you should not miss.
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